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  • Tony Award winner Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
    Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
    / Back-to-back Tonys for Appropriate and Purpose

    …Theatre in Chicago premiered Jacobs-Jenkins’s Purpose. Directed by Phylicia Rashad (best known for playing the matriarch on The Cosby Show), the play portrays the family reunion of members of a powerful Black political dynasty. In an interview with NewCity,

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    …Theatre in Chicago premiered Jacobs-Jenkins’s Purpose. Directed by Phylicia Rashad (best known for playing the matriarch on The Cosby Show), the play portrays the family reunion of members of a powerful Black political dynasty. In an interview with NewCity,

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