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J. T. Rogers is an award-winning playwright whose works have been seen across the U.S. and the world. His latest play Oslo was sold at Lincoln Center Theater in 2016 and reopens on Broadway in the spring of 2017. He is the only American playwright to have two plays debut at the National Theatre, London, with Blood and Gifts (National Theatre, London; Lincoln Center Theater, Drama Desk Award Nominee, and Lucille Lortel Award Nominee) and The Overwhelming (National Theatre, London and Roundabout Theatre, NYC). Rogers’s other plays include White People (Off Broadway with Starry Night Productions); and Madagascar (SPF Festival in NYC and Melbourne Theatre Company).
As one of the original playwrights for the Tricycle Theatre of London’s The Great Game: Afghanistan, he was nominated for an Olivier Award. His works have been staged throughout the United States and in Germany, Canada, Australia, and Israel, and are published by Faber and Faber and Dramatists Play Service.
He is a 2012 Guggenheim fellow in playwriting and is under commission from Lincoln Center Theater and the Royal National Theatre. Recent awards include, NEA/TCG and NYFA fellowships, the Pinter Review Prize for Drama, the American Theater Critics Association’s Osborne Award, and the William Inge Center for the Arts’ New Voices Award. Rogers serves on the board of the Dramatists Legal Defense Fund. He is an alumnus of New Dramatists and holds an honorary doctorate from his alma mater, the University of North Carolina School of the Arts.
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