# Lynn Nottage

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Show Up, Speak Out, Document Your Event: 1 Day to FALL OF FREEDOM May Day, 2026

In this special vHopeful Conversations episode, Vanessa Hope spotlights Fall of Freedom, a nationwide wave of creative resistance to rising authoritarianism that began last fall and now returns with more than twenty May Day film screenings across multiple states. She highlights powerful new work fr…

A Look Back at Lynn Nottage Shaping Stories That Matter in American Theater

As actors, it’s easy to get caught up in auditions, roles, and the day-to-day work of performing, often without stepping back to consider the larger forces shaping the stories we’re asked to tell. Playwright Lynn Nottage operates on that larger scale. A two-time Pulitzer Prize winner and one of the…

BoD Episode 18: Bill Rauch

Bill Rauch is the inaugural artistic director of the Perelman Performing Arts Center. His work as a theater director has been seen nationwide, from low-income community centers to Broadway, including the Tony Award-winning production of Robert Schenkkan’s All The Way and its sequel, The Great Socie…

171. The Best Plays Of The Century Part Five: the years 2008/9

As part of their long-running series, Alex and Sarah end the 00s with a bumper exploration of two pivotal years for playwriting this century – with Jez Butterworth's Jerusalem, Lucy Prebble's Enron, John Logan's Red, Lynn Nottage's Ruined and so many more to mull over. But which plays will be Sarah…

202: Performing, Parenting, and Theatre Education with Rayme Cornell

Theatre performer and educator, Rayme Cornell, talks career finances as a single mom.   Topics: ⭐️ NOT having hobbies ⭐️ A resume versus a CV (Curriculum Vitae) ⭐️ NOT preboarding an airplane with a child in tow ⭐️ Playwrights being the most famous people in theatre ⭐️ NOT opening a 529 educ…

Contemporary Black Theatre and Performance- With Khalid Y. Long, Aviva Neff, and Xavier Moses

Khalid Y. Long, Associate Dean of Research and Creative Endeavors in the Chadwick A. Boseman College of Fine Arts at Howard University, is a scholar, dramaturg, and author of August Wilson in Context. Aviva Neff, Assistant Professor of Theatre at Denison University, is a director, intimacy coordina…

197. The Best Plays of the Century Part Eight: the years 2014/2015

Sarah and Alex hit the mid 2010s as they continue their foray into the finest theatre works of the 21st century. This time around, a wave of well-received American plays make a big splash on both sides of the Atlantic – with the likes of Annie Baker, Lynn Nottage and Branden Jacobs-Jenkins all wowi…

How Two Military Spouses Went From an Attic to the Shark Tank

What if an American-made handbag could create a job that moves with a military family? Military spouses face unemployment rates roughly five times higher than the national average. Lisa Bradley, co-founder and CEO of R. Riveter, knows that challenge firsthand. So, in 2011, she and her co-founder bu…

200: A 2026 Election Call for Artists

CALL TO ARTISTS: Share your story: 3 minutes from the field Already doing arts-based work to support free and fair elections, or about to? Record a message of about 3 minutes on your phone and answer three questions: Who are you? Your name, where you are, and what you do. What are you up to? How y…