Lydia Gartin Diamond

Lydia Gartin Diamond received her degree in 1991 and is currently a playwright living in Cambridge, MA. She is the author of Solitaire, recipient of the Agnes Nixon Playwriting Award at Northwestern; The Inside, a one-woman show; and Here I Am...See If Can You Handle It, a one-woman show adapted from the poems and writings of Nikki Giovanni. As a resident playwright at Chicago Dramatists, she developed and staged readings of several works, including Stage Black, which premiered at the Cincinnati Arts Consortium in 2000, and The Gift Horse, first place recipient of the Theodore Ward Playwright Award and selected by The Goodman Theatre as part of their 2001-02 season. More recent work includes an adaptation of Toni Morisson's The Bluest Eye for The Steppenwolf Theatre.