Two Yalie Theater Pulitzers

Love the blending of the dramatic and musical arts.
The 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Drama went to a writer previously best known for writing the book to a musical, and who studied Music Composition as an undergraduate before shifting to playwriting as her graduate study.
The 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Music went to an opera.
Both winners have Yale connections.
Quiara Alegria Hudes won the Drama prize for Water by the Spoonful, which was staged at Hartford Stage last fall. She got her B.A. in Music Composition from Yale, then studied playwriting at Brown, and now teaches in the Theater department at Wesleyan University in Middletown. Wesleyan was the birthplace of In the Heights, which Hudes helped restructure for its hit Off Broadway and Broadway productions.
The Pulitzer for Music went to Kevin Puts, a 1996 graduate of the Yale School of Music, for his opera score Silent Night. The multilingual libretto is by Mark Campbell, based on the 2005 English-made movie Joyeux Noel, about an impromptu ceasefire on a World War 1 battlefield.