1. Branden Jacobs-Jenkins's additional plays include An Octoroon and The Comeuppance.
14 Facts About Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
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Branden Jacobs-Jenkins's father, Benjamin Jenkins, is a retired dentist, and his mother, Patricia Jacobs, is a business consultant.
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Branden Jacobs-Jenkins 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.
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Branden Jacobs-Jenkins has taught playwriting at the Tisch School, Princeton, and Yale.
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Branden Jacobs-Jenkins graduated from the Lila Acheson Wallace Playwrights Program at The Juilliard School.
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Branden Jacobs-Jenkins received the 2014 Obie Award for Best New American Play for his plays Appropriate and An Octoroon.
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Branden Jacobs-Jenkins wrote War while on a Fulbright Fellowship in Germany.
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Branden Jacobs-Jenkins's work has been seen at The Public Theater, Signature Theater, PS122, Soho Rep, Yale Repertory Theatre, Actors Theater of Louisville, The Matrix Theatre in Los Angeles, Mixed Blood Theatre in Minneapolis, the Wilma Theater, CompanyOne and SpeakEasy Stage in Boston, Theater Bielefeld in Bielefeld, Germany, the National Theatre in London, and the HighTide Festival in the UK.
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Branden Jacobs-Jenkins currently serves on the board of Soho Rep in New York City.
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Branden Jacobs-Jenkins received the Helen Merrill Award in Playwrighting, Emerging Playwright category, in 2011.
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Branden Jacobs-Jenkins received the Paula Vogel Award from the Vineyard Theatre in 2011.
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Branden Jacobs-Jenkins was given the Steinberg Playwrights Award in 2015.
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Branden Jacobs-Jenkins was named a MacArthur Fellow, Class of 2016.
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In 2018, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his play Everybody.