Ironbound and Other Plays

Martyna Majokwas born in Bytom, Poland, and raised in New Jersey and Chicago. She was awarded the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for her playCost of Living, which was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Play in 2023. Other plays includeSanctuary City,Queens, andIronbound, which have been produced across American and international stages. Other awards include the Obie Award for Playwriting, the Hull-Warriner Award, the Academy of Arts and Letters’ Benjamin Hadley Danks Award for Exceptional Playwriting, the Off Broadway Alliance Award for Best New Play, the Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Play, the Hermitage Greenfield Prize (first female recipient in drama), the Champion of Change Award from the New York City Mayor’s Office, the Francesca Primus Prize, two Jane Chambers Playwriting Awards, the Lanford Wilson Award, The Lilly Awards’ Stacey Mindich Award, the Helen Merrill Award for Playwriting, the Charles MacArthur Award for Outstanding Original New Play from the Helen Hayes Awards, the Jean Kennedy Smith Playwriting Award, the Ashland New Plays Festival Women’s Invitational Prize, the David Calicchio Emerging American Playwright Prize, the Global Age Project Prize, a New York Theatre Workshop 2050 Fellowship, the National New Play Network (NNPN) Smith Prize for Political Playwriting, and the Merage Foundation Fellowship for the American Dream. Martyna studied at Yale School of Drama, Juilliard, University of Chicago, and New 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 ofThe Great Gatsby, with music by Florence Welch and Thomas Bartlett, and writing and developing projects for TV and film.