J.T. Rogers
| J. T. Rogers | |
|---|---|
| Born | United States |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | University of North Carolina School of the Arts |
| Information | |
| Genre | Drama |
| Notable work(s) | Blood and Gifts, Oslo |
J. T. Rogers is a multiple award-winning, internationally recognized American playwright who lives in New York. Rogers has authored more than five plays, including Oslo, Blood and Gifts, The Overwhelming, White People, and Madagascar.
In May 2017, Rogers won the Lucille Lortel Award for Best Play, the Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding New Broadway Play, and the 2017 Drama League Award for Outstanding Production of a Play, all for Oslo.
Oslo has also been nominated for seven 2017 Tony Awards, including Best Play, as well as two 2017 Drama Desk Awards, including Outstanding Play.
Rogers' work has been staged at theaters including London's Royal National Theater, New York's Lincoln Center Theater and Roundabout Theater, and Australia's Melbourne Theatre Company.
Rogers serves on the board of the Dramatists Legal Defense Fund, is a member of New Dramatists, and holds an honorary doctorate from his alma mater, the University of North Carolina School of the Arts.
Rogers has indicated that his playwriting interests include: "stories... framed against great political rupture... [about people] who struggle with, and against... [unfolding] world events — and who are [permanently changed] through that struggle."
Rogers is known for plays that deal with what he called “theater that engages the public realm” in his much-discussed Laura Pels Keynote address to the New York theater community in 2008.
The speech was published as an essay in American Theatre magazine called “Writing Without Borders”. His play The Overwhelming, in which an American family who arrive in Kigali, Rwanda, in early 1994, must confront life-and-death realities of the Rwandan Genocide, had its world premiere at the Cottesloe Theatre, Royal National Theatre, London, in association with Out of Joint, in May 2006. It then toured throughout the UK and was performed on BBC radio. Its American premiere was at the Roundabout Theatre in September 2007.
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