Overview
- Liberation, awarded Monday, won the 2026 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, which grants playwright Bess Wohl $15,000.
- Finalists were Nazareth Hassan’s Bowl EP and Talene Monahon’s Meet the Cartozians, both Off-Broadway works not eligible for Tuesday’s Tony nominations.
- The play is a memory drama about a 1970s feminist group in Ohio and a daughter who later searches that history for answers.
- After an Off-Broadway premiere in early 2025, the production moved to Broadway from October 2025 to February 1, 2026 under director Whitney White.
- The recognition could lift the show’s Tony prospects, a pattern echoed when last year’s Pulitzer winner Purpose went on to win the Tony for best play.