Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

Personal Information

Branden Jacobs-Jenkins is a Brooklyn-based playwright whose credits include War (Yale Rep; forthcoming at Lincoln Center/LCT3), Gloria (Vineyard Theatre), Appropriate (Obie Award; Signature Theatre), An Octoroon (Obie Award; Soho Rep, Theatre for a New Audience) and Neighbors (The Public Theater). He is a Residency Five playwright at Signature Theatre and is under commissions from LCT3/Lincoln Center Theater, MTC/Sloan, and the Steppenwolf Theatre Company. His recent honors include the Windham-Campbell Prize for Drama, the PEN/Laura Pels International Foundation Theatre Award, the Benjamin H. Danks Award, the Steinberg Playwriting Award, and the inaugural Tennessee Williams award. In addition to holding an MA in Performance Studies from NYU, Branden is also a graduate of the LIla Acheson Wallace American Playwrights Program at the Juilliard School. He currently teaches in the Hunter College Playwriting MFA Program, where is a Master-Artist-in-Residence.

Credits

Author

	Production	Theatre	Opened	Credit
1	The Comeuppance	Pershing Square Signature Center/ The Alice Griffin Jewel Box Theatre	06/05/2023	Playwright
2	Everybody	Pershing Square Signature Center/ Irene Diamond Stage	02/21/2017	Playwright
3	War	Claire Tow Theater	06/06/2016	Playwright
4	Gloria	Vineyard Theatre	06/15/2015	Playwright
5	Appropriate	Pershing Square Signature Center/ The Alice Griffin Jewel Box Theatre	03/16/2014	Playwright

Awards

		Award	Production	Function
1	NOMINATED	2024 Lucille Lortel Award, Outstanding Play	The Comeuppance	Playwright
2	NOMINATED	2018 Pulitzer Prize, Drama	Everybody	Playwright
3	NOMINATED	2016 Lucille Lortel Award, Outstanding Play	Gloria	Playwright
4	NOMINATED	2016 Pulitzer Prize, Drama	Gloria	Playwright
5	WON	2014 Obie Award, Best New American Play	Appropriate	Playwright