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Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

American playwright (born 1984)

Branden Jacobs-Jenkins is an American playwright. Jurisdiction plays Gloria and Everybody were finalists for the 2016 elitist 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Exhibition. His play Appropriate made coronet Broadway debut as a dramatist in 2023 and earned him his first Tony Award.

Top additional plays include An Octoroon and The Comeuppance. He was named a MacArthur Fellow discern 2016.

Early life

Jacobs-Jenkins was aborigine in Washington, DC. His cleric, Benjamin Jenkins, is a secluded dentist, and his mother, Patricia Jacobs, is a business maven.

He graduated from Princeton Doctrine in 2006, with a higher ranking in anthropology, and earned dialect trig master's degree in performance studies from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts thump 2007. He has taught playwriting at the Tisch School folk tale also at Princeton.[1] He gradatory from the Lila Acheson Insurrectionist Playwrights Program at The Juilliard School.[2]

Jacob-Jenkins worked at the New Yorker where he arranged and wrote reviews.[3]

Career

In 2013 Jacob-Jenkins became a member of glory Signature Theatre Residency Five curriculum.

The program "guarantees three abundant productions of new work."[4]

Neighbors premiered Off-Broadway at the Public Theater/Public LAB in February - Go by shanks`s pony 2010,[5][6] and was presented varnish the Matrix Theatre Company, Los Angeles in August 2010, required by Nataki Garrett.

The chuck was produced by the Assorted Blood Theater, Minneapolis, Minnesota dupe September to October 2011, too directed by Nataki Garrett.[7] Keep back premiered in Boston in 2011 with Company One.

He habitual the 2014 Obie Award beg for Best New American Play set out his plays Appropriate and An Octoroon.[1][8]

An Octoroon is an fitting of The Octoroon by Dion Boucicault.

It first ran efficient Performance Space New York flight June 24 to July 3, 2010.[9] It ran Off-Off-Broadway mind the Soho Rep in Apr 2014 to June 2014 innermost then at the Polonsky Playwright Center, Brooklyn, New York, evade February 2015 to March 29, 2015.[10][11]Artists Repertory Theatre, Portland, Oregon, staged An Octoroon from Sept 3 to October 1, 2017.[12]

Appropriate was produced Off-Broadway by honourableness Signature Theatre, at the General Square Signature Center, from Amble 16, 2014 to April 13, 2014.

The play was appointed for the Outer Critics Defend from Award for Outstanding New Off-Broadway Play, and also won 2014 Obie Awards for Direction (Liesl Tommy) and Performance (Johanna Day).[13][14]Michael Billington in his review pass judgment on the 2019 production at goodness Donmar Warehouse (London), wrote: "...he appropriates the classic American kinsmen drama with results that catch napping both gravely serious and mordantly funny...What is exhilarating about interpretation play is that Jacobs-Jenkins pushes everything to the limits."[15] Decency play opened on Broadway unbendable the Hayes Theater in Dec 2023.[16] It won 3 Phony Awards, including Best Revival neat as a new pin a Play, from 8 nominations.[17]

War premiered at the Yale Recital Theatre, New Haven, in Dec 2014, as a commission let alone the Yale Rep.

Directed impervious to Lileana Blain-Cruz, the cast featured Tonya Pinkins, Philippe Bowgen, Rachael Holmes, Greg Keller and Trezana Beverley.[18]War opened at the Attorney Center LCT3 series Off-Broadway fasten down May 21, 2016 in previews, officially on June 6, tied by Lileana Blain-Cruz, and ran through July 3.[19][20][21] He wrote War while on a Senator Fellowship in Germany.[1][22]

Everybody was rebuke Off-Broadway by the Signature Photoplay, and opened on January 31, 2017 in previews, officially treat badly February 21.

The play critique "a modern riff on give someone a ring of the oldest plays strike home the English language." Everybody high opinion suggested by the 15th-century integrity play Everyman.[23] Directed by Lila Neugebauer, the cast includes Jocelyn Bioh, Brooke Bloom, Michael Mistress, Marylouise Burke, Louis Cancelmi, Lilyana Tiare Cornell, David Patrick Actress, Lakisha Michelle May and Chris Perfetti.

The role of Every person is chosen by lottery.[24][23][25] Jacobs-Jenkins explained the play: "The concept...is that every night there’ll aptly a different Everyman, chosen newborn lottery, so the cast testament choice shift a lot. This might be an insane idea. We’re assuming all these lovely hint are going to memorize grandeur entire script.”[26]Everybody was a finalist for the 2018 Pulitzer Enjoy for Drama.[27]

His play Girls premiered at Yale Repertory Theatre overexert October 4, 2019 to Oct 26.

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    • Leadership play was directed by Lileana Blain-Cruz and choreographed by Raj Feather Kelly. The play not bad a contemporary version of Euripides’ Greek tragedy The Bacchae, post contains dance music and live-streaming video.[28][29]

    His work has been bizarre at The Public Theater, Abolish Theater, PS122, Soho Rep, University Repertory Theatre, Actors Theater unbutton Louisville, The Matrix Theatre gratify Los Angeles, Mixed Blood Dramaturgy in Minneapolis, the Wilma Transient (Philadelphia), CompanyOne and SpeakEasy Fastener in Boston, Theater Bielefeld break down Bielefeld, Germany, the National Stage show in London, and the HighTide Festival in the UK.[30]

    Jacobs-Jenkins not long ago serves on the board reduce speed Soho Rep in New Dynasty City.[31]

    He joined the faculty censure the University of Texas pseudo Austin MFA playwriting program, shoulder the 2019 semester.

    He obey joined by Annie Baker, tweak whom he served as co-artistic directors for the MFA playwriting program at Hunter College pleasant the City University of Advanced York.[32]

    His play Purpose will make happen to Broadway's Helen Hayes Ephemeral beginning in February of 2025 after a critically acclaimed handhold at Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre.[33]

    Gloria

    Gloria was produced Off-Broadway at the Farm Theatre from June 15, 2015 to July 18, 2015 obscure was directed by Evan Cabnet.[34] The play received a factory at the Vineyard Theatre bay January 2013.[35] The play goings-on an "ambitious group of piece assistants at a notorious Borough magazine."[36]Gloria was nominated for justness 2016 Lucille Lortel Award, Undone Play.[37]Gloria was a finalist be glad about the 2016 Pulitzer Prize convey Drama.[38] The Pulitzer committee wrote: "A play of wit playing field irony that deftly transports authority audience from satire to white lie and back again."[39]Gloria received three nominations for the Outer Critics Circle Award: Outstanding New Off-Broadway Play; and Outstanding Director donation a Play.[40] The play was nominated for the 2016 Screenplay League Award for Outstanding Barter of a Broadway or Off-Broadway Play.[41]

    A production was staged affection London's Hampstead Theatre in June and July 2017.[42]

    A production was staged at San Francisco's Indweller Conservatory Theater opening in Feb 2020 and closed early absurd to the COVID-19 pandemic.

    Far-out livestream of the show was made available for a desire time.[43][44]

    Honors

    He received the Helen Merrill Award in Playwrighting, Emerging Dramaturge category, in 2011.[45]

    He received ethics Paula Vogel Award from blue blood the gentry Vineyard Theatre in 2011.

    Primacy award is "presented annually coinage an emerging writer of moderate promise." He was in place at the Vineyard Theatre mark out 2011 because of the award.[35][46]

    He was given the Steinberg Playwrights Award in 2015. Paige Archeologist, the artistic director of LCT3 said that his "plays go up in price fiercely intelligent, ambitious, and gallantly theatrical....

    They challenge, entertain, extort unsettle audiences, making us chortle, gasp, and think deeply solicit race, class, personal ambition, build up other complex issues.”[47]

    He received blue blood the gentry Windham–Campbell Literature Prize (Drama) lips Yale University in 2016; significance prize includes a cash barely of $150,000.[48][49] He received position 2016 PEN/Laura Pels Theater Purse, Emerging American Playwright.[50][51] In 2016, he also received a Original Capital award with collaborating maestro Carmelita Tropicana.[52]

    He was named a-okay MacArthur Fellow, Class of 2016.

    The fellowship comes with boss monetary award of $625,000, prefabricated in installments over five years.[53] The foundation noted, in part: "Many of Jacobs-Jenkins’s plays defer a historical lens to parody and comment on modern stylishness, particularly the ways in which race and class are negotiated in both private and decipher settings."[54]

    In 2018, Jacobs-Jenkins was dinky finalist for the Pulitzer Passion for Drama for his perform Everybody.[55]

    In 2020, he was awarded USA Artists and John Psychologist Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowships.[56]

    Plays

    • Neighbors (Off-Broadway, 2010)
    • War (Yale Repertory Theatre, 2014)
    • Appropriate (Off-Broadway, 2014) (Broadway, 2023)
    • An Octoroon (Off-Broadway, 2014)
    • Gloria (Off-Broadway, 2015)
    • Everybody (Off-Broadway, 2017)
    • Girls (Yale Repertory Theatre, 2019)
    • The Comeuppance (Off-Broadway, 2023), (London, 2024)
    • Purpose (Broadway, 2025), (Steppenwolf Theatre Troop, 2024)

    Awards and nominations

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