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Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

I actually don’t read the press. All the writers I admire were significantly reclusive, and I’m still trying to figure out how they got to a place where they didn’t have to talk to press.

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Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

The first theater subscription I ever bought was the August Wilson season at Signature. I remember thinking a whole season to one playwright was a great way for a master to do a victory lap.

– Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

I feel like I’m put in a position where I have to engage with what people bring to my work, which is an expectation for me to talk about race because it’s not normal for a black writer to be writing in the theatre.

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Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

I identify as queer. I just don’t know what any of these labels mean.

– Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

I seem to belong to a boom moment of playwrights, and I’m always curious about how we all got here and what comes next.

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Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

Family dramas are tough, as a playwright. Most stories are about characters going on a trip or a new character coming to town, because that’s how you learn information about them. But with family, they all know each other already. There’s years of history in every interaction.

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Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

A Streetcar Named Desire’ is the play I’ve probably read the most times in my life, and I love the weirdness of all the scene outs but especially the end of the second scene, when Williams brings a tamale vendor on stage to simply say, ‘Red hot!’

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Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

You get better at the thing you do by having to explain it to someone else. That, I think, totally makes my work stronger.

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Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

All of my work is sort of fed by a question, a need to understand the world and why the world is what it is.

– Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

My dream was always to have an experience where an audience member would turn to another audience member, a stranger, and be like, ‘What did we just go through?’ And, like, kind of begin to talk.

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Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

I spent summers with my mother’s parents in Arkansas, where religion felt very present. My grandmother was Baptist, and my grandfather was Methodist. Double Southern whammy.

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Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

Somehow, whenever we think about race or blackness in relationship to art, we always come in kind of nervous. We always think someone’s about to be punished or accused of something.

– Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

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