Pulitzer Prize Drama Winners — Complete List (1918–2025)

• Purpose by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

  2025PulitzerDrama
• Primary Trust by Eboni Booth

  2024PulitzerDrama

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• English by Sanaz Toossi

  2023PulitzerDrama

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  Fat Ham by James Ijames

  2022PulitzerDrama

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• The Hot Wing King by Katori Hall

  2021PulitzerDrama

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  A Strange Loop by Michael R. Jackson

  2020PulitzerDrama

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• Fairview by Jackie Sibblies Drury

  2019PulitzerDrama

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• Cost of Living by Martyna Majok

  2018PulitzerDrama

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  Sweat by Lynn Nottage

  2017PulitzerDrama

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• Hamilton by Lin-Manuel Miranda

  2016PulitzerDrama

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• Between Riverside and Crazy by Stephen Adly Guirgis

  2015PulitzerDrama

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  The Flick by Annie Baker

  2014PulitzerDrama

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  Disgraced by Ayad Akhtar

  2013PulitzerDrama

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• Water by the Spoonful by Quiara Alegría Hudes

  2012PulitzerDrama

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  Clybourne Park by Bruce Norris

  2011PulitzerDrama

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  Next to Normal by Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey

  2010PulitzerDrama

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• Ruined by Lynn Nottage

  2009PulitzerDrama

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  August: Osage County by Tracy Letts

  2008PulitzerDrama

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  Rabbit Hole by David Lindsay-Abaire

  2007PulitzerDrama

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  No Award by No Award

  2006PulitzerDrama

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  Doubt, a parable by John Patrick Shanley

  2005PulitzerDrama

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  I Am My Own Wife by Doug Wright

  2004PulitzerDrama

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  Anna in the Tropics by Nilo Cruz

  2003PulitzerDrama

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  Topdog/Underdog by Suzan-Lori Parks

  2002PulitzerDrama

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  Proof by David Auburn

  2001PulitzerDrama

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• Dinner With Friends by Donald Margulies

  2000PulitzerDrama

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  Wit by Margaret Edson

  1999PulitzerDrama

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• How I Learned to Drive by Paula Vogel

  1998PulitzerDrama

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  No Award by No Award

  1997PulitzerDrama

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  Rent by Jonathan Larson

  1996PulitzerDrama

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• The Young Man From Atlanta by Horton Foote

  1995PulitzerDrama

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• Three Tall Women by Edward Albee

  1994PulitzerDrama

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  Angels in America: Millennium Approaches by Tony Kushner

  1993PulitzerDrama

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  The Kentucky Cycle by Robert Schenkkan

  1992PulitzerDrama

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  Lost in Yonkers by Neil Simon

  1991PulitzerDrama

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  The Piano Lesson by August Wilson

  1990PulitzerDrama

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  The Heidi Chronicles by Wendy Wasserstein

  1989PulitzerDrama

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  Driving Miss Daisy by Alfred Uhry

  1988PulitzerDrama

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  Fences by August Wilson

  1987PulitzerDrama

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  Sunday in the Park With George by Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine

  1985PulitzerDrama

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  Glengarry Glen Ross by David Mamet

  1984PulitzerDrama

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• Night, Mother by Marsha Norman

  1983PulitzerDrama

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  A Soldier's Play by Charles Fuller

  1982PulitzerDrama

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• Crimes of the Heart by Beth Henley

  1981PulitzerDrama

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• Talley's Folly by Lanford Wilson

  1980PulitzerDrama

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  Buried Child by Sam Shepard

  1979PulitzerDrama

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  The Gin Game by Donald L. Coburn

  1978PulitzerDrama

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  The Shadow Box by Michael Cristofer

  1977PulitzerDrama

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• A Chorus Line by Michael Bennett, James Kirkwood, Jr., Marvin Hamlisch, Nicholas Dante and Edward Kleban

  1976PulitzerDrama

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• Seascape by Edward Albee

  1975PulitzerDrama

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• That Championship Season by Jason Miller

  1973PulitzerDrama

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  The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-In-The-Moon Marigolds by Paul Zindel

  1971PulitzerDrama

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• No Place To Be Somebody by Charles Gordone

  1970PulitzerDrama

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  The Great White Hope by Howard Sackler

  1969PulitzerDrama

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  A Delicate Balance by Edward Albee

  1967PulitzerDrama

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• The Subject Was Roses by Frank D. Gilroy

  1965PulitzerDrama

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• How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying by Frank Loesser and Abe Burrows

  1962PulitzerDrama

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• All The Way Home by Tad Mosel

  1961PulitzerDrama

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• Fiorello! by Jerome Weidman, George Abbott, Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick

  1960PulitzerDrama

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  J. B. by Archibald Macleish

  1959PulitzerDrama

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  Look Homeward, Angel by Ketti Frings

  1958PulitzerDrama

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  Long Day's Journey Into Night by Eugene O'Neill

  1957PulitzerDrama

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  Diary of Anne Frank by Albert Hackett and Frances Goodrich

  1956PulitzerDrama

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  Cat on A Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams

  1955PulitzerDrama

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• The Teahouse of the August Moon by John Patrick

  1954PulitzerDrama

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  Picnic by William Inge

  1953PulitzerDrama

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• The Shrike by Joseph Kramm

  1952PulitzerDrama

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

  1950PulitzerDrama

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  Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller

  1949PulitzerDrama

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  A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams

  1948PulitzerDrama

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  State of the Union by Russel Crouse and Howard Lindsay

  1946PulitzerDrama

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• Harvey by Mary Chase

  1945PulitzerDrama

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  The Skin of Our Teeth by Thornton Wilder

  1943PulitzerDrama

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• There Shall Be No Night by Robert E. Sherwood

  1941PulitzerDrama

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• The Time of Your Life by William Saroyan

  1940PulitzerDrama

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• Abe Lincoln in Illinois by Robert E. Sherwood

  1939PulitzerDrama

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  Our Town by Thornton Wilder

  1938PulitzerDrama

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  You Can't Take It With You by Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman

  1937PulitzerDrama

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• Idiots Delight by Robert E. Sherwood

  1936PulitzerDrama
• The Old Maid by Zoe Akins

  1935PulitzerDrama

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• Men in White by Sidney Kingsley

  1934PulitzerDrama

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• Both Your Houses by Maxwell Anderson

  1933PulitzerDrama

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• Of Thee I Sing by George S. Kaufman, Morrie Ryskind and Ira Gershwin

  1932PulitzerDrama

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• Alison's House by Susan Glaspell

  1931PulitzerDrama

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• The Green Pastures by Marc Connelly

  1930PulitzerDrama

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  Street Scene by Elmer L. Rice

  1929PulitzerDrama

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  Strange Interlude by Eugene O'Neill

  1928PulitzerDrama

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• In Abraham's Bosom by Paul Green

  1927PulitzerDrama

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• Craig's Wife by George Kelly

  1926PulitzerDrama

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• They Knew What They Wanted by Sidney Howard

  1925PulitzerDrama

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  Hell-Bent Fer Heaven by Hatcher Hughes

  1924PulitzerDrama

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• Icebound by Owen Davis

  1923PulitzerDrama

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  Anna Christie by Eugene O'Neill

  1922PulitzerDrama

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• Miss Lulu Bett by Zona Gale

  1921PulitzerDrama

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• Beyond the Horizon by Eugene O'Neill

  1920PulitzerDrama

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  Why Marry? by Jesse Lynch Williams

  1918PulitzerDrama

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