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One afternoon in mid-June, the playwright Katori Hall glanced at her phone. A text had come in from a former agent. “OMG,” it read. Hall was confused. Then her agent phoned, telling her she had just won this year’s Pulitzer prize for drama.
“And I was like, ‘Whaaat?!’” Hall recalls. “I started screaming and running around in circles in my house.” Her young son was less impressed. “He was like, ‘Mom, be quiet. I’m looking at YouTube.’”
The Hot Wing King, was described in the citation as “a funny, deeply felt consideration of Black masculinity and how it is perceived, filtered through the experiences of a loving gay couple and their extended family as they prepare for a culinary competition”. (The runners-up included Michael Breslin and Patrick Foley’s Circle Jerk, an online show, and Zora Howard’s
