Artist

Brooklyn-based playwright, producer and two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist. Most, recently he was the showrunner, executive producer and writer for HULU/FX’s drama series, Kindred, based on Octavia E. Butler’s groundbreaking novel. His plays include Girls, Everybody, War (Yale Rep; Lincoln Center/LCT3), Gloria (Vineyard Theatre), Appropriate (Obie Award; Signature Theatre), An Octoroon (Obie Award; Soho Rep, Theatre for a New Audience) and Neighbors (The Public Theater). A Residency Five playwright at Signature Theatre, his honors include a USA Artists, Guggenheim and MacArthur fellowships, the Windham-Campbell Prize for Drama and the inaugural Tennessee Williams Award, and he currently serves as Vice President of the Dramatists Guild council. He teaches at Yale University.