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Branden Jacobs-Jenkins on Caryl Churchill's FAR AWAY The Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast
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Branden Jacobs-Jenkins (winner of a 2016 Windham-Campbell Prize for Drama) chats with Prize Director Michael Kelleher about British theater legend Caryl Churchill's Far Away, the power of language on the page and stage, and the point of having a playwright at all.
Reading list:
Far Away by Caryl Churchill • Escaped Alone by Caryl Churchill • Top Girls by Caryl Churchill • Prince • Jasmine Lee Jones on Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun • Cristina and Her Double: Essays by Herta Müller
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins is a playwright whose plays include Girls, Everybody (Pulitzer Prize finalist), War, Gloria (Pulitzer Prize finalist), Appropriate (OBIE Award), An Octoroon (OBIE Award), and Neighbors. A Residency Five playwright at Signature Theatre, recent honors include the Charles Wintour Award for Most Promising Playwright from the London Evening Standard, a London Critics’ Circle Award for Most Promising Playwriting, a MacArthur Fellowship, the Windham-Campbell Prize for Drama, the Benjamin H. Danks Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Steinberg Playwriting Award, and the inaugural Tennessee Williams Award. Jacobs-Jenkins has taught at Yale, NYU, Juilliard, Hunter College, and the University of Texas-Austin.
The Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast is a program of The Windham-Campbell Prizes, which are administered by Yale University Library's Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins (winner of a 2016 Windham-Campbell Prize for Drama) chats with Prize Director Michael Kelleher about British theater legend Caryl Churchill's Far Away, the power of language on the page and stage, and the point of having a playwright at all.
Reading list:
Far Away by Caryl Churchill • Escaped Alone by Caryl Churchill • Top Girls by Caryl Churchill • Prince • Jasmine Lee Jones on Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun • Cristina and Her Double: Essays by Herta Müller
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins is a playwright whose plays include Girls, Everybody (Pulitzer Prize finalist), War, Gloria (Pulitzer Prize finalist), Appropriate (OBIE Award), An Octoroon (OBIE Award), and Neighbors. A Residency Five playwright at Signature Theatre, recent honors include the Charles Wintour Award for Most Promising Playwright from the London Evening Standard, a London Critics’ Circle Award for Most Promising Playwriting, a MacArthur Fellowship, the Windham-Campbell Prize for Drama, the Benjamin H. Danks Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Steinberg Playwriting Award, and the inaugural Tennessee Williams Award. Jacobs-Jenkins has taught at Yale, NYU, Juilliard, Hunter College, and the University of Texas-Austin.
The Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast is a program of The Windham-Campbell Prizes, which are administered by Yale University Library's Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
31 min