Marsha Norman

Marsha Norman is the winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Blackburn Prize, Hull-Warriner, and Drama Desk awards for her play Night, Mother. She is a Tony and Drama Desk award winner for her book for the Broadway musical, The Secret Garden. This season, she is represented on Broadway by her book for the musical, The Color Purple. Her other plays include Getting Out, for which she won the John Gassner Medallion and the American Theater Critics Association Citation, Third and Oak, The Laundromat, The Pool Hall, The Holdup, Traveler in the Dark, Sarah and Abraham, Loving Daniel Boone, Trudy Blue and Last Dance.

Her television and film credits include Night, Mother, starring Sissy Spacek and Anne Bancroft; The Laundromat, starring Carol Burnett and Amy Madigan; The Pool Hall, starring James Earl Jones; Face of a Stranger, starring Gena Rowlands and Tyne Daley; Cooler Climate, starring Sally Field and Judy Davis; Audrey Hepburn: Custody of the Heart, and most recently, Samantha, An American Girl. In the 2007-8 season, she was Co-Executive Producer and Writer for Law and Order: Criminal Intent.

Her other published work includes Four Plays, Collected Works Of Marsha Norman, Vol 1., and a novel, The Fortune Teller. She has Grammy, Emmy and WGA nominations, as well as grants and awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. She won the Sidney Kingsley Award and the Margo Jones Award, and is especially proud to be a New York Library Literary Lion.

Ms. Norman is a member of The Fellowship of Southern Writers, and teaches the Masters Thesis in Playwriting class at NYU. She is Co-Chair, with Christopher Durang, of the Playwriting Department of The Juilliard School, and for the last ten years she has served as Vice-President of the Dramatists Guild of America.