JT Rogers

JT performed on stage for Seriously Entertaining at Joe’s Pub at The Public Theater on December 5, 2017, speaking on the evening’s theme, “Caught In The Act.”

JT Rogers is a playwright whose 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. As one of the playwrights for the Tricycle Theatre of London’s The Great Game: Afghanistan he was nominated for an Olivier Award. His works have been staged throughout the United States and in Germany, Canada, Australia, and Israel. He is a Guggenheim fellow and has received three NYFA fellowships in playwriting. Rogers is a member of the Dramatist Guild, where he is a founding board member of the Dramatists Legal Defense Fund. 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.

In his own words: “When I’m starting a new project, I burrow into research and draw a circle as tightly as I can around “the facts” and the plot and the characters I’m creating. It’s only when I’ve boxed myself tightly in that I find my imagination is released.”