Donald Margulies (1954– )
Playwright and educator who won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Dinner with Friends.
His other plays include Found a Peanut (1984), Sight Unseen (1991), What’s Wrong
with This Picture? (1994), The Model Apartment (1995), Collected Stories (1996),
Two Days (2003), Brooklyn Boy (2004), and Time Stands Still (2009).
James McLure (1939–2006)
Playwright and screen and television writer. His plays include Max and Maxie
(1992), Ghost World (1993), Southern Christmas (1995), and Iago (2003).
Terrence McNally (1939– )
Playwright on gay themes.
Charles L. Mee (1938– )
Playwright, political historian, and author. His plays include Big Love (2000),
bobrauschenbergamerica (2001), Hotel Cassiopeia (2006), and Cardenio (2008, with
Stephen Greenblatt). His memoir, A Nearly Normal Life (1999) discusses the
effects of polio (contracted at age 14) on his life. Complete texts of Mee’s plays
are available free of charge on his website, the (re)making project <www.charles-
mee.org>.
Stephen Metcalfe (1953– )
Writer for stage, screen, and television and film director. His plays include Vikings
(1981), Pilgrims (1985), White Men Dancing (1987), Write Me Letters (1992, com-
panion to Pilgrims), and Loves & Hours (1993).
Cherríe Moraga (1952– )
Chicana playwright, poet, and essayist whose writings include The Last Genera-
tion: Poetry and Prose (1993) and Heroes and Saints and Other Plays (1994).
Marsha Norman (1947– )
Playwright and educator. Her works include the plays Traveler in the Dark (1984),
Loving Daniel Boone (1993), and The Last Dance (2003), as well as the book and
lyrics for musical The Secret Garden (1991) and the libretto for The Color Purple
(2005).
Lynn Nottage (1964 – )
African American playwright who won the 2009 Pulitzer for Ruined. Her other
plays include Poof (1993), Crumbs from the Table of Joy (1995), Mud, River, Stone
(1998), Las Meninas (2002), Intimate Apparel (2003), and Fabulation, or the Re-
Education of Undine (2004). She received a MacArthur Foundation (“Genius”)
Grant in 2007.
Suzan-Lori Parks (1964 – )
African American playwright, screenwriter, and essayist. Her dramas include
Devotees in the Garden of Love (1991), The America Play (1990–1993), and Father
Comes Home from the Wars (Parts 1, 8 & 9) (2009). In 2001, she received a Mac-
Arthur Foundation (“Genius”) Grant.