For the third straight year, the Pulitzer Prize for Drama has been awarded to a woman playwright. The Hollywood Reporter confirms Jackie Sibblies Drury won the Pulitzer for “Fairview.” Described as “a meta-theatrical work,” the play sees the Frasiers, a black family, preparing for their grandmother’s birthday party. What starts out as a comedy “morphs into a twisty discourse on race, representation, identity, and performance.”

“Fairview” is “a hard-hitting drama that examines race in a highly conceptual, layered structure, ultimately bringing audiences into the actors’ community to face deep-seated prejudices,” the Pulitzer board declared.

Last year the Pulitzer for Drama went to Martyna Majok’s exploration of people living with disabilities and their caregivers, “Cost of Living.” In 2017 Lynn Nottage won her second Pulitzer — and became the first woman to achieve that milestone — for “Sweat,” which examines dissatisfaction, anger, and resentment among the working class.

Drury received the 2019 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize for “Fairview.” The play had sold-out engagements at Berkeley Repertory Theatre and Soho Rep in 2018, and is set to run June 2-30 at Brooklyn’s Theatre for a New Audience. It will make its London debut at Young Vic in November.

Drury’s latest play, “Marys Seacole,” finished a stint at Lincoln Center this past Sunday. The play tells the story of Mary, an ambitious Jamaican woman who travels across oceans, continents, and eras in search of a grand life. “We Are Proud to Present a Presentation About the Herero of Namibia, Formerly Known as South West Africa, From the German Sudwestafrika, Between the Years 1884-1915” and “Social Creatures” are among Drury’s other titles.