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Following six Tony nominations and two wins, the Pulitzer Prize-winning family drama “Purpose is losing its on-stage ...
Playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins discusses his Tony Award-winning show “Purpose.” Playwright Branden Jacob-Jenkins made history at this year's Tony Awards as the first Black playwright since ...
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins is stepping into a new phase in his career, winning a Pulitzer Prize and maybe a second Tony while writing the Prince musical “Purple Rain.” ...
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins has won several prestigious awards, including Outstanding Play (Drama Desk Awards) for Purpose, Outstanding Play (The Lortels) for The Comeuppance, ...
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s Tony-nominated play “Purpose,” set in the Chicago home of a family of Black upper-class civil rights leaders, seems, at first, to be inspired by the political drama ...
BRANDEN JACOBS-JENKINS: And they’re both Chicago families. LW: Exactly! What I also love about “Purpose” is the conversations that are happening between these different generations that ...
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Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, a playwright and a professor in the practice of theater and performance studies in Yale’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), has been awarded a Pulitzer Prize for his play ...
Dominik Bindl/Getty Images. Just weeks after the premiere of his new Broadway play Purpose, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins has more to celebrate after being named one of Time’s 100 Most Influential ...
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ play Purpose won the Pulitzer Prize for drama Monday.. The play, which follows a powerful family in Black American politics recovering from scandal, is currently running ...