Fairview, by Jackie Sibblies Drury - The Pulitzer Prizes
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For a distinguished play by an American author, preferably original in its source and dealing with American life, Fifteen thousand dollars ($15,000).

Fairview, by 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.

Jackie Sibblies Drury accepts the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Drama from Columbia University President Lee Bollinger. (Eileen Barroso/Columbia University)

Winning Work

Fairview

By Jackie Sibblies Drury

Official trailer.

The Frasier family is gearing up for Grandma’s birthday, and Beverly needs this dinner to be perfect. But the silverware’s wrong, the radio’s on the fritz, Jasmine is drinking, Dayton isn’t helping, Keisha’s a teenager, and Tyrone might not show up at all!

Following her “inventive,” “pulse-pounding” We Are Proud to Present… (The New York Times, Time Out New York, and New York Magazine Critics’ Picks), Jackie Sibblies Drury and director Sarah Benson show us that nothing’s funnier than “family drama.”

-- from Soho Rep. website

Biography

Jackie Sibblies Drury is a Brooklyn-based playwright. Her critically acclaimed play Fairview premiered this past summer at Soho Rep. Other plays include We Are Proud to Present a Presentation About the Herero of Namibia, Formerly Known as South West Africa, From the German Sudwestafrika, Between the Years 1884-1915, Really, and Social Creatures. Drury's plays have been presented by New York City Players and Abrons Arts Center, Soho Rep, Victory Gardens, Trinity Rep, Woolly Mammoth, Undermain Theatre, InterAct Theatre, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Company One, and The Bush Theatre in London, among others. Her work has been developed at The Bellagio Center, Sundance, The Ground Floor, Manhattan...

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Finalists

Nominated as finalists in Drama in 2019:

What the Constitution Means to Me, by Heidi Schreck

Dance Nation, by Clare Barron

The Jury

Misha Berson (Chair)

theater critic, teacher, author and lecturer, Seattle, Wa.

Gina Gionfriddo

playwright, New York, N.Y.

Henry D. Godinez

Professor of Theatre, Northwestern University; resident artistic associate, Goodman Theatre

Wendy C. Goldberg

Artistic Director, National Playwrights Conference, Eugene O’Neill Theatre Center

Peter Marks

chief theater critic, The Washington Post

Winners in Drama

Primary Trust, by Eboni Booth

English, by Sanaz Toossi

Fat Ham, by James Ijames

The Hot Wing King, by Katori Hall

2019 Prize Winners

Staff of The Wall Street Journal

Lorenzo Tugnoli of The Washington Post

Darrin Bell, freelancer