J. T. Rogers

J. T. Rogers
Born	United States
Nationality	American
Alma mater	University of North Carolina School of the Arts
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Genre	Drama
Notable work(s)	Blood and Gifts, Oslo

J. T. Rogers is an 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.

His 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 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. For the play, Rogers received the Otis Guernsey New Voices Playwriting Award at the 2007 William Inge Theatre Festival in Independence, Kansas. The Overwhelming has since been done throughout the world, selected as a Top 10 Play of the Year by Time Magazine, Time Out New York and the Chicago Tribune, and nominated for Best Play of the Year by London’s South Bank Show and Boston’s Elliot Norton Awards.

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