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Plainfield Native Wins Pulitzer Prize For Drama

Jackie Sibblies Drury has won the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, the prize committee announced Monday. 

Drury's play, "Fairview," is a "hard-hitting drama that examines race in a highly conceptual, layered structure, ultimately bringing audiences into the actors’ community to face deep-seated prejudices," the committee said. 

Fairview, which was staged in New York last year and will have a return engagement in June, has also been described as a play that made one reviewer "the most uncomfortable I've ever been inside a theater. In a good way." 

Drury grew up in Plainfield and earned an MFA from Brown University. She is also the author of "Social Creatures" and  "We Are Proud to Present a Presentation About the Herero of Namibia, Formerly Known as Southwest Africa, From the German Sudwestafrika, Between the Years 1884-1915." 

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