# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/branden-jacobs-jenkins
# Generated: 2026-08-15T05:22:34.381Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/branden-jacobs-jenkins"
name: "Branden Jacobs-Jenkins"
slug: "branden-jacobs-jenkins"
description: "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."
tagline: "American playwright"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Branden_Jacobs_Jenkins.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1984-12-29"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.606994666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm7637702/"
    handle:    "nm7637702"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://www.signaturetheatre.org/About/playwrights-residencies/branden-jacobs-jenkins.aspx"
sources:
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    title: "Branden Jacobs-Jenkins"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "براندن جاكوبس جينكينز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Branden_Jacobs-Jenkins"
    title: "Branden Jacobs-Jenkins"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%91%D7%A8%D7%A0%D7%93%D7%9F_%D7%92'%D7%99%D7%99%D7%A7%D7%95%D7%91%D7%A1-%D7%92'%D7%A0%D7%A7%D7%99%D7%A0%D7%A1"
    title: "ברנדן ג'ייקובס-ג'נקינס"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Branden_Jacobs-Jenkins"
    title: "Branden Jacobs-Jenkins"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
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    title: "Branden Jacobs-Jenkins"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump