J.T. Rogers

J. T. Rogers’s plays include Blood and Gifts (National Theatre, London; Lincoln Center Theater), The Overwhelming (National Theatre, followed by UK tour with Out of Joint; Roundabout Theatre); Madagascar (Theatre 503, London; Melbourne Theatre Company) and White People (Off-Broadway with Starry Night Productions). As one of the original playwrights for the Tricycle Theatre of London’s Great Game: Afghanistan, he was nominated for 2009 Olivier Award. His works have also been staged throughout the United States and in Germany, Canada, and Israel. His plays are published by Faber and Faber and Dramatists Play Service. Recent awards include NEA/TCG and NYFA fellowships, the Pinter Review Prize for Drama, the American Theatre Critics Association’s Osborne New Play Award, and the William Inge Center for the Arts’ New Voices Award. Rogers’s essays have appeared in American Theatre magazine and in London’s Independent and The New Statesman. He is a member of New Dramatists and the Dramatist Guild and holds an honorary doctorate from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts.

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