SELECTED AWARDS & HONORS
TEN PULITZER PRIZES
Ayad Akhtar, playwright Annie Baker, playwright Nilo Cruz, playwright Bruce Norris, playwright Annie Proulx, fiction Paula Vogel, playwright Colson Whitehead, fiction Doug Wright, playwright Charles Wuorinen, composer Du Yun, composer NINE MACARTHUR FOUNDATION “GENIUS” GRANTS Annie Baker, playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, playwright Josh Kun, writer and curator Jason Moran, composer Claudia Rankine, poet and essayist Sarah Ruhl, playwright Karen Russell, fiction Colson Whitehead, fiction Charles Wuorinen, composer NINE NATIONAL BOOK AWARDS Sigrid Nunez, fiction Sarah M. Broom, nonfiction Susan Choi, fiction Ha Jin, fiction Annie Proulx, fiction Bob Shacochis, fiction Andrew Solomon, nonfiction Jean Valentine, poetry Colson Whitehead, fiction |
EIGHT TONY AWARDS William Finn, writer and composer Robert Freedman, writer Adam Guettel, writer and composer Bruce Norris, writer Billy Porter, actor Ruben Santiago-Hudson, actor and playwright Jeanine Tesori, composer Doug Wright, playwright TWO ACADEMY AWARDS Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, co-lyricists (“City of Stars,” La La Land) GOLDEN GLOBE AWARDS Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, co-lyricists, twice (for songs in La La Land and The Greatest Showman) EMMY AWARDS Billy Porter, actor SAMPLE MOVIES BASED ON WORKS BY UCROSS ALUMNI Eat Pray Love (Elizabeth Gilbert) Brokeback Mountain and The Shipping News (Annie Proulx) The Son (Philipp Meyer) Billy Lynn’s Long Half-Time Walk (Ben Fountain) Mudbound (Hillary Jordan) Wild (Cheryl Strayed) UNITED STATES POET LAUREATE Joy Harjo, 2019- |
Plus more than 80 John Simon Guggenheim Fellowships, 27 United States Artist Fellowships, 20 Whiting Foundation Writer’s Awards,
11 PEN Hemingway Awards, 5 Herb Alpert Awards in the Arts, and many more.
11 PEN Hemingway Awards, 5 Herb Alpert Awards in the Arts, and many more.