Pulitzer Prize: Drama

Christchurch City Libraries lists literary prize winners and links to catalogue searches, but we may not hold copies of all titles mentioned.

The Pulitzer Prizes are annual awards for achievements in American journalism, letters, drama and music. The prizes have been awarded by the Pulitzer Prize Board at Columbia University since 1917.

See the other Pulitzer Prize categories winners and all the other literary prize winners we list.

2024

• Primary Trust by Eboni Booth Winner
• Here There Are Blueberries by Moisés Kaufman and Amanda Gronich
• Public Obscenities by Shayok Misha Chowdhury

2023

• English by Sanaz Toossi Winner
• On Sugarland by Aleshea Harris
• The Far Country by Lloyd Suh

2022

• Fat Ham, by James Ijames Winner
• Selling Kabul, by Sylvia Khour
• Kristina Wong, Sweatshop Overlord, by Kristina Wong

2021

• The Hot Wing King, by Katori Hall Winner
• Circle Jerk, by Michael Breslin and Patrick Foley
• Stew, by Zora Howard

2020

• A Strange Loop, by Michael R. Jackson Winner
• Heroes of the Fourth Turning, by Will Arbery
• Soft Power, by David Henry Hwang and Jeanine Tesori

2019

• Fairview Jackie Sibblies Drury Winner
• Dance Nation Clare Barron
• What the Constitution Means to Me Heidi Schreck

2018

• Cost of Living Martyna Majok Winner
• Everybody Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
• The Minutes Tracy Letts

2017

• Sweat Lynn Nottage Winner
• A 24-Decade History of Popular Music Taylor Mac
• The Wolves Sarah DeLappe

2016

• Gloria Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
• The Humans Stephen Karam
• Hamilton Lin-Manuel Miranda Winner

2015

• Between riverside and crazy Stephen Adly Guirgis Winner
• Father comes home from the wars (Parts 1, 2, 3) Suzan-Lori Parks
• Marjorie Prime Jordan Harrison

2014

• The flick Annie Baker Winner
• The (curious case of the) Watson Intelligence Madeleine George
• Fun home Lisa Kron and Jeanine Tesori

2013

• Disgraced Ayad Akhtar Winner
• Rapture, blister, burn Gina Gionfriddo
• 4000 miles Amy Herzog

2012

• Water by the spoonful Quiara Alegría Hudes

2011

• Clybourne Park Bruce Norris

2010

• Next to normal, music by Tom Kitt, book and lyrics by Brian Yorkey

2009

• Ruined Lynn Nottage

2008

• August: Osage County Tracy Letts

2007

• Rabbit Hole David Lindsay-Abaire

2006

• No award

2005

• Doubt, a parable John Patrick Shanley

2004

• I am my own wife Doug Wright

2003

• Anna in the Tropics Nilo Cruz

2002

• Topdog/Underdog Suzan-Lori Parks

2001

• Proof David Auburn

2000

• Dinner with friends Donald Margulies

1999

• Wit Margaret Edson

1998

• How I learned to drive Paula Vogel

1997

• No award

1996

• Rent Jonathan Larson

1995

• Young man from Atlanta Horton Foote

1994

• Three tall women Edward Albee

1993

• Angels in America: millennium approaches Tony Kushner

1992

• The Kentucky cycle Robert Schenkkan

1991

• Lost in Yonkers Neil Simon

1990

• The piano lesson August Wilson

1989

• The Heidi chronicles Wendy Wasserstein

1988

• Driving Miss Daisy Alfred Uhry

1987

• Fences August Wilson

1986

• No award

1985

• Sunday in the park with George music and lyrics Stephen Sondheim, book James Lapine

1984

• Glengarry Glen Ross David Mamet

1983

• Night Mother Marsha Norman

1982

• A soldier's play Charles Fuller

1981

• Crimes of the heart Beth Henley

1980

• Talley’s Folly Lanford Wilson

1979

• Buried child Sam Shepard

1978

• The gin game Donald L. Coburn

1977

• The shadow box Michael Cristofer

1976

• A chorus line conceived, choreographed and directed by Michael Bennett, with book by James Kirkwood and Nicholas Dante, music Marvin Hamlisch and lyrics Edward Kleban

1975

• Seascape Edward Albee

1974

• No award

1973

• That championship season Jason Miller

1972

• No award

1971

• The effect of gamma rays on man-in-the-moon marigolds Paul Zindel

1970

• No place to be somebody Charles Gordone

1969

• The great white hope Howard Sackler

1968

• No award

1967

• A delicate balance Edward Albee

1966

• No award

1965

• The subject was roses Frank D. Gilroy

1964

• No award

1963

• No award

1962

• How to succeed in business without really trying Frank Loesser and Abe Burrows

1961

• All the way home Tad Mosel

1960

• Fiorello! book Jerome Weidman and George Abbott, music Jerry Bock and lyrics Sheldon Harnick

1959

• J.B. Archibald MacLeish

1958

• Look homeward angel Ketti Frings

1957

• Long day’s journey into night Eugene O’Neill

1956

• Diary of Anne Frank Albert Hackett and Frances Goodrich

1955

• Cat on a hot tin roof Tennessee Williams

1954

• The Teahouse of the August Moon John Patrick

1953

• Picnic William Inge

1952

• The Shrike Joseph Kramm

1951

• No award

1950

• South Pacific Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II and Joshua Logan

1949

• Death of a salesman Arthur Miller

1948

• A streetcar named desire Tennessee Williams

1947

• No award

1946

• State of the union Russell Crouse and Howard Lindsay

1945

• Harvey Mary Chase

1944

• No award

1943

• The skin of our teeth Thornton Wilder

1942

• No award

1941

• There shall be no night Robert E. Sherwood

1940

• The time of your life William Saroyan

1939

• Abe Lincoln in Illinois Robert E. Sherwood

1938

• Our town Thornton Wilder

1937

• You can’t take it with you Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman

1936

• Idiot’s delight Robert E. Sherwood

1935

• The old maid Zoe Akins

1934

• Men in white Sidney Kingsley

1933

• Both your houses Maxwell Anderson

1932

• Of thee I sing George S. Kaufman, Morrie Ryskind and Ira Gershwin

1931

• Alison’s house Susan Glaspell

1930

• The green pastures Marc Connelly

1929

• Street scene Elmer L. Rice

1928

• Strange interlude Eugene O’Neill

1927

• In Abraham’s bosom Paul E. Green

1926

• Craig’s wife George Kelly

1925

• They knew what they wanted Sidney Howard

1924

• Hell-bent fer heaven Hatcher Hughes

1923

• Icebound Owen Davis

1922

• Anna Christie Eugene O’Neill

1921

• Miss Lulu Bett Zona Gale

1920

• Beyond the horizon Eugene O’Neill

1919

• No award

1918

• Why marry Jesse Lynch Williams

1917

• No award