Finalist for 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Drama Winner of 2012 New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Play Winner of 2012 Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Play A deeply humorous, unflinching portrait of grief and loss, Sons of the Prophet depicts a Lebanese-American family in rural Pennsylvania beset by an absurd string of tragedies. At the play center is Joseph Douaihy, a once-promising world-class runner now sidelined by injury.