Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
| Branden Jacobs-Jenkins | |
|---|---|
| Born |
December 29, 1984 Washington, DC |
| Occupation | Playwright |
| Alma mater |
Princeton NYU The Juilliard School |
| Information | |
| Awards | Obie Award |
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 play Gloria was a finalist for the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. He has been named a MacArthur Fellow for 2016.
Jacobs-Jenkins was born in Washington, DC. His father, Benjamin Jenkins, is a retired dentist and his mother, Patricia Jacobs, is a business consultant. He graduated from Princeton University in 2006, with a major in anthropology, and earned a master's degree in performance studies from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts in 2007. He has taught playwriting at the Tisch School and also at Princeton. He graduated from the Lila Acheson Wallace Playwrights Program at The Juilliard School.
He worked at the New Yorker Magazine where he edited and wrote reviews.
He became a member of the Signature Theatre Residency Five program in 2013. The program "guarantees three full productions of new work."
Neighbors premiered Off-Broadway at the Public Theater/Public LAB in February - March 2010, and was then presented at the Matrix Theatre Company, Los Angeles in August 2010. The play was produced by the Mixed Blood Theater, Minneapolis, Minnesota in September to October 2011, directed by Nataki Garrett. It premiered in Boston in 2011 with Company One.
He received the 2014 Obie Award for Best New American Play for his plays Appropriate and An Octoroon.
An Octoroon is an adaptation of The Octoroon by Dion Boucicault. It ran Off-Off-Broadway at the Soho Rep in April 2014 to June 2014 and then at the Polonsky Shakespeare Center, Brooklyn, New York, from February 2015 to March 29, 2015.
Appropriate was produced Off-Broadway by the Signature Theatre, at the Pershing Square Signature Center, from March 16, 2014 to April 13, 2014. The play was nominated for the Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding New Off-Broadway Play, and also won 2014 Obie Awards for Direction (Liesl Tommy) and Performance (Johanna Day).
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