“I want Playwrights Horizons to reflect the wild diversity of the lives in this city,” he said. “I want to think of our walls as being porous, so that we’re exiting the building and bringing more parts of the city in.”
With outrage and great sorrow, we mourn the Black lives unjustly lost to state-sanctioned violence. Systems of racism are perpetuated by our cultural institutions and the narratives we uphold. We acknowledge our role in creating culture, our responsibility to New York City and the nation, and the privilege we stand to mobilize in service of social justice.
Michael R. Jackson's astounding musical wins the 2020 Pulitzer Prize in Drama, and Will Arbery's Heroes of the Fourth Turning is a finalist! We have now been awarded a total of seven Pulitzer Prizes, and we are so proud to continue supporting the stories of today by the writers of tomorrow.
