- Organizer
- The Pulitzer Prizes (Columbia University)
- Why it counts
- Awarded annually since 1918 by the Pulitzer Prize Board, administered by Columbia University, for a distinguished play by an American author, preferably original in its source and dealing with American life
- Held
- annual, early May, with the Pulitzer Prize announcement
Reigning winners
Pulitzer Prize for Drama · 2023
- Sanaz Toossi — English source 1 · source 2
| Year | Pulitzer Prize for Drama |
|---|---|
| 2023 | Sanaz Toossi — English |
| 2022 | James Ijames — Fat Ham |
| 2021 | Katori Hall — The Hot Wing King |
| 2020 | Michael R. Jackson — A Strange Loop |
| 2018 | Martyna Majok — Cost of Living |
| 2017 | Lynn Nottage — Sweat |
| 2016 | Lin-Manuel Miranda — Hamilton |
| 2015 | Stephen Adly Guirgis — Between Riverside and Crazy |
| 2014 | Annie Baker — The Flick |
| 2013 | Ayad Akhtar — Disgraced |
| 2012 | Quiara Alegría Hudes — Water by the Spoonful |
| 2011 | Bruce Norris — Clybourne Park |
| 2010 | Brian Yorkey — Next to Normal Tom Kitt — Next to Normal |
| 2009 | Lynn Nottage — Ruined |
| 2008 | Tracy Letts — August: Osage County |
| 2007 | David Lindsay-Abaire — Rabbit Hole |
| 2005 | John Patrick Shanley — Doubt: A Parable |
| 2004 | Doug Wright — I Am My Own Wife |
| 2003 | Nilo Cruz — Anna in the Tropics |
| 2002 | Suzan-Lori Parks — Topdog/Underdog |
| 2001 | David Auburn — Proof |
| 2000 | Donald Margulies — Dinner with Friends |
| 1999 | Margaret Edson — Wit |
| 1998 | Paula Vogel — How I Learned to Drive |
| 1996 | Jonathan Larson — Rent |
| 1995 | Horton Foote — The Young Man from Atlanta |
| 1994 | Edward Albee — Three Tall Women |
| 1993 | Tony Kushner — Angels in America |
| 1992 | Robert Schenkkan — The Kentucky Cycle |
| 1991 | Neil Simon — Lost in Yonkers |
| 1990 | August Wilson — The Piano Lesson |
| 1989 | Wendy Wasserstein — The Heidi Chronicles |
| 1988 | Alfred Uhry — Driving Miss Daisy |
| 1987 | August Wilson — Fences |
| 1985 | James Lapine — Sunday in the Park with George Stephen Sondheim — Sunday in the Park with George |
| 1984 | David Mamet — Glengarry Glen Ross |
| 1983 | Marsha Norman — 'night, Mother |
| 1982 | Charles Fuller — A Soldier's Play |
| 1981 | Beth Henley — Crimes of the Heart |
| 1980 | Lanford Wilson — Talley's Folly |
| 1979 | Sam Shepard — Buried Child |
| 1978 | Donald L. Coburn — The Gin Game |
| 1977 | Michael Cristofer — The Shadow Box |
| 1976 | Edward Kleban — A Chorus Line James Kirkwood, Jr. — A Chorus Line Marvin Hamlisch — A Chorus Line Michael Bennett — A Chorus Line Nicholas Dante — A Chorus Line |
| 1975 | Edward Albee — Seascape |
| 1973 | Jason Miller — That Championship Season |
| 1971 | Paul Zindel — The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds |
| 1970 | Charles Gordone — No Place to be Somebody |
| 1969 | Howard Sackler — The Great White Hope |
| 1967 | Edward Albee — A Delicate Balance |
| 1965 | Frank D. Gilroy — The Subject Was Roses |
| 1962 | Abe Burrows — How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying Frank Loesser — How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying |
| 1961 | Tad Mosel — All the Way Home |
| 1960 | George Abbott — Fiorello! Jerome Weidman — Fiorello! Jerry Bock — Fiorello! Sheldon Harnick — Fiorello! |
| 1959 | Archibald MacLeish — J.B. |
| 1958 | Ketti Frings — Look Homeward, Angel |
| 1957 | Eugene O'Neill — Long Day's Journey into Night |
| 1956 | Albert Hackett — The Diary of Anne Frank Frances Goodrich — The Diary of Anne Frank |
| 1955 | Tennessee Williams — Cat on a Hot Tin Roof |
| 1954 | John Patrick — The Teahouse of the August Moon |
| 1953 | William Inge — Picnic |
| 1952 | Joseph Kramm — The Shrike |
| 1950 | Joshua Logan — South Pacific Oscar Hammerstein II — South Pacific Richard Rodgers — South Pacific |
| 1949 | Arthur Miller — Death of a Salesman |
| 1948 | Tennessee Williams — A Streetcar Named Desire |
| 1946 | Howard Lindsay — State of the Union Russel Crouse — State of the Union |
| 1943 | Thornton Wilder — The Skin of Our Teeth |
| 1941 | Robert E. Sherwood — There Shall Be No Night |
| 1940 | William Saroyan — The Time of Your Life |
| 1939 | Robert E. Sherwood — Abe Lincoln in Illinois |
| 1938 | Thornton Wilder — Our Town |
| 1937 | George S. Kaufman — You Can't Take It with You Moss Hart — You Can't Take It with You |
| 1936 | Robert E. Sherwood — Idiot's Delight |
| 1935 | Zoë Akins — The Old Maid |
| 1934 | Sidney Kingsley — Men in White |
| 1933 | Maxwell Anderson — Both Your Houses |
| 1932 | George S. Kaufman — Of Thee I Sing Ira Gershwin — Of Thee I Sing Morrie Ryskind — Of Thee I Sing |
| 1931 | Susan Glaspell — Alison's House |
| 1930 | Marc Connelly — The Green Pastures |
| 1929 | Elmer Rice — Street Scene |
| 1928 | Eugene O'Neill — Strange Interlude |
| 1927 | Paul Green — In Abraham's Bosom |
| 1926 | George Kelly — Craig's Wife |
| 1925 | Sidney Howard — They Knew What They Wanted |
| 1924 | Hatcher Hughes — Hell-Bent fer Heaven |
| 1923 | Owen Davis — Icebound |
| 1922 | Eugene O'Neill — Anna Christie |
| 1921 | Zona Gale — Miss Lulu Bett |
| 1920 | Eugene O'Neill — Beyond the Horizon |
| 1918 | Jesse Lynch Williams — Why Marry? |