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Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

(1984) Playwright

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Branden Jacobs-Jenkins is a playwright.

Quick Facts About Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

Born: December 29, 1984
Profession: Playwright

About Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

[Wikidata] American playwright... | [Wikipedia] Branden Jacobs-Jenkins is an American playwright. His play Purpose won the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, for which his works Gloria and Everybody were finalists in 2016 and 2018, respectively. His play Appropriate marked his Broadway debut as a playwright in 2023 and earned him his first Tony Award

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How do we refresh our language? Why do we still use, like, a 150-year-old classification system to talk about people? It's so…

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Black and white

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I love television, and my love for it has made me curious about writing it. It feels like television's moving toward something…

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Control

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Family dramas are tough, as a playwright. Most stories are about characters going on a trip or a new character coming to…

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Character

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Theater is an old thing. It's thousands of years old. TV isn't. Film isn't. We're doing a really old thing.

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Cinema

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I have this thing called hereditary neuropathy with liability to pressure palsies. It's incredibly rare.

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Hereditary

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'A Streetcar Named Desire' is the play I've probably read the most times in my life, and I love the weirdness of…

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Desire

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