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.
Honorees Following is a list of winners and finalists of the Lambda Literary Award for Drama. Year Author Title Result 1995Angels in America: PerestroikaWinnerHeroes and Saints & Other PlaysFinalistJeffreySecond Coming of Joan of ArcThe Night Larry Kramer Kissed Me1996Slavs (Thinking About the Longstanding Problems of Virtue and Happiness)Winner and Rose TrocheGo FishFinalistLove! Valour! Compassion!T-Cells and Sympathy and Nina Shengold (eds.)The Actor's Book of Gay and Lesbian Plays1997Split BritchesWInnerActing=LifeFinalistAmazon All-StarsClit NotesThree Plays by Crowley1998Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar WildeWinnerMonsters in the ClosetFinalistPorcelain and A Language of Their OwnRentThree Plays by Mae West1999O Solo HomoWinner and David RomanMr. Universe and Other PlaysFinalistPlace For UsStagestruck: Theater, Aids, and the Marketing of Gay AmericaThe Vagina Monologues2000What I Meant WasWinnerCorpus ChristiFinalistLovesickOf All the NervePrepare for Saints: Gertrude Stein, Virgil Thomson, and the Mainstreaming of American Modernism2001 and Stephen TraskHedwig and the Angry InchWinner, Maureen Angelos, Dominique Dibbell, Peg Healey and Babs DavyFive Lesbian BrothersFinalistI, Carmelita TropicanaThe Beginning of AugustThe Most Fabulous Story Ever Told2002No award presented2003No award presented2004ProkWinnerForbidden ActsFinalistMotifs & Repetitions & Other PlaysThe Band PlaysWomen in Turmoil: Six Plays2005I Am My Own WifeWinnerFabulous!FinalistHow to Make Dances in an Epidemiclove conjure/bluesThe Queer Encyclopedia of Music, Dance and Musical Theater2006No award presented20071001 BedsWinnerConfessions of a Mormon BoyFinalistQuesta2008 and George Birimisa (eds.)Return to the Caffe CinoWinnerDose: Plays & MonologuesFinalistNiagara Falls2009The Second Coming of Joan of ArcWinnerPhi Alpha GammaFinalistRadical Acts: Collected Political PlaysTwo Truths and a LieVile Affections2010The Collected Plays of Mart CrowleyWinnerRevenge of the Women's Studies ProfessorFinalist and Linda S. ChapmanThe Beebo Brinker Chronicles2011, Dominique Dibbell, Peg Healey and Lisa KronOedipus at Palm Springs: A Five Lesbian Brothers PlayWinnerLydiaFinalistSlippingThe Brother/Sister PlaysWith Bated Breath2012A Menopausal Gentleman: The Solo Performances of Peggy ShawWinnerLetters to the End of the WorldFinalistSecrets of the TradeThe TemperamentalsThe Zero Hour2013The Myopia and Other PlaysWinnerA Strange and Separate PeopleFinalistEdith Can Shoot Things and Hit ThemFalling in TimeThunder Above, Deeps Below2014Tom at the FarmWinnerLas Hociconas: Three Locas with Big Mouths and Even Bigger BrainsFinalistsash & trim and other plays2015BootycandyWinnerA Kid Like JakeFinalistThe Beast of TimesThe WhaleWolves2016Bright Half LifeWinner and Lisa KronFun HomeFinalistHirLove AloneThe Mystery of Love and Sex2017Barbecue/BootycandyWinnerFreda and Jem's Best of the WeekFinalistPerfect Arrangement2018The GulfWinnerComposureFinalistEverybody's Talking About JamieHow Black Mothers Say I Love YouIndecent2019Draw the CircleWinnerBlack LightFinalistCollective Rage: A Play in Five BettiesPlot Points in Our Sexual DevelopmentSinglet2020A Strange LoopWinnerDr. Ride's American Beach HouseFinalistThe Amateurs2021The Book of Mountains and SeasWinnerBabelFinalist and Jill SobuleF*ck7thGradeHouse PlantSafe Space2022Mrs. HarrisonWinnerLove Like LightFinaliststoräe michelemama [rose.] Pillow TalkThrive, or What You Will {an epic}2023Ho Ka Kei (Jeff Ho)Iphigenia and the Furies (On Taurian Land) & Antigone: 方WinnerDuecentomilaFinalistRock 'n' Roll Heretic (writer) and Alex Syiek (music and lyrics)Wolf Play 2024 Fat Ham Winner For Both Resting and BreedingFinalist I Wanna Fuck Like Romeo and Juliet Joan of Arkansas the bandaged place2025WinnerBathhouse.pptxFinalistCasey and DianaGoldie, Max & MilkIn the Amazon Warehouse Parking Lot2026Ain't No Mo'Winner, translated by MoMo HoltAnother Kind of SilenceFinalistMercutio Loves Romeo Loves Juliet LovesPrince FaggotHeartlines: A Love Story
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Lambda Literary Awards