BRANDEN JACOBSJENKINS THE AUTHOR

Branden Jacobs-Jenkins is a Brooklynbased playwright and producer and twotime Pulitzer Prize finalist. Recent credits include showrunner, executive producer and writer for HULU / FX’s drama series, Kindred, based on Octavia E. Butler’s groundbreaking novel.

Previously, Jacobs-Jenkins was a consulting producer on HBO’s Emmy-winning limited series The Watchmen and Prime Video’s sci-fi western, Outer Range.

Theatre credits include Girls; Everybody; War (Yale Rep; 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).

A Residency Five playwright at Signature Theatre and a 2020 Guggenheim Fellow, his honours include a USA Artists

Fellowship, the Charles Wintour Award, the MacArthur Fellowship, the WindhamCampbell Prize for Drama, 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 serves as Vice President of the Dramatists Guild Council and sits on the boards of Soho Rep, Park Avenue Armory, the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize and the Dramatists Guild Foundation. This autumn, he joins the faculty of Yale University as Professor of Practice.