Lambda Literary Award for Drama

American literary award

Lambda Literary Award for Drama

Awarded for| Literary Award for Drama
Sponsored by| Lambda Literary Foundation
Date| Annual
Website| lambdaliterary.org/awards

The Lambda Literary Award for Drama is an annual literary award, presented by the Lambda Literary Foundation to an LGBTQ-related literary or theatrical work. Most nominees are plays, or anthologies of plays; however, non-fiction works on theatre or drama have also sometimes been nominated for the award.

## Honorees

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Lambda Literary Award for Drama winners and finalists Year  | Author  | Title  | Result  | Ref.

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1995 | Tony Kushner | Angels in America: Perestroika | Winner  | [1]
Cherrie Moraga | Heroes and Saints & Other Plays | Finalist  | [1]
Paul Rudnick | Jeffrey
Carolyn Gage | Second Coming of Joan of Arc
David Drake | The Night Larry Kramer Kissed Me
1996 | Tony Kushner | Slavs (Thinking About the Longstanding Problems of Virtue and Happiness) | Winner  | [2]
Guinevere Turner and Rose Troche | Go Fish | Finalist  | [2]
Terrence McNally | Love! Valour! Compassion!
Michael Kearns | T-Cells and Sympathy
Eric Lane and Nina Shengold (eds.)  | The Actor's Book of Gay and Lesbian Plays
1997 | Sue-Ellen Case | Split Britches | WInner  | [3]
Michael Kearns | Acting=Life | Finalist  | [3]
Rosemary Keefe Curb | Amazon All-Stars
Holly Hughes | Clit Notes
Mart Crowley | Three Plays by Crowley
1998 | Moises Kaufman | Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde | Winner  | [4]
Harry M. Benshoff | Monsters in the Closet | Finalist  | [4]
Chay Yew | Porcelain and A Language of Their Own
Jonathan Larson | Rent
Lillian Schlissel | Three Plays by Mae West
1999 | Holly Hughes | O Solo Homo | Winner  | [5]
Jim Grimsley and David Roman  | Mr. Universe and Other Plays | Finalist  | [5]
D. A. Miller | Place For Us
Sarah Schulman | Stagestruck: Theater, Aids, and the Marketing of Gay America
Eve Ensler | The Vagina Monologues
2000 | Craig Lucas | What I Meant Was | Winner  | [6]
Terrence McNally | Corpus Christi | Finalist  | [6]
Laurence Senelick | Lovesick
Deb Margolin | Of All the Nerve
Steven Watson | Prepare for Saints: Gertrude Stein, Virgil Thomson, and the Mainstreaming of American Modernism
2001 | John Cameron Mitchell and Stephen Trask  | Hedwig and the Angry Inch | Winner  | [7]
Lisa Kron, Maureen Angelos, Dominique Dibbell, Peg Healey and Babs Davy  | Five Lesbian Brothers | Finalist  | [7]
Alina Troyano | I, Carmelita Tropicana
Tom Donaghy | The Beginning of August
Paul Rudnick | The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told
2002 | No award presented |
2003 | No award presented |
2004 | Brian Drader | Prok | Winner  | [8]
Ben Hodges | Forbidden Acts | Finalist  | [8]
C. E. Gatchalian | Motifs & Repetitions & Other Plays
Mart Crowley | The Band Plays
Robert Schanke | Women in Turmoil: Six Plays
2005 | Doug Wright | I Am My Own Wife | Winner  | [9]
Donald Reuter | Fabulous! | Finalist  | [9]
David Gere | How to Make Dances in an Epidemic
Sharon Bridgeforth | love conjure/blues
Claude J. Summers | The Queer Encyclopedia of Music, Dance and Musical Theater
2006 | No award presented |
2007 | Tim Miller | 1001 Beds | Winner  | [10]
Steven Fales | Confessions of a Mormon Boy | Finalist  | [10]
Victor Bumbalo | Questa
2008 | Steve Susoyev and George Birimisa (eds.)  | Return to the Caffe Cino | Winner  | [11][12]
Dan Bernitt | Dose: Plays & Monologues | Finalist  | [11]
Victor Bumbalo | Niagara Falls
2009 | Carolyn Gage | The Second Coming of Joan of Arc | Winner  | [13]
Dan Bernitt | Phi Alpha Gamma | Finalist  | [13]
Martin Duberman | Radical Acts: Collected Political Plays
Scott Schofield | Two Truths and a Lie
Vanda  | Vile Affections
2010 | Mart Crowley | The Collected Plays of Mart Crowley | Winner  | [14]
Bonnie J. Morris | Revenge of the Women's Studies Professor | Finalist  | [14]
Kate Moira Ryan and Linda S. Chapman | The Beebo Brinker Chronicles
2011 | Maureen Angelos, Dominique Dibbell, Peg Healey and Lisa Kron | Oedipus at Palm Springs: A Five Lesbian Brothers Play | Winner  | [15][16]
Octavio Solis | Lydia | Finalist  | [17]
Daniel Talbott | Slipping
Tarell Alvin McCraney | The Brother/Sister Plays
Bryden MacDonald | With Bated Breath
2012 | Peggy Shaw | A Menopausal Gentleman: The Solo Performances of Peggy Shaw | Winner  | [18]
Anton Dudley | Letters to the End of the World | Finalist  |
Jonathan Tolins | Secrets of the Trade |
Jon Marans | The Temperamentals |
Madeleine George | The Zero Hour |
2013 | David Greenspan | The Myopia and Other Plays | Winner  | [19]
Jon Marans | A Strange and Separate People | Finalist  | [19]
A. Rey Pamatmat | Edith Can Shoot Things and Hit Them
C. E. Gatchalian | Falling in Time
A. Rey Pamatmat | Thunder Above, Deeps Below
2014 | Michel Marc Bouchard | Tom at the Farm | Winner  | [20][21][22]
Adelina Anthony | Las Hociconas: Three Locas with Big Mouths and Even Bigger Brains | Finalist  | [21]
Djola Branner | sash & trim and other plays
2015 | Robert O'Hara | Bootycandy | Winner  | [23][24][25][26]
Daniel Pearle | A Kid Like Jake | Finalist  | [24]
Adelina Anthony | The Beast of Times
Samuel D. Hunter | The Whale
Steve Yockey | Wolves
2016 | Tanya Barfield | Bright Half Life | Winner  | [27][28]
Jeanine Tesori and Lisa Kron | Fun Home | Finalist  | [29]
Taylor Mac | Hir
Deborah Salem Smith | Love Alone
Bathsheba Doran | The Mystery of Love and Sex
2017 | Robert O'Hara | Barbecue/Bootycandy | Winner  | [30][31]
Lois Fine | Freda and Jem’s Best of the Week | Finalist  | [32]
Topher Payne | Perfect Arrangement
2018 | Audrey Cefaly | The Gulf | Winner  | [33][34]
Scott C. Sickles | Composure | Finalist  | [35]
Tom MacRae | Everybody's Talking About Jamie
Trey Anthony | How Black Mothers Say I Love You
Paula Vogel | Indecent
2019 | Mashuq Mushtaq Deen | Draw the Circle | Winner  | [36]
Daniel Alexander Jones | Black Light | Finalist  | [37]
Jen Silverman | Collective Rage: A Play in Five Betties
Miranda Rose Hall | Plot Points in Our Sexual Development
Erin Markey | Singlet
2020 | Michael R. Jackson | A Strange Loop | Winner  | [38][39][40]
Liza Birkenmeier | Dr. Ride's American Beach House | Finalist  | [41][42]
Jordan Harrison | The Amateurs
2021 | Yilong Liu | The Book of Mountains and Seas | Winner  | [43][44][45]
Jacqueline Goldfinger | Babel | Finalist  | [46]
Liza Birkenmeier and Jill Sobule  | F*ck7thGrade
Sarah Einspanier | House Plant
R. Eric Thomas | Safe Space
2022 | R. Eric Thomas | Mrs. Harrison | Winner  | [47]
Daniel Alexander Jones | Love Like Light | Finalist  | [48]
storäe michele | mama [rose.]
Kheven LaGrone | Pillow Talk
L M Feldman | Thrive, or What You Will {an epic}
2023 | Ho Ka Kei (Jeff Ho)  | Iphigenia and the Furies (On Taurian Land) & Antigone: 方 | Winner  | [49]
kai fig taddei | Duecentomila | Finalist  | [50]
Sikivu Hutchinson | Rock ‘n’ Roll Heretic
Tom Ford (writer) and Alex Syiek (music and lyrics)  | The Show on the Roof
Hansol Jung | Wolf Play
2024 | James Ijames | Fat Ham | Winner  | [51]
Adam Meisner | For Both Resting and Breeding | Finalist  | [52]
Andrew Rincón | I Wanna Fuck Like Romeo and Juliet
Milo Wippermann | Joan of Arkansas
Harrison David Rivers | the bandaged place

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