Writer (Book & Lyrics)
Marsha Norman is the winner of the 1983 Pulitzer Prize, Blackburn Prize, Hull-Warriner, and Drama Desk Awards for her play ‘Night, Mother. In 1992 she won a Tony Award and a Drama Desk Award for her book for the Broadway musical, The Secret Garden. She also wrote the book for the Broadway musical, The Color Purple, for which she also received a Tony nomination.
Theatre includes: Master Butcher’s Singing Club; Getting Out (winner of the John Gassner Medallion and American Theater Critics Association Citation); Third and Oak; The Laundromat; The Pool Hall; The Holdup; Traveler in the Dark; Sarah and Abraham; Loving Danial Boone; Trudy Blue; Last Dance.
Film and TV includes: ‘Night Mother; The Laundromat; The Pool Hall; Face of a Stranger; Cooler Climate; Audrey Hepburn, Custody of the Heart; Samantha, an American Girl. She spent one year as Co-Executive Producer of Law and Order: Criminal Intent, and wrote the Gina episodes of Season 2 of HBO’s In Treatment (for which she won a Peabody Award).
Other published work includes: Four Plays, Collected Works Of Marsha Norman, Vol 1; and a novel, The Fortune Teller.
Awards include: Grammy and Emmy nominations; grants and awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters; the Margo Jones Award, Sidney Kingsley Award and the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Guild Hall Academy of Arts and Letters.
Marsha is also Co-Chair of the Playwriting Department of The Juilliard School. She writes and lectures frequently on the theatre and has 18 honorary degrees from American colleges and Universities. She was elected to membership in the Fellowship of Southern Writers and serves on the Governing Board of the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize. She is Chair of the Academic Affairs committee of the Board of Trustees of Agnes Scott College, and a former Vice-President of the Dramatists Guild of America. She is a native of Kentucky and currently lives in New York.
