Awards and Honors
Ms. Kennedy has won two Obie Awards: "Distinguished Play" in 1964 for Funnyhouse of a Negro, and "Best new American Play" in 1996 for June and Jean in Concert and Sleep Deprivation Chamber. In 1994 she won both the Lila Wallace—Reader's Digest Writers' Award and the American Academy of Arts and Letters in Literature Award. She was also granted a Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Writing (1967), two Rockefeller Foundation Grants (1967 & 1970), a Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts (1972), the Creative Artists Public Service grant in 1974, the 2003 Lifetime Achievement Award from the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards, and the Pierre Lecomte du Novy Award In 2006, Kennedy received the PEN/Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater Award as a Master American Dramatist.
Kennedy was playwright-in-residence at the Signature Theatre in New York City during their 1996-1997 season. Seven of her plays were performed during her residency.
In 2003, Ms. Kennedy was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Literature by her undergraduate alma mater, the Ohio State University.
Ms. Kennedy was honored at the 2008 Obie Awards with a Lifetime Achievement Award.
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