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The 2018 Pulitzer Prize Finalist in Drama

Finalist: The Minutes, by Tracy Letts

A shocking drama set in a seemingly mundane city council meeting that acidly articulates a uniquely American toxicity that feels both historic and contemporary.

Nominated Work

The Minutes

By

Tracy Letts

Tracy Letts' "The Minutes" premiered at Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago (where Letts is a longtime ensemble member) on November 9, 2017.

In "The Minutes," Tracy Letts’s scathing new comedy about small-town politics and real-world power, the writer who brought you "August: Osage County" exposes the ugliness behind some of our most closely-held American narratives while asking each of us what we would do to keep from becoming history’s losers.

-- from Steppenwolf Theatre's website

 

Biography

Tracy Letts is a Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning playwright, actor, and ensemble member of the Steppenwolf Theatre Company. He is the author of plays "Linda Vista," "Mary Page Marlowe," "The Scavenger’s Daughter," "Superior Donuts," "August: Osage County"(Pulitzer Prize, Tony Award), "Man from Nebraska" (Pulitzer Prize finalist), "Bug," and "Killer Joe." Also an actor, he received the 2013 Tony Award for Best Actor in Edward Albee’s "Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" TV and film credits include "Lady Bird," "The Lovers," "Christine," "Elvis and Nixon," "The Big Short," HBO’s "Divorce," and two seasons as Senator Lockhart on Showtime’s "Homeland."

Winners

Prize Winner in Drama in 2018:

Martyna Majok

An honest, original work that invites audiences to examine diverse perceptions of privilege and human connection through two pairs of mismatched individuals: a former trucker and his recently paralyzed ex-wife, and an arrogant young man with cerebral palsy and his new caregiver. Drama

Finalists

Nominated as finalists in Drama in 2018:

Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

For a contemporary take on a classic morality play that offers a playful and colloquial examination of the human condition in the face of mortality.

The Jury

Dominic Papatola(Chair)

Theater Critic

Karen d’Souza

Theater Writer

Quiara Alegría Hudes*

playwright

Linda Winer

Theater Critic

Winners in Drama

2017

Lynn Nottage

For a nuanced yet powerful drama that reminds audiences of the stacked deck still facing workers searching for the American dream.
2016

Lin-Manuel Miranda

A landmark American musical about the gifted and self-destructive founding father whose story becomes both contemporary and irresistible.
2015

Stephen Adly Guirgis

A nuanced, beautifully written play about a retired police officer faced with eviction that uses dark comedy to confront questions of life and death.
2014

Annie Baker

A thoughtful drama with well-crafted characters that focuses on three employees of a Massachusetts art-house movie theater, rendering lives rarely seen on the stage.
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2018 Prize Winners

Investigative Reporting

Staff of The Washington Post

For purposeful and relentless reporting that changed the course of a Senate race in Alabama by revealing a candidate’s alleged past sexual harassment of teenage girls and subsequent efforts to undermine the journalism that exposed it.
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