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Lynn Nottage

Lynn Nottage

American Playwright

Born: 1964

Me People Theatre Think Women You

Related authors: Arthur Miller August Wilson David Henry Hwang George C. Wolfe Howard E. Koch Katori Hall Lorraine Hansberry Sam Shepard

I do see myself as an old-fashioned storyteller. But there's always a touch of the political in my plays. Lynn Nottage

Myself Political See Touch Always Storyteller Old-Fashioned Plays

My parents are avid consumers of art, collectors of African American paintings, and have always gone to the theater. My mother has always been an activist, too. As long as I can remember, we were marching in lines. Lynn Nottage

For me, the first thing is to tell a good story. Lynn Nottage

Good Me First Tell Good Story First Thing The First Thing Story Thing

It's very important for me to have dialogues across racial lines. Lynn Nottage

Me Important Lines Very Racial Across

Winning the second Pulitzer firmly places me in conversation with this culture. Lynn Nottage

Me Conversation Culture Winning Firmly Places Second Pulitzer

In my family history, there are generations of women who were abandoned by men. It's one of the themes of my family. Lynn Nottage

Family History Women Men Abandoned Generations Were Family History Themes Who

Who wants to see the same play again? I certainly don't want to write the same play again and again. Lynn Nottage

See Write Same Want Wants Again Certainly Who Play

I know what I'm trying to say, so I'm always open to learning how to say it. Lynn Nottage

Learning Say Open Know Always How Trying

The act of saying what you do helps shape you as an artist. Lynn Nottage

Saying You Shape Artist Act Helps

My fears about where theater is going - it's the Hollywood model, where people are chasing the almighty dollar and making commercial decisions based on nothing more than generating income for themselves and their theaters. Lynn Nottage

There was no way I was going to write about Africa and not include the triumphant continuity of life that had also been part of my experience there. It's not just war and famine all the time. Lynn Nottage

Life War Time Experience Way About Triumphant Write Had Part Also Been Continuity Going Just Africa Famine Include

American audiences very rarely deal with material outside their borders. Lynn Nottage

Borders Rarely Outside Deal Material Audiences Very American American Audiences

Even in Congo, where conflicts are happening, people have births, weddings, deaths, and celebrations. Lynn Nottage

People Weddings Deaths Celebrations Where Happening Conflicts Congo Even

I'm always hyperaware of the way in which working people are portrayed on the stage. Lynn Nottage

People Stage Way Always Which Working Working People Portrayed

I wouldn't say I see my work as having a political ideology. Lynn Nottage certainly has a political ideology. I think that the work is an extension of who I am, but I don't think that when I write the play I'm looking to push the audience one way or another. Lynn Nottage

The person whose work introduced me to the craft was Lorraine Hansberry. The person who taught me to love the craft was Tennessee Williams. The person who really taught me the power of the craft was August Wilson, and the person who taught me the political heft of the craft was Arthur Miller. Lynn Nottage

If you're looking at the people who head the institutions, there are very few African Americans or people of colour. I'm talking about the major theatres that position themselves as serving all audiences. What you find is, by and large, people who are shaping what we see, and the people who are the tastemakers are white. Lynn Nottage

You People Looking Few White Find See About Colour Shaping Head Major Institutions Talking Audiences Very American African African Americans Themselves Who Large Serving Position

It's much easier to conjure characters strictly from your imagination than to have to think about whether you're representing people in a truthful way. Lynn Nottage

You People Think Imagination Strictly Way Easier Characters About Truthful Than Representing Whether Much Your Conjure

I think of myself as a healing artist. Lynn Nottage

Myself Healing Think Artist

It is such a joy to join a legacy of amazing female playwrights who have managed to break through the glass ceiling and reinvigorate the Broadway stage by bringing a fresh and necessary perspective. Lynn Nottage

Joy Amazing Perspective Stage Playwrights Broadway Join Through Glass Female Fresh Ceiling Legacy Break Who Necessary Bringing

In senior year at college, Paula Vogel was my playwriting teacher; she is the first person to introduce me to the notion that a woman could actually forge a career in the theatre. Up until then, the possibility seemed remote and inaccessible, as I had very few role models who directly touched my life. Lynn Nottage

Life Teacher Me Woman Theatre College My Life First Year Few Playwriting Possibility Introduce Seemed Touched Directly Could Had Remote Until She First-Person Up Very Forge Role Person Role Models Models Senior Senior Year Inaccessible Paula Then Notion Who Actually Career

I am a storyteller by trade. Lynn Nottage

Trade Am Storyteller

In listening to the narratives of the Congolese, I came to terms with the extent to which their bodies had become battlefields. Lynn Nottage

Listening Become Had Terms Narratives Came Which Bodies Extent

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