Eboni Booth

Eboni Booth is an American playwright and actress.¹ She won the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for her play, Primary Trust.²

Booth's first experience in theatre came as a child performing in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory at Lehman College and attending sleepaway camps for theatre.³ She eventually enrolled in New York City's Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School, and later studied at the University of Vermont, and received a Juilliard Playwrighting Fellowship.⁴ She has been a resident playwright at New Dramatists and was a recipient of the Steinberg Playwright Grant in 2021.⁵She also studied playwrighting at the Primary Stages Einhorn School of Performing Arts.⁶

In 2020, her first play, Paris, premiered Off-Broadway at the Atlantic Theatre Company. The play follows the story of working-class employees at a big box store in the titular town in Vermont. The show received positive reviews, with The New York Times calling it "coolly observant" and a "realistically acted, astutely written play."⁷ For her work, she was awarded the Helen Merrill Award for Playwriting.⁸ and the John Gassner Award For New American Plays by the Outer Critics Circle Awards.⁹¹⁰

Her play Primary Trust debuted Off-Broadway at the Laura Pels Theatre to critical success, including nominations for the Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding New Play.¹¹ The play was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 2024.¹²

• Paris
• Primary Trust