1998 Princess Grace Award
New Dramatists Playwriting Fellow
Additional Grants:
2026 Special Project Grant
Victor Lodato is a playwright and the author of the novels Honey, Edgar and Lucy, and Mathilda Savitch, winner of the PEN Center USA Award for fiction. He is the recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. His stories and essays regularly appear in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Granta, and elsewhere. For his theatre work, he has received the Weissberger Award for his play Motherhouse, and the PEN USA Award for Arlington (a collaboration with composer Polly Pen). His work has been produced and developed at venues such as Vineyard Theatre, Magic Theater, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Manhattan Theatre Club, The Guthrie Theatre, Williamstown Theatre Festival, and American Conservatory Theatre. Born and raised in New Jersey, Victor currently divides his time between Ashland, Oregon, and Tucson, Arizona.