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The 2023 Pulitzer Prize Finalist in Drama

Finalist: The Far Country, by Lloyd Suh

An account of emigrants who traveled from China to San Francisco and suffered in the shadows of a strange new world, a historical portrait of the ruthless dynamic of immigration that is also timely.

Nominated Work

The Far Country

By

Lloyd Suh

Official teaser trailer. (Atlantic Theater Company)

DIRECTED BY ERIC TING

NOVEMBER 17 – JANUARY 1, 2023

LINDA GROSS THEATER

An Atlantic commissioned play by Steinberg Playwright Award recipient & Guggenheim fellow Lloyd Suh (The Chinese Lady) directed by Obie Award winner Eric Ting (We Are Proud to Present…).

An intimate epic that follows an unlikely family’s journey from rural Taishan to the wild west of California in the wake of the Chinese Exclusion Act.

The Far Country runs 2 hours including one 10 minute intermission.

-- from the Atlantic Theater Company's production page

Biography

Lloyd Suh is the author of The Chinese Lady (recently produced with Ma-Yi at The Public Theater), Bina's Six Apples (produced this spring at Alliance Theatre and Children's Theatre Company), Charles Francis Chan Jr.'s Exotic Oriental Murder Mystery, The Wong Kids in the Secret of the Space Chupacabra Go!, Franklinland, and more, including The Heart Sellers, which will premiere at Milwaukee Rep in February. His work has been produced at theaters across the country, including Ensemble Studio Theatre, Magic Theatre, National Asian American Theatre Company, Denver Center, ArtsEmerson, Long Wharf and others, and internationally at the Cultural Center of the Philippines and with PCPA at the Guerilla Theatre in Seoul, Korea. Awards include the Guggenheim Fellowship, Herb Alpert Award, Horton Foote Prize, and Helen Merrill Award. He was elected in 2016 to the Dramatists Guild Council.

Winners

Prize Winner in Drama in 2023:

Sanaz Toossi

A quietly powerful play about four Iranian adults preparing for an English language exam in a storefront school near Tehran, where family separations and travel restrictions drive them to learn a new language that may alter their identities and also represent a new life. Drama

Finalists

Nominated as finalists in Drama in 2023:

Aleshea Harris

An ambitious drama, inspired by Sophocles, of a community shaped by the trauma of a nameless war they have been dealing with for generations, and the ancestors they mourn, a solemn but also joyful work.

The Jury

David John Chávez(Chair)

Chair, American Theatre Critics Association; Correspondent, San Jose Mercury News

Vinson Cunningham

Staff Writer, The New Yorker

Soraya Nadia McDonald

Senior Culture Critic, Andscape

Heidi Schreck

Playwright, Brooklyn, N.Y.

Kristina Wong

Performance Artist/Playwright, Los Angeles, Calif.

Winners in Drama

2022

James Ijames

A funny, poignant play that deftly transposes "Hamlet" to a family barbecue in the American South to grapple with questions of identity, kinship, responsibility, and honesty.
2021

Katori Hall

A funny, deeply felt consideration of Black masculinity and how it is perceived, filtered through the experiences of a loving gay couple and their extended family as they prepare for a culinary competition.
2020

Michael R. Jackson

A metafictional musical that tracks the creative process of an artist transforming issues of identity, race, and sexuality that once pushed him to the margins of the cultural mainstream into a meditation on universal human fears and insecurities.
2019

Jackie Sibblies Drury

A hard-hitting drama that examines race in a highly conceptual, layered structure, ultimately bringing audiences into the actors’ community to face deep-seated prejudices.
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2023 Prize Winners

Commentary

Kyle Whitmire of AL.com, Birmingham

For measured and persuasive columns that document how Alabama's Confederate heritage still colors the present with racism and exclusion, told through tours of its first capital, its mansions and monuments–and through the history that has been omitted.
Investigative Reporting

Staff of The Wall Street Journal

For sharp accountability reporting on financial conflicts of interest among officials at 50 federal agencies, revealing those who bought and sold stocks they regulated and other ethical violations by individuals charged with safeguarding the public’s interest.
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