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Year
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Author (Dates)
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Prize Play
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2005
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John Patrick Shanley (1950- )
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Doubt, a parable (2004)
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2004
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Doug Wright (1963- )
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I Am My Own Wife (2003)
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2003
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Nilo Cruz (1960- )
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Anna in the Tropics (2002)
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2002
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Suzan-Lori Parks (1964- )
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Topdog/Underdog (2001)
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2001
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David Auburn (1970- )
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Proof (2000)
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2000
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Douglas Margulies (1955- )
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Dinner with Friends (1999)
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1999
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Margaret Edson (1961- )
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Wit (1998)
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1998
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Paula Vogel (1952- )
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How I Learned to Drive (1997)
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1997
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No Award
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|
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1996
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Jonathan Larson (1960-1996)
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Rent (1995)
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1995
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Horton Foote (1916- )
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The Young Man from Atlanta (1994)
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1994
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Edward Albee (1928- )
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Three Tall Women (1993)
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1993
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Tony Kushner (1956- )
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Angels in America: Millennium Approaches (1992)
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1992
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Robert Schenkkan (1917- )
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The Kentucky Cycle (1991)
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1991
|
Neil Simon (1927- )
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Lost in Yonkers (1990)
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1990
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August Wilson (1945- )
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The Piano Lesson (1989)
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1989
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Wendy Wasserstein (1950- )
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The Heidi Chronicles (1988)
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1988
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Alfred Uhry (1936- )
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Driving Miss Daisy (1987)
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1987
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August Wilson (1945- )
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Fences (1986)
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1986
|
No Award
|
|
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1985
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Stephen Sondheim (1930- ) for music and lyrics, and James Lapine (1949- ) for book
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Sunday in the Park with George (1984)
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1984
|
David Mamet (1947- )
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Glengarry Glen Ross (1983)
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1983
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Marsha Norman (1947- )
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'Night, Mother (1982)
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1982
|
Charles Fuller (1939- )
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A Soldier's Play (1981)
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1981
|
Beth Henley (Elizabeth Becker Henley) (1952- )
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Crimes of the Heart (1980)
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1980
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Lanford Wilson (1937- )
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Talley's Folly (1979)
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1979
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Sam Shepard (1943- )
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Buried Child (1978)
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1978
|
Donald Lee Coburn (1938- )
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The Gin Game (1977)
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1977
|
Michael Cristofer (1945- )
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The Shadow Box (1976)
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1976
|
Michael Bennett (1943-1987) for conception, choreography, and direction,
James Kirkwood, Jr. (1924-1989) and Nicholas Dante (1942-1991) for book,
Marvin Hamlisch (1944- ) for music, and Edward Kleban (1939-1987) for lyrics
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A Chorus Line (1975)
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1975
|
Edward Albee (1928- )
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Seascape (1974)
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1974
|
No Award
|
|
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1973
|
Jason Miller (1939- )
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The Championship Season (1972)
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1972
|
No Award
|
|
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1971
|
Paul Zindel (1936- )
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The Effects of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds (1970)
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1970
|
Charles Gordone (1925-1995)
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No Place to Be Somebody (1969)
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1969
|
Howard Sackler (1929-1982)
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The Great White Hope (1968)
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1968
|
No Award
|
|
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1967
|
Edward Albee (1928- )
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A Delicate Balance (1966)
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1966
|
No Award
|
|
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1965
|
Frank D. Gilroy (1925- )
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The Subject Was Roses (1964)
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1964
|
No Award
|
|
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1963
|
No Award
|
|
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1962
|
Frank Loesser (1910-1969) and Abe Burrows (Abram Solman Borowitz) (1910-1985)
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How to Succeed in Business without Really Trying (1961)
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1961
|
Tad Mosel (1922- )
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All the Way Home (1960)
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1960
|
Jerome Weidman (1913-1998) and George Abbott (1887-1995) for book,
Jerry Bock (1928- ) for music, and Sheldon Harnick (1924- ) for lyrics
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Fiorello! (1959)
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1959
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Archibald MacLeish (1892-1982)
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J. B. (1958)
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1958
|
Ketti Frings (aka Katherine Hartley Frings) (1915-1981)
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Look Homeward, Angel (1957),
based on Look Homeward, Angel: A Story of a Buried Life (1929) by Thomas Clayton Wolfe (1900-1938)
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1957
|
Eugene O'Neill (1888-1953)
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Long Day's Journey into Night (1956)
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1956
|
Albert Hackett (1900-1995) and Frances Goodrich (1890-1984)
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The Diary of Anne Frank (1955)
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1955
|
Tennessee Williams (1911-1983)
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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1954)
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1954
|
John Patrick (1903-1995)
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The Teahouse of the August Moon (1953)
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1953
|
William Inge (1913-1973)
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Picnic (1952)
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1952
|
Joseph Kramm (1915- )
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The Shrike (1951)
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1951
|
No Award
|
|
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|
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1950
|
Richard Rodgers (1902-1979), Oscar Hammerstein II (1895-1960), and Joshua Logan (1908-1988)
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South Pacific (1949)
|
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1949
|
Arthur Miller (1915- )
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Death of a Salesman (1948)
|
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1948
|
Tennessee Williams (1911-1983)
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A Streetcar Named Desire (1947)
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1947
|
No Award
|
|
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1946
|
Russel Crouse (1893-1966) and Howard Lindsay (1889-1968)
|
State of the Union (1945)
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1945
|
Mary Coyle Chase (1907-1981)
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Harvey (1944)
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1944
|
No Award
|
|
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1943
|
Thornton Niven Wilder (1897-1975)
|
The Skin of Our Teeth (1942)
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1942
|
No Award
|
|
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1941
|
Robert Emmet Sherwood (1897-1955)
|
There Shall Be No Night (1940)
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|
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1940
|
William Saroyan* (1908-1981)
|
The Time of Your Life (1939)
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1939
|
Robert Emmet Sherwood (1896-1955)
|
Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1938)
|
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1938
|
Thornton Niven Wilder (1897-1975)
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Our Town (1937)
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1937
|
Moss Hart (1904-1961) and George Simon Kaufman (1889-1961)
|
You Can't Take It with You (1936)
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1936
|
Robert Emmet Sherwood (1896-1955)
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Idiot's Delight (1935)
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1935
|
Zöe Atkins (1886-1958)
|
The Old Maid (1934)
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1934
|
Sidney Kingsley (1907-1995)
|
Men in White (1933)
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1933
|
Maxwell Anderson (1888-1959)
|
Both Your Houses (1932)
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1932
|
George Simon Kaufman (1889-1961), Morrie Ryskind (1895-1985), and Ira Gershwin (1896-1983)
|
Of Thee I Sing (1931)
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1931
|
Susan Glaspell (1882-1948)
|
Alison's House (1930)
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1930
|
Marcus Cook Connelly (1890-1980)
|
The Green Pastures (1929)
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|
1929
|
Elmer Leopold Rice (1892-1967)
|
Street Scene (1928)
|
|
1928
|
Eugene O'Neill (1888-1953)
|
Strange Interlude (1927)
|
|
1927
|
Paul Eliot Green (1894-1981)
|
In Abraham's Bosom (1926)
|
|
1926
|
George Kelly (1887-1974)
|
Craig's Wife (1925)
|
|
1925
|
Sidney Coe Howard (1891-1939)
|
They Knew What They Wanted (1924)
|
|
1924
|
Harvey Hatcher Hughes (1881-1945)
|
Hell-Bent fer Heaven (1923)
|
|
1923
|
Owen Gould Davis (1874-1956)
|
Icebound (1922)
|
|
1922
|
Eugene O'Neill (1888-1953)
|
Anna Christie (1921)
|
|
1921
|
Zona Gale (1874-1938)
|
Miss Lulu Bett (1920)
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1920
|
Eugene O'Neill (1888-1953)
|
Beyond the Horizon (1919)
|
|
1919
|
No Award
|
|
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1918
|
Jesse Lynch Williams (1871-1929)
|
Why Marry? (1917)
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*Declined Award |
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