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• World premiere at the Vineyard Theatre (Off Broadway, New York) in the spring of 2015, as a part of Jacobs-Jenkins’ residency at the theatre

• Subsequent production at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago in the winter of 2017

• Named a finalist for the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Drama

• Selected as a Time Out New York and New York Times Critics’ Pick

• Jacobs-Jenkins received the 2014 Obie Award for Best New American Play for his plays Appropriate and An Octoroon

• He received the Windham–Campbell Literature Prize (Drama) at Yale University in 2016

• He received the 2016 PEN/Laura Pels Award, Emerging American Playwright
In 2011, he received the Helen Merrill Award in Playwriting -- Emerging Playwright category, and the Paula Vogel Award from the Vineyard Theatre