Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

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American playwright

United States WritersBorn 1984 · age 41

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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.

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2025Tony Award for Best Play

2025Time 100

2020Guggenheim Fellowship

2016Windham-Campbell Literature Prizes

2016MacArthur Fellows Program

2011Paula Vogel Playwriting Award

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Catherine CombsAlso in Gloria (2021)

Tarell Alvin McCraneyAlso won Paula Vogel Playwriting Award

Jim CraceAlso won Windham-Campbell Literature Prizes

Frances GoodrichAlso won Tony Award for Best Play

Aminatta FornaAlso won Windham-Campbell Literature Prizes David EdgarAlso won Tony Award for Best Play

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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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