Comeuppance

A bitingly comic, strikingly timely satire for the stage, which asks if we can ever break free from the people we used to be.

About the author

Branden Jacobs-Jenkins is an American playwright. He won the 2014 Obie Award for Best New American Play, for his plays Appropriate and An Octoroon. His play Gloria was a finalist for the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Other credits include: The Comeuppance (Signature Theatre, Off-Broadway, 2023; Almeida Theatre, London, 2024); Everybody (Signature Theatre); War (LCT3/Lincoln Center Theater) and Neighbors (The Public Theater).

A Residency Five playwright at Signature Theatre, his recent honors include the MacArthur Fellowship, the Windham-Campbell Prize for Drama, the Benjamin Danks Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the PEN/Laura Pels International Foundation Theatre Award, the Steinberg Playwriting Award, and the Tennessee Williams Award. He currently teaches in the Hunter College Playwriting MFA Program.

Product details

• Authors: Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, Jacobs-Jenkins Branden
• Publisher: Hern, Nick Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 25.04.2024
• EAN: 9781839043505
• ISBN: 978-1-83904-350-5
• No. of pages: 88
• Series: NHB Modern Plays
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; DRAMA / American / General, Modern and contemporary plays (c 1900 onwards), Plays, Playscripts