María Irene Fornés - Awards & Nominations

Date of Birth	14-May-1930
Place of Birth	Havana (Cuba, Cuba Island)
Nationality	Cuba, United States of America
Also know as	Maria Irene Fornes
Profession	Writer, Playwright, Theatre Director
MarÃa Irene FornÃ©s is a Cuban-American avant garde playwright and director who is associated with the establishment of the Off-Off-Broadway movement in the 1960s. FornÃ©s' themes focused on poverty and feminism. In 1965, she won her first Distinguished Plays Obie Award for Promenade and The Successful Life of 3. She was also a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize with her play And What of the Night? Other notable works include Fefu and Her Friends, Mud, Letters from Cuba and Sarita. FornÃ©s became known in both Hispanic-American and experimental theatre in New York, winning a total of nine Obie Awards.

Awards by María Irene Fornés

Check all the awards nominated and won by María Irene Fornés.

2002

Laura Pels Foundation Awards for Drama

2000

Obie Award for Special Citations	Honored for : Letters From Cuba

1990

Nominations 1990 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Pulitzer Prize for Drama	What of the Night?

1988

Obie Award for Best New American Play	Honored for : Abingdon Square

1985

Obie Award for Best New American Play	Honored for : The Conduct of Life

1984

Obie Award for Playwriting	Honored for : The Danube, Sarita, Mud
Obie Award for Direction	Honored for : The Danube, Sarita, Mud

1982

Obie Award for Lifetime Achievement	(Obie Award for Sustained Achievement)

1979

Obie Award for Direction	Honored for : Eyes on the Harem

1977

Obie Award for Playwriting	Honored for : Fefu and Her Friends

1972

Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, US & Canada	(Drama & Performance Art)

1965

Obie Award for Distinguished Plays	Honored for : Promenade, The Successful Life of 3

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