Lambda Literary Award for Drama
| Lambda Literary Award for Drama | |
|---|---|
| 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.
Honorees
| Year | Author | Title | Result | Ref. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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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