Lambda Literary Award for Drama

Lambda Literary Award for Drama
Lambda Literary Award for Drama
Awarded for	Literary Award for Drama
Sponsored by	Lambda Literary Foundation
Date	Annual
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The Lambda Literary Award for Drama is an annual literary award, presented by the Lambda Literary Foundation to an LGBT-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.

Winners and nominees[]

Year	Winner	Nominated
1988	No award presented
1989
1990
1991
1992
1993
1994	Tony Kushner, Angels in America: Perestroika	Paul Rudnick, Jeffrey David Drake, The Night Larry Kramer Kissed Me Cherrie Moraga, Heroes and Saints & Other Plays Carolyn Gage, Second Coming of Joan of Arc
1995	Tony Kushner, Slavs (Thinking About the Longstanding Problems of Virtue and Happiness) Guinevere Turner and Rose Troche, Go Fish	and , eds., The Actor's Book of Gay and Lesbian Plays Terrence McNally, Love! Valour! Compassion! Michael Kearns, T-Cells and Sympathy
1996	Sue-Ellen Case, Split Britches	Michael Kearns, Acting=Life , Amazon All-Stars Holly Hughes, Clit Notes Mart Crowley, Three Plays by Crowley
1997	Moises Kaufman, Gross Indecency: the Three Trials of Oscar Wilde	, Monsters in the Closet Lillian Schlissel, Three Plays by Mae West Chay Yew, Porcelain and A Language of Their Own Jonathan Larson, Rent
1998	Holly Hughes, O Solo Homo	Jim Grimsley and , Mr. Universe and Other Plays D. A. Miller, Place For Us Sarah Schulman, Stagestruck Eve Ensler, The Vagina Monologues
1999	Craig Lucas, What I Meant Was	Terrence McNally, Corpus Christi Laurence Senelick, Lovesick Deb Margolin, Of All the Nerve , Prepare for Saints: Gertrude Stein, Virgil Thomson, and the Mainstreaming of American Modernism
2000	John Cameron Mitchell and Stephen Trask, Hedwig and the Angry Inch	Paul Rudnick, The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told Lisa Kron, , , and , Five Lesbian Brothers Tom Donaghy, The Beginning of August Alina Troyano, I, Carmelita Tropicana
2001	No award presented
2002	No award presented
2003	Brian Drader, Prok	Ben Hodges, Forbidden Acts C. E. Gatchalian, Motifs & Repetitions & Other Plays Mart Crowley, The Band Plays , Women in Turmoil: Six Plays
2004	Doug Wright, I Am My Own Wife	, Fabulous! David Gere, How to Make Dances in an Epidemic , love conjure/blues Claude J. Summers, The Queer Encyclopedia of Music, Dance and Musical Theater
2005	No award presented
2006	Tim Miller, 1001 Beds	Victor Bumbalo, Questa Steven Fales, Confessions of a Mormon Boy
2007	and George Birimisa, eds., Return to the Caffe Cino	, Dose: Plays & Monologues Victor Bumbalo, Niagara Falls
2008	Carolyn Gage, The Second Coming of Joan of Arc	, Phi Alpha Gamma Martin Duberman, Radical Acts: Collected Political Plays , Two Truths and a Lie , Vile Affections
2009	Mart Crowley, The Collected Plays of Mart Crowley	Bonnie J. Morris, Revenge of the Women's Studies Professor Kate Moira Ryan and , The Beebo Brinker Chronicles
2010	, , and Lisa Kron, Oedipus at Palm Springs: A Five Lesbian Brothers Play	Tarell Alvin McCraney, The Brother/Sister Plays Bryden MacDonald, With Bated Breath Octavio Solis, Lydia , Slipping
2011	Peggy Shaw, A Menopausal Gentleman: The Solo Performances of Peggy Shaw	, Letters to the End of the World Madeleine George, The Zero Hour , The Temperamentals , Secrets of the Trade
2012	David Greenspan, The Myopia and Other Plays	C. E. Gatchalian, Falling in Time , A Strange and Separate People , Edith Can Shoot Things and Hit Them , Thunder Above, Deeps Below
2013	Michel Marc Bouchard, Tom at the Farm	, Las Hociconas: Three Locas with Big Mouths and Even Bigger Brains , sash & trim and other plays
2014	Robert O'Hara, Bootycandy^[1]	, The Beast of Times , A Kid Like Jake Samuel D. Hunter, The Whale Steve Yockey, Wolves
2015	Tanya Barfield, Bright Half Life^[2]	Jeanine Tesori and Lisa Kron, Fun Home Taylor Mac, Hir Deborah Salem Smith, Love Alone Bathsheba Doran, The Mystery of Love and Sex
2016	Robert O'Hara, Barbecue/Bootycandy^[3]	Lois Fine, Freda and Jem’s Best of the Week Topher Payne, Perfect Arrangement
2017	Audrey Cefaly, The Gulf^[4]	, Composure Tom MacRae, Everybody's Talking About Jamie Trey Anthony, How Black Mothers Say I Love You Paula Vogel, Indecent
2018	, Draw the Circle	Daniel Alexander Jones, Black Light Jen Silverman, Collective Rage: A Play in Five Betties , Plot Points in Our Sexual Development Erin Markey, Singlet
2019	Michael R. Jackson, A Strange Loop^[5]	, Dr. Ride's American Beach House Jordan Harrison, The Amateurs
2020	, The Book of Mountains and Seas	Jacqueline Goldfinger, Babel and Jill Sobule, Fck7thGrade* , House Plant , Safe Space

References[]

^ "Lambda Literary Awards laud best gay, lesbian and transgender books". Los Angeles Times, June 2, 2015.
^ "The Lambda Literary Awards Honor Hilton Als and Eileen Myles, Name Winners in 26 Categories". Slate, June 7, 2016.
^ "29th Annual Lambda Literary Award winners announced" Archived 2018-06-10 at the Wayback Machine. LGBT Weekly, June 13, 2017.
^ "Lambda Literary awardees include Carmen Maria Machado, John Rechy, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor". Windy City Times, June 5, 2018.
^ Vanderhoof, Erin (June 1, 2020). "Exclusive: The Winners of the 32nd Annual Lambda Literary Awards". Vanity Fair. Retrieved June 1, 2020.

External links[]

Lambda Literary Awards

[1] "Lambda Literary Awards laud best gay, lesbian and transgender books". Los Angeles Times, June 2, 2015.

[2] "The Lambda Literary Awards Honor Hilton Als and Eileen Myles, Name Winners in 26 Categories". Slate, June 7, 2016.

[3] "29th Annual Lambda Literary Award winners announced" Archived 2018-06-10 at the Wayback Machine. LGBT Weekly, June 13, 2017.

[4] "Lambda Literary awardees include Carmen Maria Machado, John Rechy, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor". Windy City Times, June 5, 2018.

[5] Vanderhoof, Erin (June 1, 2020). "Exclusive: The Winners of the 32nd Annual Lambda Literary Awards". Vanity Fair. Retrieved June 1, 2020.

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