Jacobs-Jenkins, Branden

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Name (Latin)
Jacobs-Jenkins, Branden
Other forms of name
Jenkins, Branden Jacobs-
Date of birth
1984-12-29
Place of birth
Washington (D.C.)
Field of activity
Drama
Playwriting
Occupation
Dramatists College teachers Authors Editors
Associated Language
eng
Gender
male
MARC
MARC
Other Identifiers
VIAF: 256107572
Wikidata: Q19560839
Library of congress: no2012114724
OCoLC: oca09286421
DLC: no2012114724
Sources of Information
  • Octoroon, 2015:title page (Branden Jacobs-Jenkins)
  • American next wave, 2012:title page (Branden Jacobs-Jenkins)
  • Wikipedia, 11 May 2019(Branden Jacobs-Jenkins is an American playwright; born in Washington, DC; 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; has taught playwriting at the Tisch School and also at Princeton; graduated from the Lila Acheson Wallace Playwrites Program at the Julliard School; worked at the New Yorker Magazine where he edited and wrote reviews)
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Wikipedia description:

Branden Jacobs-Jenkins is an American playwright. His plays Gloria and Everybody were finalists for the 2016 and 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. His play Appropriate made his Broadway debut as a playwright in 2023 and earned him his first Tony Award. His additional plays include An Octoroon and The Comeuppance. He was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2016.

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