The Center for Fiction and TCG welcome one of America’s most inventive and profound playwrights, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, to celebrate the new publication of two of his plays, Appropriate/An Octoroon. Currently on Broadway in a critically-acclaimed and extended run, Appropriate unearths the buried secrets of a dysfunctional family as they gather at a former plantation home to sift through the belongings of their deceased patriarch. An Octoroon is an audacious investigation of a 1859 play about slavery with a metatheatrical, surreal punch. Award-winning Ghanaian-American writer/performer Jocelyn Bioh (Jaja’s African Hair Braiding) joins Jacobs-Jenkins in conversation. After the event, Jacobs-Jenkins will sign copies of the play. 

We continue our collaboration with CFF for this event, with past events featuring Jackie Sibblies Drury and Claudia Rankine; Annie Baker and Branden Jacobs-Jenkins; Heidi Schreck and Paula Vogel; Sarah Ruhl and Matthew Aucoin; Aleshea Harris and Nissy Aya; Lynn Nottage and Damon Tabor; Martyna Majok, Naveen Kumar, and David Zayas; Taylor Mac and Laura Collins-Hughes; Will Arbery, Chloé Cooper Jones, and Leslie Jamson; and James Ijames.

This event offers both in-person and virtual attendance.

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