At the end of the day, most people just want to be valued. They want to feel they have put their time to something that will seem to have been of value when they die. — Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Copy Share Image
'A Streetcar Named Desire' is the play I've probably read the most times in my life, and I love the weirdness of all the scene outs but especially the end of the second scene, when Williams brings a tamale vendor… — Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Copy Share Image
One of the most incredible and important things about the theater is that we're creating a safe space for all feelings, but especially, ugly… — Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Copy Share Image
At the end of the day, most people just want to be valued. They want to feel they have put their time to something… — Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Copy Share Image
I'm not a really firm believer in theatre that is 'about anything.' I don't think theatre can be about anything other than the people… — Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Copy Share Image
I tried writing a novel, but plays were the thing that kept feeding me, asking me to come back, sit down and be with… — Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Copy Share Image
I feel like I'm put in a position where I have to engage with what people bring to my work, which is an expectation… — Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Copy Share Image
I go through phases of watching a ton of dance/performance, and I am bizarrely well-informed on the subject. — Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Copy Share Image
You get better at the thing you do by having to explain it to someone else. That, I think, totally makes my work stronger. — Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Copy Share Image
Somehow, whenever we think about race or blackness in relationship to art, we always come in kind of nervous. We always think someone's about… — Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Copy Share Image
My dream was always to have an experience where an audience member would turn to another audience member, a stranger, and be like, 'What… — Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Copy Share Image
I seem to belong to a boom moment of playwrights, and I'm always curious about how we all got here and what comes next. — Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Copy Share Image
I actually don't read the press. All the writers I admire were significantly reclusive, and I'm still trying to figure out how they got… — Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Copy Share Image
