Branden Jacobs-Jenkins is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American playwright.
His plays include: Purpose (Steppenwolf, Chicago, 2024; Broadway, 2025; winner of the 2025 Tony Award for Best Play and the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for Drama); The Comeuppance (Signature Theatre, Off-Broadway, 2023; Almeida Theatre, London, 2024); Gloria (Off-Broadway, 2015; Hampstead Theatre, 2017; a finalist for the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Drama); Appropriate (Off-Broadway, 2014; Donmar Warehouse, 2019; winner of the 2014 Obie Award for Best New American Play, jointly with his play An Octoroon); An Octoroon (New York, 2014; Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond, 2017; National Theatre, London, 2018); Everybody (Signature Theatre); War (LCT3/Lincoln Center Theater) and Neighbors (The Public Theater).
A Residency Five playwright at Signature Theatre, his recent honors include the MacArthur Fellowship, the Windham-Campbell Prize for Drama, the Benjamin Danks Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the PEN/Laura Pels International Foundation Theatre Award, the Steinberg Playwriting Award, and the Tennessee Williams Award.
