Sweat

Dawn was Founder, and former Artistic Director and Chief Executive, of Eclipse Theatre, the UK's principal Black-led national production company.  In 2020 she was awarded the OBE for services to theatre. 

Theatre includes The Death of a Black Man (Hampstead Theatre); Antigone (Mercury Theatre); The Gift (Eclipse Theatre/Belgrade Theatre/Theatre Royal Stratford East); salt (Schaubühne/Public Theater/Royal Court/Summerhall/Theatre Bristol/Yorkshire Festival. The Stage Edinburgh Award and Total Theatre Award for Experimentation, Innovation and Playing with Form); Red Dust Road (National Theatre of Scotland/EIF/HOME); Black Men Walking (Eclipse Theatre/Royal Court/Royal Exchange/UK Tour. Nominated for UK Theatre Award for Best New Play & Writer's Guild Award for Best Play); The Princess and the Hustler (Eclipse Theatre/Bristol Old Vic/UK Tour); A Raisin in the Sun (Eclipse Theatre/Crucible Theatre/UK Tour. Nominated for UK Theatre Award for Best Touring Production); One Monkey Don’t Stop No Show (Eclipse Theatre/Tricycle Theatre/UK Tour); Jonzi D - Lyrikal Feata: The Letter (Sadler’s Wells); Michael X (Eclipse Theatre/Tabernacle/Rich Mix); There's Only One Wayne Matthews (Crucible Theatre); The Hounding of David Oluwale (Eclipse Theatre/West Yorkshire Playhouse. Nominated for TMA Award for Best Director); Oxford Street (nominated for Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in an Affiliate Theatre), 93.2FM (also UK Tour), Rampage, Workers Writes, Drag-On, The Shining (all at Royal Court); Winners, The Blacks (Young Vic); Urban Legend (Liverpool Playhouse); Effie May (Oval House).

Television includes salt (Performance Director for BBC 4).

Film includes Samuel’s Trousers, 10by10, Babydoll, A Blues For Nia, Black Magic, Brown Widow, Music in the Bones, Omar, Parking Wars, Perfume, Rage, Two Tone.

Radio includes The Last Flag.

Lynn Nottage is the first woman in history to win two Pulitzer Prizes for Drama. Her plays have been produced widely in the United States and throughout the world. Recent work includes the libretto for the opera Intimate Apparel (LCT), the book for the musical MJ (Broadway), Clyde’s (Broadway, 2ST), and the book for The Secret Life of Bees. Other credits include the libretto for Intimate Apparel the Opera (Lincoln Center Theater) and co-curating the performance installation The Watering Hole (Signature Theater). (Atlantic); Mlima’s Tale; Sweat (Pulitzer Prize, Obie, Evening Standard Award, Susan Smith Blackburn Prize); By the Way, Meet Vera Stark (Lilly Award); Ruined (Pulitzer Prize, Obie, Lortel, NY Drama Critics’ Circle, AUDELCO, Drama Desk and OCC awards); Intimate Apparel (American Theatre Critics and NY Drama Critics' Circle). TV: Writer/Producer of She's Gotta Have It (Netflix), Consulting Producer on Dickinson (Apple TV+). Awards: PEN/Laura Pels Master Dramatist Award, Doris Duke Artist Award, American Academy of Arts and Letters Award, MacArthur “Genius Grant” Fellowship. She is a Professor at Columbia University School of the Arts, and is a member of the Theater Hall of Fame and the Dramatists Guild.

Contains strong and offensive language, use of slurs, violence, alcohol use, alcoholism, smoking, haze, and sudden and loud noises. References to death, injury, attempted suicide, and drug use. Themes of racism, ableism, classism, and sexism.