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; he won a second in 2025 for Purpose. His additional plays include An Octoroon and The Comeuppance. He was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2016.
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Theatre, Drama, Drama (dramatic works by one author), Play script, American literature, American drama, Editing, Families, Family secrets, Interpersonal relations, Journalism, Life, Meaning (philosophy), Music, history and criticism, Plantation life, Plantations, Racially mixed people, Slavery, Slaves, Théâtre américain, play scriptID Numbers
- OLID: OL7605790A
- Amazon ID: B01MQZRVEP
- Integrated Authority File (GND): 1185600671
- IMDb: nm7637702
- Library of Congress Names: no2012114724
- LibraryThing: jacobsjenkinsbranden
- VIAF: 256107572
- Wikidata: Q19560839
- Inventaire.io: wd:Q19560839
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- Branden Jacobs-jenkins
- Branden Jacobs Jenkins
- Jacobs-Jenkins, Branden
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