from MPAACT (2008)Lydia Diamond’s plays include: The Gift Horse, The Goodman (Theodore Ward 1st Place, Kesselring Prize 2nd Place); The Bluest Eye, Steppenwolf (World Premiere, Black Arts Alliance Image Award – Best New Play), New Vic, Theatre Alliance, Plowshares, Playmakers Rep, Horizon Theatre Co., Freedom Theatre, Providence Black Rep, Lorraine Hansberry Theatre, Long Wharf/Hartford Stage, Company One (Elliot Norton – Best Fringe Production ’08 Nomination), and Jubilee Theatre; Voyeurs de Venus, Chicago Dramatists (’06 Joseph Jefferson Award – Best New Work, ‘06 Black Theatre Alliance Award – Best Writing), Company One (Fall, ’08); Stick Fly (’08 Susan Smith Blackburn Finalist), Congo Square (World Premiere, ’06 BTAA – Best Play, ’06 Joseph Jeff Nomination – Best New Work), True Colors, The McCarter, L.A. Theatre Works, and Contemporary American Theatre Festival; Harriet Jacobs, Steppenwolf (World Premiere), Staged Readings at Old Vic, U.K., and The Kennedy Center; Stage Black, Cincinnati Arts Consortium, MPAACT (‘09); and The Inside, MPAACT Theatre Co. and Nat’l Tour. Lydia is currently working on commissions for The McCarter, Victory Gardens/Humana, and Huntington Theatre Companies. The Bluest Eye, The Gift Horse, and Stage Black are published by Dramatic Publishing. The Gift Horse is anthologized in Northwestern University Press’ 7 Black Plays, ed. Chuck Smith. Stick Fly, published 2009, Northwestern University Press. Lydia holds a B.S. in Performance Studies from Northwestern University, is a resident playwright at Chicago Dramatists, a 2006-2007 Huntington Playwright Fellow, and an ’07/’08 TCG/NEA playwright in residence at The Steppenwolf, and is a TCG Board Member. Lydia Diamond has taught at Columbia College Chicago, DePaul University, Loyola, and is currently on faculty at Boston University.
http://www.mpaact.org/blog/2008/12/lydia-diamond-biography.php
http://www.mpaact.org/blog/2008/12/lydia-diamond-biography.php
from McCarter Theatre (2007) 
Lydia R. Diamond is a Huntington Playwriting Fellow and a Resident Playwright at Chicago Dramatists. Her plays include: The Gift Horse (Goodman Theatre, Kesselring Prize-2nd Place), Stick Fly (Black Theatre Alliance Award - Best Play, Congo Square, True Colors Theatre Co.), Voyeurs de Venus (Joseph Jefferson Award - Best New Play, BTAA - Best Writing, World Premiere Chicago Dramatists), and an adaptation of Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye (Black Arts Alliance Image Award – Best New Play; Steppenwolf Theatre, The New Vic, NY, Playmakers Rep, Theatre Alliance, D.C., New Freedom Theatre, Plowshares, and upcoming at Long Wharf Theatre Co., Hartford Stage, Providence Black Rep, Lorraine Hansberry Theatre, and Company One, Boston.). Ms. Diamond’s newest play, Harriet Jacobs, received public readings at The Kennedy Center and London’s Old Vic, and will premiere at Steppenwolf in February, where Ms. Diamond is a TCG/NEA Playwright in Residence. The Gift Horse is published in 7 Black Plays, and The Bluest Eye, The Gift Horse, and Stage Black will all be available through Dramatic Publishing. Ms. Diamond is a graduate of Northwestern University and currently teaches at Boston University.
http://www.mccarter.org/ticketoffice/artistdetail.aspx?artist_id=99975509&event_id=3189
Lydia R. Diamond is a Huntington Playwriting Fellow and a Resident Playwright at Chicago Dramatists. Her plays include: The Gift Horse (Goodman Theatre, Kesselring Prize-2nd Place), Stick Fly (Black Theatre Alliance Award - Best Play, Congo Square, True Colors Theatre Co.), Voyeurs de Venus (Joseph Jefferson Award - Best New Play, BTAA - Best Writing, World Premiere Chicago Dramatists), and an adaptation of Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye (Black Arts Alliance Image Award – Best New Play; Steppenwolf Theatre, The New Vic, NY, Playmakers Rep, Theatre Alliance, D.C., New Freedom Theatre, Plowshares, and upcoming at Long Wharf Theatre Co., Hartford Stage, Providence Black Rep, Lorraine Hansberry Theatre, and Company One, Boston.). Ms. Diamond’s newest play, Harriet Jacobs, received public readings at The Kennedy Center and London’s Old Vic, and will premiere at Steppenwolf in February, where Ms. Diamond is a TCG/NEA Playwright in Residence. The Gift Horse is published in 7 Black Plays, and The Bluest Eye, The Gift Horse, and Stage Black will all be available through Dramatic Publishing. Ms. Diamond is a graduate of Northwestern University and currently teaches at Boston University.
http://www.mccarter.org/ticketoffice/artistdetail.aspx?artist_id=99975509&event_id=3189
