Through the Helen Clanton Morrin Lecture series we continue to teach our students that theatre does not simply entertain, but in fact emboldens us to make change.
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins is a writer and theatre artist whose plays include Purpose, Appropriate, The Comeuppance, Girls, Everybody, War, Gloria, An Octoroon and Neighbors. He is a Professor in the Practice at Yale University and serves as Vice President of the Dramatists Guild council. He has been the recipient of two Tony awards, a Pulitzer Prize, the MacArthur fellowship, the Windham-Campbell Prize for Drama, and the inaugural Tennessee Williams Award.
Event details:
Friday, September 18, 2026
3:00 PM – Reception immediately to follow
Emerson Auditorium, Knight Hall
Branden’s visit is in conjunction with the Tennessee Williams Festival of St. Louis and its production of ‘Appropriate’ and is co-sponsored by the WashU Departments of African & African American Studies, American Culture Studies, Art History & Archeology, English, History, and the Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity & Equity (CRE2).
This event is free and open to the public.