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# Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

Branden Jacobs-Jenkins is a Brooklyn-based playwright and producer who teaches at Yale University. His play Purpose won the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the Tony Award for Best Play. His other plays include Appropriate, An Octoroon, Gloria and Everybody.

**Playwright**

## Books

- [Appropriate / An Octoroon](/book/appropriate-an-octoroon)