Recipient of the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Play as
the writer of "Intimate Apparel" (2004)
Winner of the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for her play, "Ruined".
Winner of the 2009 New York Critics' Circle Award for Best Play - "Ruined" by Lynn Nottage.
Graduated from Brown University in 1986.
She was awarded the 2009 Joseph Jefferson Award for Best New Work of a Play for "Ruined", performed at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago, Illinois.
Her play, "Ruined", at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago, Illinois, was awarded the 2009 Joseph Jefferson Award for Best Production of a Play (Large).
Her play, "Ruined," at the Eclipse Theatre Company in Chicago, Illinois was nominated for a 2015 Joseph Jefferson Non-Equity Award for Play Production.