Awards & Winners

María Irene Fornés

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
María Irene Fornés is a Cuban-American avant garde playwright and director who is associated with the establishment of the Off-Off-Broadway movement in the 1960s. Fornés' 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. Fornés 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.

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

1965


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