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Blake Waters
Professor Fulton Burns
Stage Movement
21 January 2014

Tony Award for Best Play - 2013

Winner - Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike. Author: Christopher Durang
Nominees:
The Assembled Parties. Author: Richard Greenberg
Lucky Guy. Author: Nora Ephron
The Testament of Mary. Author: Colm Tibn
Tony Award for Best Play - 2012
Winner - Clybourne Park. Author: Bruce Norris
Nominees:
Other Desert Cities. Author: Jon Robin Baitz
Peter and the Starcatcher. Author: Rick Elice;
Venus in Fur. Author: David Ives
Tony Award Best Play - 2011
Winner - War Horse. Author: Nick Stafford;
Nominees:

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Good People. Author: David Lindsay-Abaire;

Jerusalem. Author: Jez Butterworth;
The Motherfucker with the Hat. Author: Stephen Adly Guirgis
Tony Award for Best play - 2010
Winner - Red. Author: John Logan
Nominees:
In the Next Room or the vibrator play. Author: Sarah Ruhl
Next Fall. Author: Geoffrey Nauffts
Time Stands Still. Author: Donald Margulies
Tony Award for Best Play - 2009
Winner - God of Carnage. Author: Yasmina Reza
Nominees:
Dividing the Estate. Author: Horton Foote
Reasons to Be Pretty. Author: Neil LaBute
33 Variations. Author: Moises Kaufman

Pulitzer Prize for Drama - 2013

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Winner - Disgraced by Ayad Akhtar

Finalists:
Rapture, Blister, Burn by Gina Gionfriddo
4000 Miles by Amy Herzog

Pulitzer Prize for Drama - 2012

Winner - Water by the Spoonful by Quiara Alegra Hudes
Finalists:
Other Desert Cities by Jon Robin Baitz
Sons of the Prophet by Stephen Karam
Pulitzer Prize for Drama - 2011
Winner - Clybourne Park by Bruce Norris
Finalists:
A Free Man of Color by John Guare
Detroit by Lisa DAmour
Pulitzer Prize for Drama - 2010
Winner - Next to Normal, music by Tom Kitt, book and lyrics by Brian Yorkey

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Finalists:
The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Diety by Kistoffer Diaz
Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo by Rajiv Joseph
In the Next Room or the vibrator play by Sarah Ruhl
Pulitzer Prize for Drama - 2009
Winner - Ruined by Lynn Nottage
Finalists:
Becky Shaw by Gina Gionfriddo
In the Heights by Lin-Manuel and Quiara Alegra Hudes
Obie Award for Best New American Play - 2013
Winners (Tie) - Detroit by Lisa DAmour and Grimly Handsome by Julia Jarcho
Obie Award for Best New American Play - 2012
Winner - 4000 Miles by Amy Herzog
Obie Award for Best New American Play - 2011
Winner - The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity by Kristoffer Diaz
Obie Award for Best New American Play - 2010
Winner - Circle Mirror Transformation and The Aliens by Annie Baker

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Obie Award for Best New American Play - 2009

Winner - Ruined by Lynn Nottage

Works Cited
Pulitzer Prizes. N.p., n.d. Web. 20 Jan. 2014. <http://www.pulitzer.org/bycat/Drama>.
Tony Awards. N.p., n.d. Web. 20 Jan. 2014. <https://www.tonyawards.com/en_US/
History/pastwinners/index.html>
Village Voice. N.p., n.d. Web. 20 Jan. 2014. <https://www.villagevoice.com/obies/search>

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