Branden jacobs jenkins biography
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‘Fulbright is where I was born as a writer’: Tony award-winning playwright playwright reflects on his journey to his Broadway debut
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
Award-winning Playwright
Fulbright Study/Research Award to Germany
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins is an Obie Award-winning playwright, two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, and MacArthur Fellow whose seven plays examine complex issues around identity, family, class, and race, often using history to comment on modern culture.
A Fulbright to Germany in helped launch an accomplished career of writing critically acclaimed plays and teaching theater at the university level.
In December , his play Appropriate opened on Broadway, ten years after its original Off-Broadway debut. Met with acclaim from audiences and critics alike, Appropriate moved to a larger theater for an extended run and was nominated for eight Tony Awards in , including “Best Revival of a Play.”
Called an “allegory of national racial dysfunction” by The New Yorke