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Martyna Majokwas born in Bytom, Poland, and raised in Jersey and Chicago. She was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Drama forCost of Living, which was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Play. She is the recipient of many awards including the Arthur Miller Foundation Legacy Award, a Steinberg, an Obie, a Lucille Lortel, an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award, a Champions of Change Award from New York City's Mayoral Office, the Lanford Wilson Award, a Lilly Award, and the Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University. Martyna wrote the libretto forGatsby, with music by Florence Welch and Thomas Bartlett. She has developed TV projects for HBO, and is writing feature films for Plan B/Pastel/MGM and Participant. lan B/Pastel/MGM and Participant.
"""If Martyna Majok's talent weren't so impressive and her subject so imper-ative, it would be easy to leave her in peace with her Pulitzer. But the Amer-ican theater needs her sensibility right now . . . Majok has made it her mission to bring to the stage those characters who historically have played a subor-dinate role in the theater--the name-less, faceless workers who are hanging on by a thread."" --Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times ""A knockout . . . You seldom see plays that are both harsh and wonderful, but that is the balance that Majok strikes in Ironbound."" --Nelson Pressley, Washington Post ""A quietly gripping play . . . Majok's perceptive drama, Ironbound, with its bone-dry humor and vivid characters, illustrates how vulnerable people like Darja are hostages to the vagaries of chance."" --Charles Isherwood, New York Times ""In Sanctuary City, America is in the background, and it threatens to take control of the story at any moment. But we understand these two charac-ters because, at Majok's urging, we've taken their timbres into our minds and put them in their rightful places: the unique person over and above the faceless crowd."" --Vinson Cunningham, New Yorker"
