The Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust will soon present its biennial Steinberg Distinguished Playwright Award to David Henry Hwang. The prestigious award, a cash prize of $200,000, was presented to Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Lynn Nottage two years ago.

Nottage said the cushion of the award enabled her to pursue her current, most ambitious project to date, an interactive performance installation in Reading, Pennsylvania.

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