Martyna Majok

Martyna Majok (playwright) was awarded the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for her Broadway debut play, Cost of Living, which was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Play. Other plays include Sanctuary City, Queens, and Ironbound. Awards include The Steinberg Playwright Award, Arthur Miller Foundation Legacy Award, The Obie Award for Playwriting, Hull-Warriner Award, The Academy of Arts and Letters Award for Exceptional Playwriting, Off Broadway Alliance Best New Play Award, Lucille Lortel Award, Hermitage Greenfield Prize, Champions of Change Award from the NYC Mayor’s Office, The Francesca Primus Prize, two Jane Chambers Playwriting Awards, Lanford Wilson Prize, Lilly Award, Helen Merrill Award, Helen Hayes Award, Jean Kennedy Smith Award, NYTW 2050 Fellowship, NNPN Smith Prize for Political Playwriting, and Merage Foundation Fellowship for The American Dream. Martyna studied at Yale School of Drama, Juilliard, University of Chicago, and Jersey public schools. She was a PoNY Fellow at the Lark and a Hodder Fellow at Princeton University. Gatsby, a new musical for which Martyna wrote the libretto with music by Florence Welch and Thomas Bartlett, will premiere this spring at A.R.T. Martyna has developed TV projects for HBO and has written feature films for Plan B/Pastel/MGM/Orion and Participant/Killer Films.