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.

Winners and nominees

Year	Winner	Nominated
1988	No award presented
1989
1990
1991
1992
1993
1994	Tony Kushner, Angels in America: Perestroika	Paul Rudnick, Jeffrey David Drake, The Night Larry Kramer Kissed Me Cherrie Moraga, Heroes and Saints & Other Plays Carolyn Gage, Second Coming of Joan of Arc
1995	Tony Kushner, Slavs (Thinking About the Longstanding Problems of Virtue and Happiness) Guinevere Turner and Rose Troche, Go Fish	Eric Lane and Nina Shengold, eds., The Actor’s Book of Gay and Lesbian Plays Terrence McNally, Love! Valour! Compassion! Michael Kearns, T-Cells and Sympathy
1996	Sue-Ellen Case, Split Britches	Michael Kearns, Acting=Life Rosemary Keefe Curb, Amazon All-Stars Holly Hughes, Clit Notes Mart Crowley, Three Plays by Crowley
1997	Moises Kaufman, Gross Indecency: the Three Trials of Oscar Wilde	Harry M. Benshoff, Monsters in the Closet Lillian Schlissel, Three Plays by Mae West Chay Yew, Porcelain and A Language of Their Own Jonathan Larson, Rent
1998	Holly Hughes, O Solo Homo	Jim Grimsley and David Roman, Mr. Universe and Other Plays D. A. Miller, Place For Us Sarah Schulman, Stagestruck Eve Ensler, The Vagina Monologues
1999	Craig Lucas, What I Meant Was	Terrence McNally, Corpus Christi Laurence Senelick, Lovesick Deb Margolin, Of All the Nerve Steven Watson, Prepare for Saints: Gertrude Stein, Virgil Thomson, and the Mainstreaming of American Modernism
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	Ben Hodges, Forbidden Acts C. E. Gatchalian, Motifs & Repetitions & Other Plays Mart Crowley, The Band Plays Robert Schanke, Women in Turmoil: Six Plays
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	Victor Bumbalo, Questa Steven Fales, Confessions of a Mormon Boy
2007	Steve Susoyev and George Birimisa, eds., Return to the Caffe Cino	Dan Bernitt, Dose: Plays & Monologues Victor Bumbalo, Niagara Falls
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	Bonnie J. Morris, Revenge of the Women’s Studies Professor Kate Moira Ryan and Linda S. Chapman, The Beebo Brinker Chronicles
2010	Maureen Angelos, Dominique Dibbell, Peg Healey and Lisa Kron, Oedipus at Palm Springs: A Five Lesbian Brothers Play	Tarell Alvin McCraney, The Brother/Sister Plays Bryden MacDonald, With Bated Breath Octavio Solis, Lydia Daniel Talbott, Slipping
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	Adelina Anthony, The Beast of Times Daniel Pearle, A Kid Like Jake Samuel D. Hunter, The Whale Steve Yockey, Wolves
2015	TBA	Tanya Barfield, Bright Half Life Jeanine Tesori and Lisa Kron, Fun Home Taylor Mac, Hir Deborah Salem Smith, Love Alone Bathsheba Doran, The Mystery of Love and Sex

External links

• Lambda Literary Awards