Description

• World premiere in 2014 at Soho Rep (New York, Off-Broadway). Production sold out, extended, and was met with rave reviews.

• Shared the 2014 Obie Award for Best New American Play with Appropriate, also written by Jacobs-Jenkins.

• Based on An Octoroon, an 1859 melodrama by Irish writer Dion Boucicault.

• Should be of interest to academic audiences interested in investigating race, ethnicity, discrimination and stereotypes.

• Jacobs-Jenkins, 30 years old, is a rising star among young playwrights.

• Appropriate premiered in 2012 at the Humana Festival of New American Plays (Actors Theatre of Louisville, Kentucky). It has also been produced at Victory Gardens Theatre (Chicago), Woolly Mammoth Theater (Washington DC), and Signature Theatre (New York, Off-Broadway)

• Jacobs-Jenkins is one of the Residency Five playwrights at Signature Theatre. As part of the residency, Signature Theatre will mount three full productions of his work.

• Upcoming productions of new plays include War at Yale Repertory Theater in New Haven, CT (fall 2014) and Gloria; or Ambition at Vineyard Theatre in New York (Off-Broadway, spring 2015).

• Past productions also include Neighbors at The Public Theater (2010)