GMTWP Alum Michael R. Jackson (Cycle 14)
GMTWP Alum Michael R. Jackson (Cycle 14) has received several 2020 Drama Desk Award nominations for the recent production of his new musical A STRANGE LOOP, which was presented in association with Page 73 last year at Playwrights Horizons.
The show was nominated in the following categories:
OUTSTANDING MUSICAL
OUTSTANDING LEADING ACTOR IN A MUSICAL
OUTSTANDING DIRECTOR OF A MUSICAL
OUTSTANDING MUSIC
OUTSTANDING LYRIC
OUTSTANDING BOOK OF A MUSICAL
Usher is a black, queer writer, working a day job he hates while writing his original musical: a piece about a black, queer writer, working a day job he hates while writing his original musical. Michael R. Jackson’s blistering, momentous new musical follows a young artist at war with a host of demons — not least of which, the punishing thoughts in his own head — in an attempt to capture and understand his own strange loop.