Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, the DC-born playwright whose Appropriate and An Octoroon astonished audiences at Woolly Mammoth, has won a MacArthur Fellows Award — also know as a “genius grant” — of $625,000. Both works won Obie Awards for Best New American Plays for Jacobs-Jenkins, 31. His play Gloria was a finalist for the 2016 Pulitzer Prize. […] The post DC playwright wins MacArthur Genius …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:14AM on September 23, 2016