Playwright JT Rogers is the winner of numerous awards including the Tony Award for his play Oslo. It’s with great pleasure to welcome this gifted playwright and friend to our theatre again. We had produced the West Coast premiere of his play Madagascar in 2008.
J.T. Rogers is the creator and showrunner for the upcoming series Tokyo Vice for HBOMax, starring Ansel Elgort and Ken Watanabe. His latest play One Giant Leap: The Apollo 11 Moon Landing, celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of humankind’s first steps on the moon, debuted on Broadway this past July and was live-streamed around the world. His other plays include Oslo (Lincoln Center Theater, then Broadway; National Theatre, London, then West End); Blood and Gifts (Lincoln Center Theater; National Theatre); The Overwhelming (National Theatre, then UK tour with Out of Joint; Roundabout Theatre); White People (Off Broadway with Starry Night Productions); and Madagascar (Theatre 503, London; Melbourne Theatre Company). For Oslo he won the Tony, New York Critics, Outer Critics, Drama Desk, Drama League, Lortel, and Obie awards, and was nominated for the Olivier and Evening Standard Awards. As one of the playwrights for the Tricycle Theatre of London’s The Great Game: Afghanistan he was also nominated for an Olivier Award.
His works have been staged throughout the United States and in Germany, Canada, Australia, South Korea, Japan, Israel, and Norway. Rogers’s essays have been published in The New York Times, The Guardian, and the New Statesman. He is a Guggenheim fellow and has received three NYFA fellowships in playwriting. Upcoming projects include his adaptation of the film of Oslo, produced by Marc Platt and directed by Tony-winner Bartlett Sher, and a new play for Lincoln Center Theater. He is an alum of New Dramatists and holds an honorary doctorate from his alma mater, the University of North Carolina School of the Arts.
Up Next
Our next conversation is with actor/director Andrew Barnicle, former Artistic Director of Laguna Playhouse, and who you have seen many times on our stage or behind the scenes directing our plays. The last play he directed for us was the charming Bloomsday.
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