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Clybourne Park wins Pulitzer Prize for Drama! Bruce Norris' Clybourne Park, the first play of Steppenwolf's 11/12 Season, has won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Read more about it in the Chicago Tribune, the Chicago Sun-Times, the New York Times and the LA Times.

Bruce is a writer and an actor whose play Clybourne Park premiered at Playwrights Horizons (New York) in January of 2010. Other plays include The Infidel (2000), Purple Heart (2002), We All Went Down to Amsterdam (2003), The Pain and the Itch (2004) and The Unmentionables (2006), all of which premiered at Steppenwolf Theatre. His work has also been produced at Lookingglass Theatre, Philadelphia Theatre Company, Woolly Mammoth Theatre (Washington, DC), The Royal Court Theater (London), and The Staatstheater Mainz (Germany). Mr. Norris is the recipient of the 2009 Steinberg Playwright Award, the Whiting Foundation Prize for Drama, and the Kesselring Prize, Honorable Mention. He also received Joseph Jefferson Awards for Best New Work for his plays, We All Went Down to Amsterdam and The Pain and the Itch. As an actor, he has been seen at Steppenwolf in Closer and Picasso at the Lapin Agile, and can be seen in the upcoming film All Good Things. He currently resides in New York.