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Majok is known for exploring underrepresented communities in her writing. She often gives voices to immigrants or displaced people, women with appetites and drives orbiting around their limitations, the working class, and persons with disabilities.
When Martyna Majok won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama last year for Cost of Living, she quickly became known as a playwright who spotlights perspectives not often seen on American stages.
Martyna Majok’s artistic road led her from Bytom’s industrial landscape to the Pulitzer Prize. She is a playwright of Polish descent with US citizenship. Her works tell of economical and class issues afflicting women, she also does not stray from autobiographical themes.
The Polish American playwright was awarded the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for her play ‘Cost of Living’.
Mar 21, 2018 · When playwright Martyna Majok was a young girl, she, her mother, and her sister, emigrated from Poland to the United States. She grew up in a low-income household, unable to afford visits back to...
MARTYNA MAJOK: My mom is an immigrant who worked in a factory and cleaned houses. New York was close by where we lived in New Jersey, but the theater world seemed so distant because of how expensive it is.
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Aug 21, 2022 · In January 2014, on a freezing and blizzardy New York night, Martyna Majok came home to her sublet from her bartending job filled with rage and sadness.
