Playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Named 2016 MacArthur 'Genius Grant' Fellow by Gordon Cox

Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, the 31-year-old playwright who’s considered one of the theater world’s most important young creatives, is among the 23 artists and scientists to receive a 2016 MacArthur Fellowship, the $625,000 grant that’s often referred to as the “Genius Grant.” Comic book writer Gene Luen Yang, who’s won praise for graphic novels “American Born Chinese”... R…

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