The William Inge Theater Festival has named their honoree for 2020. Lynn Nottage, a two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, is the Playwright Honoree of the 39th William Inge Theater Festival. The Festival takes place May 20-23, 2020, at the William Inge Center for the Arts in Independence. Nottage will accept the Distinguished Achievement in the American Theater Award and join the roster of acclaimed writers who have attended the Festival including Arthur Miller, August Wilson, Wendy Wasserstein, Stephen Sondheim, and Paula Vogel. Nottage, a screenwriter as well as playwright, is the first woman in history to win two Pulitzers for Drama.
The Inge Festival is the Official Theater Festival of Kansas, as designated by the state legislature.
