Brooklyn Native Wins Pulitzer For Refugee-Inspired Drama

Shazia Khan NY1 04/21/2009 00:27

Brooklyn-born playwright Lynn Nottage couldn't have written a better ending. On Monday, she won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for drama for her play "Ruined". "I'm processing it as we speak, I'm incredibly excited," said Nottage.

Set in the war torn Democratic Republic of Congo, "Ruined" is a story of survival -- a story of one local business woman and the girls she shelters amid civil unrest.

Nottage traveled to Uganda in 2004 and interviewed Congolese refugee women for inspiration for her play.

"The stories that I heard were utterly horrific and I felt that it was necessary to share them with the world so that the world understood what was happening to the women," said Nottage.

"Ruined" premiered at Chicago's Goodman Theatre last fall and transferred off-Broadway to the Manhattan Theatre Club earlier this year.

Nottage's play marks the sixth Pulitzer prize for the Manhattan Theatre Club, joining David Auburn's "Proof", John Patrick Shanley's "Doubt" and David Lindsay-Abaire's "Rabbit Hole."

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