Edward Albee’s plays include Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1961-62, Tony Award, 2012-2013 Tony Award); Tiny Alice (1964); A Delicate Balance (1966, Pulitzer Prize, 1966 Tony Award); Three Tall Women (1991, Pulitzer Prize); and The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia? (2000, 2002 Tony Award). In 2005 he was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Tony Award.
 
María Irene Fornés most celebrated plays include Promenade, Fefu and Her Friends, The Danube, Mud, The Conduct of Life, And What of the Night?, and Oscar and Bertha. Ms. Fornés is the recipient of eight Obie Awards, one of which was for Sustained Achievement in Theater. She was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.
 
Adrienne Kennedy has been a force in American theatre since the early 1960s, influencing several generations of playwrights with her hauntingly fragmentary lyrical dramas. She is a three-time Obie award winner, including for Funnyhouse of a Negro in 1964, June and Jean in Concert in 1996 and Sleep Deprivation Chamber, which she co-authored with her son Adam Kennedy.