Spotlight on ‘Sanctuary City’ playwright Martyna Majok
Theatre Conspiracy opens its 2023-2024 season with Martyna Majok’s touching drama Sanctuary City August 17 through the 27th.
Majok was awarded the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for her play, Cost of Living. Besides Cost of Living and Sanctuary City, the Polish born, Jersey/Chicago product is also 
known for Queens and Ironbound, which have been produced on both American and international stages.
Supported in part by a grant from the National Endowment of the Arts, Sanctuary City was the recipient of an Edgerton Foundation New Play Award and a Laurents/Hatcher Foundation Theater Development Grant. Majok’s other awards include The Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding New Play, The Greenfield Prize, as the first female recipient in drama, The Champions of Change Award from the NYC Mayor’s Office, The Francesca Primus Prize, two Jane Chambers Playwriting Awards, The Lanford Wilson Prize, The Lilly Award’s Stacey Mindich Prize, Helen Merrill Emerging Playwright Award, Charles MacArthur 
Award for Outstanding Original New Play from The Helen Hayes Awards, Jean Kennedy Smith Playwriting Award, ANPF Women’s Invitational Prize, David Calicchio Prize, Global Age Project Prize, NYTW 2050 Fellowship, NNPN Smith Prize for Political Playwriting, and Merage Foundation Fellowship for The American Dream.
Martyna studied at Yale School of Drama, Juilliard, University of Chicago, and Jersey public schools. She was a 2012-2013 NNPN playwright-in-residence, the 2015-2016 PoNY Fellow at the Lark Play Development Center, and a 2018-2019 Hodder Fellow at Princeton University.
Martyna is currently writing a musical adaptation of The Great Gatsby, with music by Florence Welch and Thomas Bartlett.
She is also developing an original series for HBO based on her play, Queens.
She lives in New York City.
August 2, 2023.
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