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"Nottage is one in every of our most interesting playwrights, a wise, empathetic, and bold storyteller who tells a narrative an viewers will not expect."—Time Out New York

"Lynn Nottage's paintings explores depths of humanness, the overlapping complexities of race, gender, tradition and history—and the startling simplicity of desire—with a transparent tenderness, with humor, with compassion."—Paula Vogel, Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright

In her first new play because the severely acclaimed Ruined, Lynn Nottage examines the legacy of African american citizens in Hollywood in a dramatic stylistic departure from her prior paintings. Fluidly incorporating movie and video parts into her writing for the 1st time, Nottage's comedy tells the tale of Vera Stark, an African American maid and budding actress who has a tangled dating along with her boss, a white Hollywood megastar desperately greedy to carry onto her profession. Stirring audiences out of complacency via tackling racial stereotyping within the leisure undefined, Nottage highlights the ambiguity of black actors in Thirties Hollywood whereas leaping again and ahead in time and placement during this uniquely theatrical narrative. By the way in which, Meet Vera Stark premiered in long island in 2011 and may obtain productions at Los Angeles's Geffen Playhouse in fall 2012 and Chicago's Goodman Theatre and The Lyric level corporation of Boston in spring 2013.

Lynn Nottage's performs comprise the Pulitzer Prize–winning Ruined; Intimate ApparelFabulation, or the Re-Education of Undine; Crumbs from the desk of Joy; Las Meninas; Mud, River, Stone; Por'Knockers; and POOF!