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Lydia R. Diamond

Lydia R. Diamond, (playwright) is an award-winning playwright whose work includes The Huntington productions of Smart People, Stick Fly, Lizzie Stranton and Voyeurs de VenusStick Fly (Broadway run at Cort Theatre), Toni Stone (2022 at Alliance Theatre, 2021 at Arena Stage DC, 2019 premiere at Roundabout Theatre Company), The Bluest Eye (Off-Broadway run at The Duke) and Harriet Jacobs (Steppenwolf Theatre).


Lydia R. Diamond, (playwright) is an award-winning playwright whose work includes The Huntington productions of Smart People, Stick Fly, Lizzie Stranton and Voyeurs de VenusStick Fly (Broadway run at Cort Theatre), Toni Stone (2022 at Alliance Theatre, 2021 at Arena Stage DC, 2019 premiere at Roundabout Theatre Company), The Bluest Eye (Off-Broadway run at The Duke) and Harriet Jacobs (Steppenwolf Theatre). Her work has also been performed at Goodman Theatre, Congo Square and Company One. Diamond has been a Huntington Playwright Fellow, a W. E. B. DuBois Institute Fellow at Harvard, a Sundance Playwright Lab Creative Advisor, a Harvard Radcliffe Institute Fellow, a National Endowment for the Arts/Theatre Communications Group playwright, and currently on faculty at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

(As of January 2022)