Cost of Living (TCG Edition)

Winner, Pulitzer Prize for Drama, 2018

Other awards for Cost of Living: Edgerton New Play Prize (2016), Jean Kennedy Smith Prize—The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (2016), Women's Invitational—Ashland New Plays Festival

2016 NY Times Critics' Pick

Cost of Living received its New York premiere at Manhattan Theatre Club in June 2017, following a world premiere at Williamstown Theatre Festival.

Majok, born in Poland before immigrating to the United States at a young age, frequently gives voices to the voiceless and explores underrepresented communities in her writing.

Majok has received many other honors for her writing, including:

• The Dramatists Guild Lanford Wilson Award, The Lilly Awards' Stacey Mindich Prize, The Greenfield Prize (first female recipient in drama), Helen Merrill Emerging Playwright Award, 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, and The Merage Foundation Fellowship for the American Dream.

Majok is an alumna of EST's Youngblood and Women's Project Lab.

She has taught playwriting at Williams College, Wesleyan University, SUNY Purchase, Primary Stages ESPA, NJRep, and as an assistant to Paula Vogel at Yale.

She is a 2018-2019 Hodder Fellow at Princeton University.