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The 2007 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Drama
For a distinguished play by an American author, preferably original in its source and dealing with American life, Ten thousand dollars ($10,000).

Rabbit Hole, by David Lindsay-Abaire

Lee Bollinger and David Lindsay-Abaire

Columbia University President Lee C. Bollinger (left) presents David Lindsay-Abaire with the 2007 Pulitzer Prize in Drama.

Winning Work

Rabbit Hole

By

David Lindsay-Abaire

Becca and Howie Corbett have everything a family could want, until a life-shattering accident turns their world upside down, and leaves the couple drifting perilously apart. Rabbit Hole charts their bittersweet search for comfort in the darkest of places, and for a path that will lead them back into the light of day. Tony Award® winner Daniel Sullivan (Brooklyn Boy, Sight Unseen, Proof) directs this world premiere by David Lindsay-Abaire (Fuddy Meers, Wonder of the World, Kimberly Akimbo) featuring a sensational cast: Tyne Daly (a Tony winner for Gypsy and a six-time Emmy Award® winner for "Judging Amy" and "Cagney & Lacey"), John Gallagher Jr. (Kimberly Akimbo), Mary Catherine Garrison (Assassins), Cynthia Nixon (the Emmy-winning star of "Sex and the City") and John Slattery (Three Days of Rain and Night and Her Stars at MTC).

(From www.mtc-nyc.org)

Biography

Rabbit Hole marks David Lindsay-Abaire’s fourth play produced by MTC (Manhattan Theatre Club). His first, Fuddy Meers, premiered in 1999 and transferred to the Minetta Lane Theatre for a commercial run. It has since received more than 300 productions around the country and abroad, including on London’s West End. Wonder of the World was produced at MTC after premiering at Washington DC’s Woolly Mammoth Theatre, where it was nominated for a Helen Hayes Award as Outstanding New Play of the Year.Kimberly Akimbo was commissioned and premiered by South Coast Rep and received the L.A. Drama Critics Circle Award for Playwriting, three Garland Awards and the Kesselring Prize before it opened at MTC in 2003.

David is also currently working on the Broadway-bound musicals High Fidelity and Shrek. In addition to his work in theatre, David is writing the screen adaptation of the novel Inkheart by Cornelia Funke for Newline Features as well as a screen adaptation of his Kimberly Akimbo for Dreamworks.

David is a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College and the Juilliard School, as well as a proud member of New Dramatists, the Dramatists Guild and the WGA.

 

 

Finalists

Nominated as finalists in Drama in 2007:

Eisa Davis

Quiara Alegria Hudes

Rinde Eckert

The Jury

Ben Brantley(chair )

chief drama critic

Karen D'Souza

drama critic

Kimberly W. Benston

Francis B. Gummere Professor of English

Rohan Preston

theater critic

Paula Vogel*

playwright and professor of English

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