This playwright won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for The Hot Wing King, which takes place during the title festival in Memphis. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this playwright who, in her play The Mountaintop, depicted Room 306 of a motel just prior to the central character's assassination.
ANSWER: Katori Hall
[10e] Hall's play The Mountaintop was inspired by the assassination of this civil rights leader, who wrote that "injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere" in his "Letter from Birmingham Jail."
ANSWER: Martin Luther King Jr. [or MLK Jr.]
[10m] Hall's first play Hoodoo Love, in which Toulou tries to woo her boyfriend with the help of Candylady, was selected by this other playwright for the Cherry Lane Theatre. This author used working-class Reading, Pennsylvania as the setting for her 2017 play Sweat.
ANSWER: Lynn Nottage
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