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Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
Playwright | Class of 2016
Using a range of theatrical genres in subversive, often unsettling works that engage frankly with the ways in which race, class, and history are negotiated in both private and public.


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Playwright
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New York, New York
Age
31 at time of award
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Theatrical Arts
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Signature Theatre: Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
Hunter College: Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
Published September 22, 2016
ABOUT BRANDEN'S WORK
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins is a playwright drawing from a range of contemporary and historical theatrical genres to engage frankly with complicated issues around identity, family, class, and race. Many of Jacobs-Jenkins’s plays use a historical lens to satirize and comment on modern culture, particularly the ways in which race and class are negotiated in both private and public settings. Although the provocation of his audience is purposeful, Jacobs-Jenkins’s creation of unsettling, shocking, often confrontational moments is not gratuitous; these elements are of a piece with the world he has established on stage and in the service of the story he is telling.

Appropriate (2012) has all of the trappings of an “American family drama,” but the familiar plot of a family brought together after a father’s death is disrupted by the discovery of a collection of lynching photographs among the deceased’s belongings. In the characters’ varied responses, past and present racial relations become a palpable presence on stage, despite an entirely white cast. Neighbors (2010) includes performances reminiscent of historical minstrel acts performed by actors in blackface. These interludes lay bare the fraught expectations faced by black artists, a theme Jacobs-Jenkins returns to in An Octoroon (2014) with the meta-theatrical character of BJJ. BJJ is a playwright alter ego who guides the action of this imaginative recreation of Dion Boucicault’s nineteenth-century play of a similar name. Anachronistic acting styles, self-conscious references to the intrinsic artifice of theater, and jolting juxtapositions of the past and present demonstrate the enduring legacies of slavery and the ways in which people can live in close proximity and yet worlds apart.

With Gloria (2015), Jacobs-Jenkins returns to the naturalistic play, using the biting satire of the comic drama to explore the stratified, competitive world of the modern workplace and its sometimes fatal consequences. In these and other works, Jacobs-Jenkins’s subversive, fearless, and risky approach is challenging audiences to reconsider the integrated spaces we share and to reflect on opportunities for sympathetic connection.

BIOGRAPHY
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins received a B.A. (2006) from Princeton University and an M.A. (2007) from New York University, and he is a graduate (2014) of the Lila Acheson Wallace American Playwrights Program at Juilliard. His plays have been performed at such venues as Lincoln Center Theatre/LCT3, Soho Rep, the Public Theatre, Yale Repertory Theatre, Actors Theater of Louisville, and Center Theatre Group, among many others. Jacobs-Jenkins is currently a Residency Five playwright at Signature Theatre and master-artist-in-residence in the Playwriting MFA program of Hunter College, City University of New York.



布兰登-雅各布斯-詹金斯
编剧 | 2016级
在颠覆性的、经常令人不安的作品中使用一系列戏剧流派，坦率地参与种族、阶级和历史在私人和公共场合的谈判方式。


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纽约，纽约
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获奖时为31岁
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亨特学院。布兰登-雅各布斯-詹金斯
发表于2016年9月22日
关于布兰登的作品
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins是一位剧作家，他从一系列当代和历史戏剧流派中汲取灵感，坦率地参与到围绕身份、家庭、阶级和种族的复杂问题中。Jacobs-Jenkins的许多剧作使用历史镜头来讽刺和评论现代文化，特别是种族和阶级在私人和公共场合的谈判方式。尽管对观众的挑衅是有目的的，但Jacobs-Jenkins创造的令人不安的、令人震惊的、经常是对抗性的时刻并不是无缘无故的；这些元素与他在舞台上建立的世界是一体的，并为他所讲的故事服务。

适当》（2012年）具有 "美国家庭剧 "的所有特征，但父亲去世后一家人聚在一起的熟悉情节被在死者的遗物中发现的一系列私刑照片打乱。在人物的不同反应中，过去和现在的种族关系成为舞台上可触及的存在，尽管演员都是白人。邻居》（2010年）包括让人联想到历史上由黑脸演员表演的吟唱剧的表演。这些插曲暴露了黑人艺术家所面临的令人不安的期望，雅各布斯-詹金斯在《八爪鱼》（2014年）中以BJJ的元戏剧角色回到了这个主题。BJJ是一个剧作家的另一个自我，他引导着这个对Dion Boucicault的19世纪类似名字的戏剧的想象性再现。不合时宜的表演风格、对戏剧内在假象的自觉引用，以及过去和现在的颠簸并置，展示了奴隶制的持久遗留问题，以及人们可以生活在近在咫尺却又天各一方的方式。

在《格洛丽亚》（2015年）中，雅各布斯-詹金斯回到了自然主义戏剧，用滑稽剧的尖锐讽刺来探讨现代工作场所的分层、竞争世界及其有时的致命后果。在这些和其他作品中，雅各布斯-詹金斯的颠覆性、无畏和冒险的方法正在挑战观众，重新考虑我们共享的综合空间，并反思同情性联系的机会。

个人简历
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins在普林斯顿大学获得学士学位（2006年），在纽约大学获得硕士学位（2007年），他是茱莉亚学院Lila Acheson Wallace美国剧作家项目的毕业生（2014年）。他的剧本曾在林肯中心剧院/LCT3、Soho Rep、公共剧院、耶鲁剧团、路易斯维尔演员剧院和中心剧院集团等场所演出。Jacobs-Jenkins目前是Signature剧院的第五期驻场剧作家，也是纽约市立大学亨特学院剧本创作硕士项目的驻场艺术家。