Branden Jacobs-Jenkins's plays include Everybody (Pulitzer Prize finalist), War, Gloria (Pulitzer Prize finalist), Appropriate (Obie Award), An Octoroon (Obie Award) and Neighbors. He is a Premiere Resident playwright at Signature Theatre and under commission from LCT3/Lincoln Center Theater, the Manhattan Theatre Club/Sloan Initiative Grant, and the Steppenwolf Theatre Company. His recent honors include the Charles Wintour Award for Promising Playwright from the London Evening Standard, a London Critics Circle Award for Most Promising Playwright, a MacArthur Fellowship, the Windham-Campbell Prize for Drama, the Benjamin H. Danks Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the PEN/Laura Pels International Foundation Theater Award, the Steinberg Playwright Award, and the inaugural Tennessee Williams Award. He sits on the board of Soho Rep. and is Professor in the Practice of Theater and Performance Studies at Yale University.