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.