Ironbound & Sanctuary City

Exploring the Immigrant Experience: Majok, born in Poland before immigrating to the United States at a young age, frequently explores the plight of immigrants and underrepresented communities in her writing. Awards and Honors for Martyna Majok: 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Drama*,* The Dramatists Guild Lanford Wilson Award, The Lilly Awards’ Stacey Mindich Prize, The Greenfield Prize (first female recipient in drama), Helen Merrill Emerging Playwright Award, New York Theatre Workshop’s 2050 Fellowship, Aurora Theatre’s Global Age Project Prize, National New Play Network’s Smith Prize for Political Playwriting, Jane Chambers Student Feminist Playwriting Prize, and The Merage Foundation Fellowship for the American Dream. Ironbound received its world premiere at Steppenwolf Theatre Company. Off-Broadway premiere at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater. Ironbound received the Charles MacArthur Award for Outstanding Original New Play or Musical, Helen Hayes Award, the David Calicchio Emerging American Playwright Prize, Global Age Project Prize, and the National New Play Network/Smith Prize for Political Playwriting. Sanctuary City received its world premiere at New York Theatre Workshop in the spring of 2020. The initial run was cut short by the pandemic, but picked up again in September 2021. The play was a New York Times Critic’s Pick and the recipient of the Edgerton Foundation New Play Award. Institutional Affiliations: Majok is an alumna of EST’s Youngblood and Women's Project Lab. 2018-2019 Hodder Fellow at Princeton University. She has taught playwriting at Williams College, Wesleyan University, SUNY Purchase, Primary Stages ESPA, NJRep, and as an assistant to Paula Vogel at Yale. Forthcoming HBO Series: Majok is currently working on adapting her her play queens into a series for HBO. Great Gatsby Musical: Majok is also working on a musical stage adaptation of The Great Gatsby with Florence Welch (Florence + The Machine) and Thomas Bartlett, with a timeline for a pre-Broadway engagement TBA.