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1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Branden_Jacobs-JenkinsBranden Jacobs-Jenkins - Wikipedia

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   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.

   • Occupation: Playwright
   • Notable awards: Obie Award, Steinberg Playwright Award

   • Born: December 29, 1984 (age 38), Washington, DC, U.S.

2. www.newyorker.com › branden-jacobs-jenkins-profileBranden Jacobs-Jenkins Has a Few More Changes | The New Yorker

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   Jan 8, 2024 · Branden Jacobs-Jenkins has been celebrated for his masterly appropriation of theatrical conventions—and for his eagerness to explode them. By Julian Lucas. January 8, 2024....

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4. www.newyorker.com › magazine › 2024/01/01Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, on Broadway at Last | The New Yorker

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   Dec 20, 2023 · The Theatre. Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, on Broadway at Last. Starring a Peak TV supercast, the playwright’s “Appropriate” investigates a dysfunctional Southern family’s buried secrets. By Helen...

5. www.nytimes.com › 2023/12/12 › theaterBranden Jacobs-Jenkins Revisits His ‘Illusion of Suffering ...

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   Dec 12, 2023 · Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Revisits His ‘Illusion of Suffering’ on Broadway - The New York Times. The “Appropriate” playwright has teamed up with the actors Sarah Paulson and Corey Stoll and the...

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   Who is Branden Jacobs-Jenkins?

   • Branden Jacobs-Jenkins is an American playwright. He won the 2014 Obie Award for Best New American Play for his plays Appropriate and An Octoroon. His plays Gloria and Everybody were finalists for the 2016 and 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, respectively. He was named a MacArthur Fellow for 2016. Jacobs-Jenkins was born in Washington, DC.

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   Who is Jacobs-Jenkins?

   • JACOBS-JENKINS: Well, I mean, I’m someone who has a lot of opinions on the history of slavery as depicted in Hollywood, television and film. And this goes back to my academic life and all these things because I think there’s a real ethics to storytelling.

   ‘Kindred’: Showrunner Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Talks About ... - Deadline

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   Does Jacobs-Jenkins cringe at his past?

   • Jacobs-Jenkins’s keen ear for the anxieties of our age is equally attuned to those of ages gone by; in adaptations like “An Octoroon” and “ Everybody ” (2017), based on a medieval morality play, the shock of self-consciousness summons the ghosts of theatre’s history. “I cringe at my past,” he joked in one of our conversations.

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   Are Jacobs-Jenkins a twin?

   • Jacobs-Jenkins worked on both plays while he was living in Germany, where he explored a clinical perspective on the United States, and both had New York premières the same year. The plays are twins, if fraternal: they share an interest, for instance, in lynching photographs.

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7. www.newyorker.com › magazine › 2023/06/19The Dance of Death in “The Comeuppance” - The New Yorker

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   Jun 12, 2023 · The Dance of Death in “The Comeuppance” In Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s new play, at Signature Theatre, friends gathering for their twenty-year high-school reunion are each inhabited by the...

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8. theaterstudies.yale.edu › branden-jacobs-jenkinsBranden Jacobs-Jenkins | Theater and Performance Studies

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   branden.jacobs-jenkins@yale.edu. Branden Jacobs-Jenkins joins Yale as a Professor in the Practice of Theater and Performance Studies. Jacobs-Jenkins is a playwright whose plays include Girls (Yale Rep), Everybody (Signature Theatre; Pulitzer Prize finalist), War (world premiere, Yale Rep; LCT3), Gloria (Vineyard Theatre; Pulitzer Prize finalist ...

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10. deadline.com › 2022 › 12‘Kindred': Showrunner Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Talks About ...

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    Dec 15, 2022 · ‘Kindred’ Showrunner Branden Jacobs-Jenkins On The Process Of Adapting Octavia E. Butler For The Modern Age, Casting Newcomer Mallori Johnson, And Trying Not To “Aestheticize The Violence” Of...