MA Alum Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Wins the Windham-Campbell Prize for Drama

Tuesday, Mar 1, 2016

The Windham-Campbell Prizes on Tuesday announced its annual list of nine winners. Each of the recipients receives $150,000 for accomplishments in the worlds of literature and theater.

MA alum Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s play “An Octoroon” (2014) won the award for Drama. The play is a riff on a 19th-century play about illicit interracial love.

Read more in The New York Times.