The Eugene O’Neill Theater Center presented its 22nd Monte Cristo Award to award-winning playwright and screenwriter Lynn Nottage. Nottage, who was in residence at the O’Neill in 2006 while working on her play Ruined, is the first (and remains the only) woman to have two Pulitzer Prizes for Drama – the first for Ruined, and the second for her 2015 play Sweat. Theater Pizzazz was on the scene at Capitale in NYC for photos with Conor Weiss.
The celebratory evening featured special performances by Quincy Tyler Bernstine, Tonya Pinkins, Jason Bowen, Gabby Beans, Stacey Sargeant, CJ Wilson, Robbie Gordy and Joyce Sylvester, among others. Additional guests expected for the evening – Michael Douglas, Tom Viertel, Carlo Alban, Terrence Archie, Krystal Joy Brown, Mario Cantone, Patch Darragh, Angel Desai, Jerry Dixon, Jessica Frances Dukes, Ben Durocher, Dave Harris, Anna K. Jacobs, John Jellison, Isabel Keating, Chalia La Tour, Robert Lenzi, Jevares Myrick, Nicole Ari Parker, Michael Potts, Laila Robins, Ryan Spahn, Jason Tam, Daniel J. Watts and others.
Photos by: Conor Weiss
