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Eboni Booth is an American playwright and actress. She is a graduate of
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, the
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, and a graduate of the Juilliard Playwrighting Fellowship. She has been a resident playwright at
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and was a recipient of the Steinberg Playwright Grant in 2021. In 2021, she was awarded the Helen Merrill Award for Playwriting. She was awarded the John Gassner Award For New American Plays by the
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for her play ''Paris''. She also studied playwrighting at the Primary Stages Einhorn School of Performing Arts. Her play '' Primary Trust'' debuted Off-Broadway at the
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to critical success, including nominations for the
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for Outstanding New Play. The play was awarded the
Pulitzer Prize for Drama The Pulitzer Prize for Drama is one of the seven American Pulitzer Prizes that are annually awarded for Letters, Drama, and Music. It is one of the original Pulitzers, for the program was inaugurated in 1917 with seven prizes, four of which were a ...
in 2024.


Plays

* ''Paris'' * '' Primary Trust''


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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Booth, Eboni Living people Pulitzer Prize for Drama winners 21st-century American dramatists and playwrights African-American dramatists and playwrights Writers from New York City Juilliard School alumni University of Vermont alumni Year of birth missing (living people) African-American actresses