Lambda Literary Award for Drama

The Lambda Literary Award for Drama is an annual literary award, presented by the Lambda Literary Foundation to an LGBT-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.

Lambda Literary Award for Drama
Awarded forLiterary Award for Drama
Sponsored byLambda Literary Foundation
DateAnnual

Winners and nominees
Year Winner Nominated
1988 No award presented
1989
1990
1991
1992
1993
1994 Tony Kushner, Angels in America: Perestroika
1995 Tony Kushner, Slavs (Thinking About the Longstanding Problems of Virtue and Happiness)
Guinevere Turner and Rose Troche, Go Fish
1996 Sue-Ellen Case, Split Britches
1997 Moises Kaufman, Gross Indecency: the Three Trials of Oscar Wilde
1998 Holly Hughes, O Solo Homo
1999 Craig Lucas, What I Meant Was
2000 John Cameron Mitchell and Stephen Trask, Hedwig and the Angry Inch
  • Paul Rudnick, The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told
  • Lisa Kron, Maureen Angelos, Dominique Dibbell, Peg Healey and Babs Davy, Five Lesbian Brothers
  • Tom Donaghy, The Beginning of August
  • Alina Troyano, I, Carmelita Tropicana
2001 No award presented
2002
2003 Brian Drader, Prok
2004 Doug Wright, I Am My Own Wife
  • Donald Reuter, Fabulous!
  • 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
2005 No award presented
2006 Tim Miller, 1001 Beds
2007 Steve Susoyev and George Birimisa, eds., Return to the Caffe Cino
2008 Carolyn Gage, The Second Coming of Joan of Arc
  • Dan Bernitt, Phi Alpha Gamma
  • Martin Duberman, Radical Acts: Collected Political Plays
  • Scott Schofield, Two Truths and a Lie
  • Vanda, Vile Affections
2009 Mart Crowley, The Collected Plays of Mart Crowley
2010 Maureen Angelos, Dominique Dibbell, Peg Healey and Lisa Kron, Oedipus at Palm Springs: A Five Lesbian Brothers Play
2011 Peggy Shaw, A Menopausal Gentleman: The Solo Performances of Peggy Shaw
  • Anton Dudley, Letters to the End of the World
  • Madeleine George, The Zero Hour
  • Jon Marans, The Temperamentals
  • Jonathan Tolins, Secrets of the Trade
2012 David Greenspan, The Myopia and Other Plays
  • C. E. Gatchalian, Falling in Time
  • Jon Marans, A Strange and Separate People
  • A. Rey Pamatmat, Edith Can Shoot Things and Hit Them
  • A. Rey Pamatmat, Thunder Above, Deeps Below
2013 Michel Marc Bouchard, Tom at the Farm
  • Adelina Anthony, Las Hociconas: Three Locas with Big Mouths and Even Bigger Brains
  • Djola Branner, sash & trim and other plays
2014 Robert O'Hara, Bootycandy[1]
  • Adelina Anthony, The Beast of Times
  • Daniel Pearle, A Kid Like Jake
  • Samuel D. Hunter, The Whale
  • Steve Yockey, Wolves
2015 Tanya Barfield, Bright Half Life[2]
2016 Robert O'Hara, Barbecue/Bootycandy[3]
2017 Audrey Cefaly, The Gulf[4]
2018 Mashuq Mushtaq Deen, Draw the Circle
2019 Michael R. Jackson, A Strange Loop[5]
  • Liza Birkenmeier, Dr. Ride's American Beach House
  • Jordan Harrison, The Amateurs

References
  1. "Lambda Literary Awards laud best gay, lesbian and transgender books". Los Angeles Times, June 2, 2015.
  2. "The Lambda Literary Awards Honor Hilton Als and Eileen Myles, Name Winners in 26 Categories". Slate, June 7, 2016.
  3. "29th Annual Lambda Literary Award winners announced" Archived 2018-06-10 at the Wayback Machine. LGBT Weekly, June 13, 2017.
  4. "Lambda Literary awardees include Carmen Maria Machado, John Rechy, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor". Windy City Times, June 5, 2018.
  5. Vanderhoof, Erin (June 1, 2020). "Exclusive: The Winners of the 32nd Annual Lambda Literary Awards". Vanity Fair. Retrieved June 1, 2020.
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