Lambda Literary Award for Drama

The Lambda Literary Award for Drama is an annual literary award, presented by the Lambda Literary Foundation to an LGBTQ-related literary or theatrical work. Most nominees are plays, or anthologies of plays; however, non-fiction works on theatre or drama have also sometimes been nominated for the award.

Lambda Literary Award for Drama
Awarded for	Literary Award for Drama
Sponsored by	Lambda Literary Foundation
Date	Annual
Website	lambdaliterary.org/awards

Honorees

Following is a list of winners and finalists of the Lambda Literary Award for Drama.

Year	Author	Title	Result	Ref.
1995	Tony Kushner	Angels in America: Perestroika	Winner	[1]
	Cherrie Moraga	Heroes and Saints & Other Plays	Finalist	[1]
	Paul Rudnick	Jeffrey
	Carolyn Gage	Second Coming of Joan of Arc
	David Drake	The Night Larry Kramer Kissed Me
1996	Tony Kushner	Slavs (Thinking About the Longstanding Problems of Virtue and Happiness)	Winner	[2]
	Guinevere Turner and Rose Troche	Go Fish	Finalist	[2]
	Terrence McNally	Love! Valour! Compassion!
	Michael Kearns	T-Cells and Sympathy
	Eric Lane and Nina Shengold (eds.)	The Actor's Book of Gay and Lesbian Plays
1997	Sue-Ellen Case	Split Britches	WInner	[3]
	Michael Kearns	Acting=Life	Finalist	[3]
	Rosemary Keefe Curb	Amazon All-Stars
	Holly Hughes	Clit Notes
	Mart Crowley	Three Plays by Crowley
1998	Moises Kaufman	Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde	Winner	[4]
	Harry M. Benshoff	Monsters in the Closet	Finalist	[4]
	Chay Yew	Porcelain and A Language of Their Own
	Jonathan Larson	Rent
	Lillian Schlissel	Three Plays by Mae West
1999	Holly Hughes	O Solo Homo	Winner	[5]
	Jim Grimsley and David Roman	Mr. Universe and Other Plays	Finalist	[5]
	D. A. Miller	Place For Us
	Sarah Schulman	Stagestruck: Theater, Aids, and the Marketing of Gay America
	Eve Ensler	The Vagina Monologues
2000	Craig Lucas	What I Meant Was	Winner	[6]
	Terrence McNally	Corpus Christi	Finalist	[6]
	Laurence Senelick	Lovesick
	Deb Margolin	Of All the Nerve
	Steven Watson	Prepare for Saints: Gertrude Stein, Virgil Thomson, and the Mainstreaming of American Modernism
2001	John Cameron Mitchell and Stephen Trask	Hedwig and the Angry Inch	Winner	[7]
	Lisa Kron, Maureen Angelos, Dominique Dibbell, Peg Healey and Babs Davy	Five Lesbian Brothers	Finalist	[7]
	Alina Troyano	I, Carmelita Tropicana
	Tom Donaghy	The Beginning of August
	Paul Rudnick	The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told
2002	No award presented
2003	No award presented
2004	Brian Drader	Prok	Winner	[8]
	Ben Hodges	Forbidden Acts	Finalist	[8]
	C. E. Gatchalian	Motifs & Repetitions & Other Plays
	Mart Crowley	The Band Plays
	Robert Schanke	Women in Turmoil: Six Plays
2005	Doug Wright	I Am My Own Wife	Winner	[9]
	Donald Reuter	Fabulous!	Finalist	[9]
	David Gere	How to Make Dances in an Epidemic
	Sharon Bridgeforth	love conjure/blues
	Claude J. Summers	The Queer Encyclopedia of Music, Dance and Musical Theater
2006	No award presented
2007	Tim Miller	1001 Beds	Winner	[10]
	Steven Fales	Confessions of a Mormon Boy	Finalist	[10]
	Victor Bumbalo	Questa
2008	Steve Susoyev and George Birimisa (eds.)	Return to the Caffe Cino	Winner	[11][12]
	Dan Bernitt	Dose: Plays & Monologues	Finalist	[11]
	Victor Bumbalo	Niagara Falls
2009	Carolyn Gage	The Second Coming of Joan of Arc	Winner	[13]
	Dan Bernitt	Phi Alpha Gamma	Finalist	[13]
	Martin Duberman	Radical Acts: Collected Political Plays
	Scott Schofield	Two Truths and a Lie
	Vanda	Vile Affections
2010	Mart Crowley	The Collected Plays of Mart Crowley	Winner	[14]
	Bonnie J. Morris	Revenge of the Women's Studies Professor	Finalist	[14]
	Kate Moira Ryan and Linda S. Chapman	The Beebo Brinker Chronicles
2011	Maureen Angelos, Dominique Dibbell, Peg Healey and Lisa Kron	Oedipus at Palm Springs: A Five Lesbian Brothers Play	Winner	[15][16]
	Octavio Solis	Lydia	Finalist	[17]
	Daniel Talbott	Slipping
	Tarell Alvin McCraney	The Brother/Sister Plays
	Bryden MacDonald	With Bated Breath
2012	Peggy Shaw	A Menopausal Gentleman: The Solo Performances of Peggy Shaw	Winner	[18]
	Anton Dudley	Letters to the End of the World	Finalist
	Jonathan Tolins	Secrets of the Trade
	Jon Marans	The Temperamentals
	Madeleine George	The Zero Hour
2013	David Greenspan	The Myopia and Other Plays	Winner	[19]
	Jon Marans	A Strange and Separate People	Finalist	[19]
	A. Rey Pamatmat	Edith Can Shoot Things and Hit Them
	C. E. Gatchalian	Falling in Time
	A. Rey Pamatmat	Thunder Above, Deeps Below
2014	Michel Marc Bouchard	Tom at the Farm	Winner	[20][21][22]
	Adelina Anthony	Las Hociconas: Three Locas with Big Mouths and Even Bigger Brains	Finalist	[21]
	Djola Branner	sash & trim and other plays
2015	Robert O'Hara	Bootycandy	Winner	[23][24][25][26]
	Daniel Pearle	A Kid Like Jake	Finalist	[24]
	Adelina Anthony	The Beast of Times
	Samuel D. Hunter	The Whale
	Steve Yockey	Wolves
2016	Tanya Barfield	Bright Half Life	Winner	[27][28]
	Jeanine Tesori and Lisa Kron	Fun Home	Finalist	[29]
	Taylor Mac	Hir
	Deborah Salem Smith	Love Alone
	Bathsheba Doran	The Mystery of Love and Sex
2017	Robert O'Hara	Barbecue/Bootycandy	Winner	[30][31]
	Lois Fine	Freda and Jem’s Best of the Week	Finalist	[32]
	Topher Payne	Perfect Arrangement
2018	Audrey Cefaly	The Gulf	Winner	[33][34]
	Scott C. Sickles	Composure	Finalist	[35]
	Tom MacRae	Everybody's Talking About Jamie
	Trey Anthony	How Black Mothers Say I Love You
	Paula Vogel	Indecent
2019	Mashuq Mushtaq Deen	Draw the Circle	Winner	[36]
	Daniel Alexander Jones	Black Light	Finalist	[37]
	Jen Silverman	Collective Rage: A Play in Five Betties
	Miranda Rose Hall	Plot Points in Our Sexual Development
	Erin Markey	Singlet
2020	Michael R. Jackson	A Strange Loop	Winner	[38][39][40]
	Liza Birkenmeier	Dr. Ride's American Beach House	Finalist	[41][42]
	Jordan Harrison	The Amateurs
2021	Yilong Liu	The Book of Mountains and Seas	Winner	[43][44][45]
	Jacqueline Goldfinger	Babel	Finalist	[46]
	Liza Birkenmeier and Jill Sobule	F*ck7thGrade
	Sarah Einspanier	House Plant
	R. Eric Thomas	Safe Space
2022	R. Eric Thomas	Mrs. Harrison	Winner	[47]
	Daniel Alexander Jones	Love Like Light	Finalist	[48]
	storäe michele	mama [rose.]
	Kheven LaGrone	Pillow Talk
	L M Feldman	Thrive, or What You Will {an epic}
2023	Ho Ka Kei (Jeff Ho)	Iphigenia and the Furies (On Taurian Land) & Antigone: 方	Winner	[49]
	kai fig taddei	Duecentomila	Finalist	[50]
	Sikivu Hutchinson	Rock ‘n’ Roll Heretic
	Tom Ford (writer) and Alex Syiek (music and lyrics)	The Show on the Roof
	Hansol Jung	Wolf Play
2024	James Ijames	Fat Ham	Winner	[51]
	Adam Meisner	For Both Resting and Breeding	Finalist	[52]
	Andrew Rincón	I Wanna Fuck Like Romeo and Juliet
	Milo Wippermann	Joan of Arkansas
	Harrison David Rivers	the bandaged place