Lydia Diamond’s award-winning plays include: Smart People, Stick Fly (Broadway run at Court Theatre), Voyeurs de Venus, Harriet Jacobs, and The Bluest Eye. Theatres include: Arena Stage, Arden, Second Stage, New Vic, Company One, The Goodman, The Guthrie, Hartford Stage, Huntington, Long Wharf, Steppenwolf, and The McCarter. Diamond has been a W.E.B Du Bois Institute Fellow at Harvard, A Sundance Playwright Lab Creative Advisor, a Harvard Radcliffe Institute Fellow, a Sally B Goodman Fellow, a Huntington Playwright Fellow, and a TCG/NEA playwright. She sits on the Dramatist Guild Legal Defense Fund board and is on faculty at the University of Illinois at Chicago.