Manhattan Theatre Club has named Pulitzer Prize winner Eboni Booth (Primary Trust) as the 2024-2025 recipient of the annual Judith Champion Playwriting Fellowship.

Supported by late philanthropist and former MTC Patron Judith Champion, the fellowship provides a playwright with artistic and financial resources to write and develop a new commissioned play in residence at MTC. The recipient is also provided with a living allowance, access to office and rehearsal space, a ticket stipend, and a developmental workshop of at least one play during the fellowship year.

“We are thrilled that Eboni Booth, who has been a member of the MTC family since 2017, is joining us in this new and exciting capacity," MTC Artistic Director Lynne Meadow said in a statement. "We are also looking forward to continuing to honor Judith Champion’s legacy as an ardent supporter of artists and their work with our third Champion Playwriting Fellow. Judi believed wholeheartedly in empowering the most talented writers of our time to continue creating new and exciting work for the stage, and we remain extremely grateful for her contributions to MTC and to the theatrical community at large. I am sure that Judi would be proud of the impact Zora [Howard], Sanaz [Toossi], and now Eboni are making and will continue to make on the American Theatre.”

“We are overjoyed to have the remarkable Eboni Booth in residence with us this season through the Judith Champion Playwriting Fellowship,” added MTC Director of Play Development Scott Kaplan. “We have long been admirers of Eboni’s extraordinary theatrical gifts, and we couldn’t be happier at the prospect of embarking on a year of close collaboration with this wonderful artist.”

Booth's play Primary Trust was produced at MTC in 2023 and earned the Pulitzer Prize for Drama as well as an Outer Critics Circle Award. She also penned Paris, which was staged by Atlantic Theater Company in 2020, and has written for Hulu's We Were the Lucky Ones and HBO Max's Julia.