Branden Jacobs-Jenkins (Performance Studies MA '07), Photo Credit: Meron Tekie Menghistab - The New York Times/Redux
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins (PS MA '07) has been named one of TIME Magazine's Most 100 Influential People of 2025. Jacobs-Jenkins is a playwright whose plays include Girls (Yale Rep), Everybody (Signature Theatre; Pulitzer Prize finalist), War (world premiere, Yale Rep; LCT3), Gloria (Vineyard Theatre; Pulitzer Prize finalist), Appropriate (Signature Theatre; OBIE Award), An Octoroon (Soho Rep.; OBIE Award), and Neighbors (The Public Theater).
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