Eboni Booth

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

Career 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. 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. She has been a resident playwright at New Dramatists and was a recipient of the Steinberg Playwright Grant in 2021. She also studied playwrighting at the Primary Stages Einhorn School of Performing Arts.

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." For her work, she was awarded the Helen Merrill Award for Playwriting. and the John Gassner Award For New American Plays by the Outer Critics Circle Awards.

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. The play was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 2024.

Plays Paris Primary Trust

Filmography

Stage credits

Awards and nominations