Lambda Literary Award for Drama

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Lambda Literary Award for Drama
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The Lambda Literary Award for Drama is an annual literary award, presented by the Lambda Literary Foundation to an LGBTQ-related literary or theatrical work. Most nominees are plays, or anthologies of plays; however, non-fiction works on theatre or drama have also sometimes been nominated for the award.

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Honorees

Lambda Literary Award for Drama winners and finalists
YearAuthorTitleResultRef.
1995 Tony Kushner Angels in America: PerestroikaWinner [1]
Cherrie Moraga Heroes and Saints & Other PlaysFinalist [1]
Paul Rudnick Jeffrey
Carolyn Gage Second Coming of Joan of Arc
David Drake The Night Larry Kramer Kissed Me
1996 Tony Kushner Slavs (Thinking About the Longstanding Problems of Virtue and Happiness)Winner [2]
Guinevere Turner and Rose Troche Go FishFinalist [2]
Terrence McNally Love! Valour! Compassion!
Michael Kearns T-Cells and Sympathy
Eric Lane and Nina Shengold (eds.)The Actor's Book of Gay and Lesbian Plays
1997 Sue-Ellen Case Split BritchesWInner [3]
Michael Kearns Acting=LifeFinalist [3]
Rosemary Keefe Curb Amazon All-Stars
Holly HughesClit Notes
Mart Crowley Three Plays by Crowley
1998 Moises Kaufman Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde Winner [4]
Harry M. Benshoff Monsters in the ClosetFinalist [4]
Chay Yew Porcelain and A Language of Their Own
Jonathan Larson Rent
Lillian Schlissel Three Plays by Mae West
1999 Holly HughesO Solo HomoWinner [5]
Jim Grimsley and David RomanMr. Universe and Other PlaysFinalist [5]
D. A. Miller Place For Us
Sarah Schulman Stagestruck: Theater, Aids, and the Marketing of Gay America
Eve Ensler The Vagina Monologues
2000 Craig Lucas What I Meant WasWinner [6]
Terrence McNally Corpus Christi Finalist [6]
Laurence Senelick Lovesick
Deb Margolin Of All the Nerve
Steven Watson Prepare for Saints: Gertrude Stein, Virgil Thomson, and the Mainstreaming of American Modernism
2001 John Cameron Mitchell and Stephen Trask Hedwig and the Angry Inch Winner [7]
Lisa Kron , Maureen Angelos, Dominique Dibbell, Peg Healey and Babs DavyFive Lesbian BrothersFinalist [7]
Alina Troyano I, Carmelita Tropicana
Tom Donaghy The Beginning of August
Paul Rudnick The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told
2002 No award presented
2003 No award presented
2004 Brian Drader ProkWinner [8]
Ben Hodges Forbidden ActsFinalist [8]
C. E. Gatchalian Motifs & Repetitions & Other Plays
Mart Crowley The Band Plays
Robert Schanke Women in Turmoil: Six Plays
2005 Doug Wright I Am My Own Wife Winner [9]
Donald Reuter Fabulous!Finalist [9]
David Gere How to Make Dances in an Epidemic
Sharon Bridgeforth love conjure/blues
Claude J. Summers The Queer Encyclopedia of Music, Dance and Musical Theater
2006 No award presented
2007 Tim Miller1001 BedsWinner [10]
Steven Fales Confessions of a Mormon BoyFinalist [10]
Victor Bumbalo Questa
2008 Steve Susoyev and George Birimisa (eds.)Return to the Caffe CinoWinner [11] [12]
Dan Bernitt Dose: Plays & MonologuesFinalist [11]
Victor Bumbalo Niagara Falls
2009 Carolyn Gage The Second Coming of Joan of ArcWinner [13]
Dan Bernitt Phi Alpha Gamma Finalist [13]
Martin Duberman Radical Acts: Collected Political Plays
Scott Schofield Two Truths and a Lie
Vanda Vile Affections
2010 Mart Crowley The Collected Plays of Mart CrowleyWinner [14]
Bonnie J. Morris Revenge of the Women's Studies ProfessorFinalist [14]
Kate Moira Ryan and Linda S. Chapman The Beebo Brinker Chronicles
2011 Maureen Angelos , Dominique Dibbell, Peg Healey and Lisa Kron Oedipus at Palm Springs: A Five Lesbian Brothers PlayWinner [15] [16]
Octavio Solis Lydia Finalist [17]
Daniel Talbott Slipping
Tarell Alvin McCraney The Brother/Sister Plays
Bryden MacDonald With Bated Breath
2012 Peggy Shaw A Menopausal Gentleman: The Solo Performances of Peggy ShawWinner [18]
Anton Dudley Letters to the End of the WorldFinalist
Jonathan Tolins Secrets of the Trade
Jon Marans The Temperamentals
Madeleine George The Zero Hour
2013 David Greenspan The Myopia and Other PlaysWinner [19]
Jon Marans A Strange and Separate PeopleFinalist [19]
A. Rey Pamatmat Edith Can Shoot Things and Hit Them
C. E. Gatchalian Falling in Time
A. Rey Pamatmat Thunder Above, Deeps Below
2014 Michel Marc Bouchard Tom at the FarmWinner [20] [21] [22]
Adelina Anthony Las Hociconas: Three Locas with Big Mouths and Even Bigger BrainsFinalist [21]
Djola Branner sash & trim and other plays
2015 Robert O'Hara BootycandyWinner [23] [24] [25] [26]
Daniel Pearle A Kid Like JakeFinalist [24]
Adelina Anthony The Beast of Times
Samuel D. Hunter The Whale
Steve Yockey Wolves
2016 Tanya Barfield Bright Half LifeWinner [27] [28]
Jeanine Tesori and Lisa Kron Fun Home Finalist [29]
Taylor Mac Hir
Deborah Salem Smith Love Alone
Bathsheba Doran The Mystery of Love and Sex
2017 Robert O'Hara Barbecue/BootycandyWinner [30] [31]
Lois Fine Freda and Jem’s Best of the WeekFinalist [32]
Topher Payne Perfect Arrangement
2018 Audrey Cefaly The Gulf Winner [33] [34]
Scott C. Sickles ComposureFinalist [35]
Tom MacRae Everybody's Talking About Jamie
Trey Anthony How Black Mothers Say I Love You
Paula Vogel Indecent
2019 Mashuq Mushtaq Deen Draw the CircleWinner [36]
Daniel Alexander Jones Black LightFinalist [37]
Jen Silverman Collective Rage: A Play in Five Betties
Miranda Rose Hall Plot Points in Our Sexual Development
Erin Markey Singlet
2020 Michael R. Jackson A Strange Loop Winner [38] [39] [40]
Liza Birkenmeier Dr. Ride's American Beach HouseFinalist [41] [42]
Jordan Harrison The Amateurs
2021 Yilong Liu The Book of Mountains and SeasWinner [43] [44] [45]
Jacqueline Goldfinger BabelFinalist [46]
Liza Birkenmeier and Jill SobuleF*ck7thGrade
Sarah Einspanier House Plant
R. Eric Thomas Safe Space
2022 R. Eric Thomas Mrs. HarrisonWinner [47]
Daniel Alexander Jones Love Like LightFinalist [48]
storäe michele mama [rose.]
Kheven LaGrone Pillow Talk
L M Feldman Thrive, or What You Will {an epic}
2023 Ho Ka Kei (Jeff Ho)Iphigenia and the Furies (On Taurian Land) & Antigone: 方Winner [49]
kai fig taddei DuecentomilaFinalist [50]
Sikivu Hutchinson Rock ‘n’ Roll Heretic
Tom Ford (writer) and Alex Syiek (music and lyrics)The Show on the Roof
Hansol Jung Wolf Play
2024 James Ijames Fat Ham Winner [51]
Adam Meisner For Both Resting and Breeding Finalist [52]
Andrew Rincón I Wanna Fuck Like Romeo and Juliet
Milo Wippermann Joan of Arkansas
Harrison David Rivers the bandaged place

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