| Adrienne Kennedy began to write and have her plays produced in the 1960s. She has been commissioned to write plays for the Public Theater, Jerome Robbins, The Royal Court, the Mark Taper Forum, and Julliard. Kennedy has been a visiting lecturer at many universities, including Yale, Princeton, Brown, New York University, the University of California at Berkeley, and Harvard and received an honorary doctorate from Ohio State University in 2003. Her plays have been widely anthologized and performed around the world. Kennedy is the recipient of an award in literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Guggenheim fellowship, a Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Fund Writers' Award, the Pierre LeComte duNouy Foundation Award, the Anisfield-Wolf Lifetime Achievement Book Award, the PEN/Laura Pels Foundation Award for Drama and three Obies. Kennedy's biography is listed in Who's Who in America. |  |