Cost of Living (TCG Edition)

Cost of Living (TCG Edition) is the winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, 2018.

In addition to this prestigious award, Cost of Living has received several other accolades such as the Edgerton New Play Prize (2016), the Jean Kennedy Smith Prize from The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (2016), and was part of the Women's Invitational at the Ashland New Plays Festival. The play was also a 2016 New York Times Critics' Pick.

Cost of Living premiered in New York at the Manhattan Theatre Club in June 2017, after its world premiere at the Williamstown Theatre Festival.

Martyna Majok, the brilliant playwright behind Cost of Living, was born in Poland and immigrated to the United States as a child. Her writing often gives voice to the voiceless and explores underrepresented communities.

Majok's numerous honours include: the Dramatists Guild Lanford Wilson Award, The Lilly Awards' Stacey Mindich Prize, The Greenfield Prize (as the first female recipient in drama), the Helen Merrill Emerging Playwright Award, and the Charles MacArthur Award for Outstanding Original New Play or Musical at The Helen Hayes Awards.

• Marin Theatre's David Calicchio Emerging American Playwright Prize
• New York Theatre Workshop's 2050 Fellowship
• Aurora Theatre's Global Age Project Prize
• National New Play Network's Smith Prize for Political Playwriting
• Jane Chambers Student Feminist Playwriting Prize
• The Merage Foundation Fellowship for the American Dream

Majok is an alumna of EST's Youngblood and Women's Project Lab. She has shared her expertise through teaching playwriting at various institutions including Williams College, Wesleyan University, SUNY Purchase, Primary Stages ESPA, NJRep, and served as an assistant to Paula Vogel at Yale.

Currently, she is a 2018-2019 Hodder Fellow at Princeton University.