The Hull-Warriner Award is an award bestowed by the Dramatists Guild of America

Dramatists Guild of America

The Dramatists Guild of America is a professional organization for playwrights, composers, and lyricists working in the U.S. theatre market.Membership as an Associate Member is open to any person having written at least one stage play. Active Members are playwrights who have had at least one play...

. The award is unique in that it is given by dramatists

Playwright

A playwright, also called a dramatist, is a person who writes plays.The term is not a variant spelling of "playwrite", but something quite distinct: the word wright is an archaic English term for a craftsman or builder...

 to dramatists. It is presented annually by the Dramatists Guild Council to an author, or team of authors, in recognition of their work dealing with difficult subjects including political, religious, and social mores of the times.

Awardees

• 2006: Steven Sater & Duncan Sheik Spring Awakening
• 2005: Adam Guettel & Craig Lucas The Light In The Piazza
• 2004: John Patrick Shanley Doubt
• 2003: Doug Wright I Am My Own Wife
• 2002: Dael Orlandersmith Yellowman
• 2001: Tony Kushner Homebody/Kabul
• 2000: David Auburn Proof
• 1999: Donald Margulies Dinner With Friends
• 1998: Margaret Edson Wit
• 1997: Paula Vogel How I Learned To Drive
• 1996: August Wilson Seven Guitars
• 1995: Emily Mann Having Our Say
• 1994: Edward Albee Three Tall Women
• 1993: Tony Kushner Angels In America
• 1992
  • Larry Kramer The Destiny Of Me
  • John Leguizamo Spic-O-Rama
  • Donald Margulies Sight Unseen
• 1991 Scott McPherson Marvin's Room
• 1990 John Guare Six Degrees Of Separation

• 1989 Terrence McNally
  Terrence McNally
  Terrence McNally is an American playwright who has received four Tony Awards, an Emmy, two Guggenheim Fellowships, a Rockefeller Grant, the Lucille Lortel Award, the Hull-Warriner Award, and a citation from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He has been a member of the Council of the...
  
   The Lisbon Traviata
• 1988 Wendy Wasserstein The Heidi Chronicles
• 1987 Terrence McNally
  Terrence McNally
  Terrence McNally is an American playwright who has received four Tony Awards, an Emmy, two Guggenheim Fellowships, a Rockefeller Grant, the Lucille Lortel Award, the Hull-Warriner Award, and a citation from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He has been a member of the Council of the...
  
   Frankie & Johnnie In The Claire De Lune
• 1986 George C. Wolfe The Colored Museum
• 1985 Christopher Durang The Marriage Of Bette And Boo
• 1984 David Mamet
  David Mamet
  David Alan Mamet is an American playwright, essayist, screenwriter and film director.Best known as a playwright, Mamet won a Pulitzer Prize and received a Tony nomination for Glengarry Glen Ross . He also received a Tony nomination for Speed-the-Plow . As a screenwriter, he received Oscar...
  
   Glengarry Glen Ross
  Glengarry Glen Ross
  Glengarry Glen Ross is a 1984 play written by David Mamet. The play shows parts of two days in the lives of four desperate Chicago real estate agents who are prepared to engage in any number of unethical, illegal acts—from lies and flattery to bribery, threats, intimidation and burglary—to sell...
  
  
• 1983 Marsha Norman night mother
• 1982 Harvey Fierstein
  Harvey Fierstein
  Harvey Forbes Fierstein is a U.S. actor and playwright, noted for the early distinction of winning Tony Awards for both writing and originating the lead role in his long-running play Torch Song Trilogy, about a gay drag-performer and his quest for true love and family, as well as writing the...
  
   Torch Song Trilogy
• 1981 Shirley Lauro Open Admissions
• 1980 Martin Sherman Bent
• 1979 Stephen Sondheim
  Stephen Sondheim
  Stephen Joshua Sondheim is an American composer and lyricist for stage and film. He is the winner of an Academy Award, multiple Tony Awards including the Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre, multiple Grammy Awards, a Pulitzer Prize and the Laurence Olivier Award...
  
   & Hugh Wheeler
  Hugh Wheeler
  Hugh Callingham Wheeler was an English-born playwright, screenwriter, librettist, poet, and translator. He resided in the United States from 1934 until his death and became a naturalized citizen in 1942. He had attended London University.Under the noms de plume Patrick Quentin, Q...
  
   Sweeney Todd
• 1978 John Guare Landscape Of The Body
• 1977 Ronald Ribman
  Ronald Ribman
  Ronald Burt Ribman is an American author, poet and playwright.-Biography:Ribman was born in Sydenham Hospital in New York City to Samuel M. Ribman, a lawyer, and Rosa Ribman. He attended public school in Brooklyn, and graduated P.S. 188 in 1944. Ribman attended Mark Twain Jr. High School,...
  
   Cold Storage
• 1976 Edward Albee
  Edward Albee
  Edward Franklin Albee III is an American playwright who is best known for The Zoo Story , The Sandbox , Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? , and a rewrite of the screenplay for the unsuccessful musical version of Capote's Breakfast at Tiffany's . His works are considered well-crafted, often...
  
  Seascape
• 1975 Miguel Pinero Short Eyes
• 1974 Terrence McNally Bad Habits
• 1973 Joseph A. Walker The River Niger
• 1972 Philip Hayes Dean The Sty Of The Blind Pig
• 1971 David Rabe The Basic Training Of Pavlo Hummel & Streamers