Lambda Literary Award for Drama | |
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Awarded for | Literary Award for Drama |
Sponsored by | Lambda Literary Foundation |
Date | Annual |
Website | lambdaliterary |
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.
Year | Author | Title | Result | Ref. | |
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1995 | Tony Kushner | Angels in America: Perestroika | Winner | [1] | |
Cherrie Moraga | Heroes and Saints & Other Plays | Finalist | [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 Fish | Finalist | [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 Britches | WInner | [3] | |
Michael Kearns | Acting=Life | Finalist | [3] | ||
Rosemary Keefe Curb | Amazon All-Stars | ||||
Holly Hughes | Clit 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 Closet | Finalist | [4] | ||
Chay Yew | Porcelain and A Language of Their Own | ||||
Jonathan Larson | Rent | ||||
Lillian Schlissel | Three Plays by Mae West | ||||
1999 | Holly Hughes | O Solo Homo | Winner | [5] | |
Jim Grimsley and David Roman | Mr. Universe and Other Plays | Finalist | [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 Was | Winner | [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 Davy | Five Lesbian Brothers | Finalist | [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 | Prok | Winner | [8] | |
Ben Hodges | Forbidden Acts | Finalist | [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 Miller | 1001 Beds | Winner | [10] | |
Steven Fales | Confessions of a Mormon Boy | Finalist | [10] | ||
Victor Bumbalo | Questa | ||||
2008 | Steve Susoyev and George Birimisa (eds.) | Return to the Caffe Cino | Winner | [11] [12] | |
Dan Bernitt | Dose: Plays & Monologues | Finalist | [11] | ||
Victor Bumbalo | Niagara Falls | ||||
2009 | Carolyn Gage | The Second Coming of Joan of Arc | Winner | [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 Crowley | Winner | [14] | |
Bonnie J. Morris | Revenge of the Women's Studies Professor | Finalist | [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 Play | Winner | [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 Shaw | Winner | [18] | |
Anton Dudley | Letters to the End of the World | Finalist | |||
Jonathan Tolins | Secrets of the Trade | ||||
Jon Marans | The Temperamentals | ||||
Madeleine George | The Zero Hour | ||||
2013 | David Greenspan | The Myopia and Other Plays | Winner | [19] | |
Jon Marans | A Strange and Separate People | Finalist | [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 Farm | Winner | [20] [21] [22] | |
Adelina Anthony | Las Hociconas: Three Locas with Big Mouths and Even Bigger Brains | Finalist | [21] | ||
Djola Branner | sash & trim and other plays | ||||
2015 | Robert O'Hara | Bootycandy | Winner | [23] [24] [25] [26] | |
Daniel Pearle | A Kid Like Jake | Finalist | [24] | ||
Adelina Anthony | The Beast of Times | ||||
Samuel D. Hunter | The Whale | ||||
Steve Yockey | Wolves | ||||
2016 | Tanya Barfield | Bright Half Life | Winner | [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/Bootycandy | Winner | [30] [31] | |
Lois Fine | Freda and Jem’s Best of the Week | Finalist | [32] | ||
Topher Payne | Perfect Arrangement | ||||
2018 | Audrey Cefaly | The Gulf | Winner | [33] [34] | |
Scott C. Sickles | Composure | Finalist | [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 Circle | Winner | [36] | |
Daniel Alexander Jones | Black Light | Finalist | [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 House | Finalist | [41] [42] | ||
Jordan Harrison | The Amateurs | ||||
2021 | Yilong Liu | The Book of Mountains and Seas | Winner | [43] [44] [45] | |
Jacqueline Goldfinger | Babel | Finalist | [46] | ||
Liza Birkenmeier and Jill Sobule | F*ck7thGrade | ||||
Sarah Einspanier | House Plant | ||||
R. Eric Thomas | Safe Space | ||||
2022 | R. Eric Thomas | Mrs. Harrison | Winner | [47] | |
Daniel Alexander Jones | Love Like Light | Finalist | [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 | Duecentomila | Finalist | [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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