Bruce Norris (b.1960 - ) graduated from Northwestern University and became an actor and playwright based in Chicago and New York. He is currently an ensemble member of Steppenwolf Theatre, but his plays have been produced across the country as well as abroad. Clybourne Park is his most acclaimed work, winning a Tony Award, the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, the Laurence Olivier Award, the Evening Standard Award, and the London Critics Circle Award for Best New Play. His catalogue of plays also includes The Infidel, Purple Heart, We All Went Down to Amsterdam, The Pain and the Itch, The Unmentionables, A Parallelogram, Domesticated, The Qualms, and Downstate all of which had their premieres at Steppenwolf Theatre over the course of 18 years. He has also written The Actor Retires, The Vanishing Twin, The Low Road, and an adaptation of Brecht’s Arturo Ui. He was the recipient of the Steinberg Playwright Award, the Whiting Foundation Prize for Drama, as well as two Joseph Jefferson Awards for Best New Work.