Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, a playwright and a professor in the practice of theater and performance studies in Yale’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), has been recognized with yet another distinguished honor for his work, this time with a Tony Award for Best Play. The Tony, announced at the awards ceremony at Radio City Music Hall on June 8, is for Jacobs-Jenkins’ play “Purpose,” which made its Broadway premier at the Helen Hayes Theater in March. In “Purpose,” Brooks said, Jacobs-Jenkins offers audiences nuanced character studies, while at the same time “exploring each individual’s place in the universe, how we wrestle with and resolve our personal hopes and dreams and disappointments in life while managing the collective hopes and dreams of a people.”
Author: news@yale.edu (Yale News)
Published at: 2025-06-09 21:49:49
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