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Feb 2, 2010 · For Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, the author of “Neighbors,” the play amounts to an investigation of “a 300-year history of black people in the theater,” and minstrelsy was its undeniable origin.
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins is an American playwright. His plays Gloria and Everybody were finalists for the 2016 and 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. His play Appropriate made his Broadway debut as a playwright in 2023. His additional plays include An Octoroon and The Comeuppance. He was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2016.
Feb 26, 2017 · In his first full-length play, “Neighbors” (2010), Jacobs-Jenkins set out to address “a three-hundred-year history of black people in the theatre.” (He has never lacked...
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May 28, 2015 · Today, the playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins talks about his first play, Neighbors, which debuted at the Public Theater in 2010. He wrote it when he was twenty-three.
Jan 8, 2024 · Jacobs-Jenkins’s début play, “Neighbors,” premièred at the Public Theatre in 2010. A continuation of his minstrelsy studies, it’s a tale of warring families set in the suburbs.
This wildly theatrical, explosive play on race marks the major debut of Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, member of NYC’s Public Theatre’s Emerging Writers Group. NEIGHBORS includes explicit language and sexual content and is inappropriate for children.
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Mar 9, 2010 · March 9, 2010. In “Neighbors,” a simultaneously overheated and undercooked new play that’s part of the Public Theater’s Lab program, the young playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins tries to trace...
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