Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Author

Branden Jacobs-Jenkins is a writer and theatre artist living in Brooklyn, NY. His plays include Everybody, Neighbors, Appropriate, An Octoroon, and Gloria, the latter of which was a finalist for the 2015 Pulitzer Prize. He is a recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, a Fulbright Fellowship, an award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Steinberg Playwriting Award, and the Tennessee Williams Award. He is a writer-in-residence at the Signature Theatre, a former Lila Acheson Wallace Playwriting Fellow at the Juilliard School, and holds an MA in Performance Studies from NYU.