Jackie Sibblies Drury

Jackie Sibblies Drury is an American playwright and lives in Brooklyn, New York City. She is a graduate of the MFA Playwriting Program at Brown University.

In 2019 she was awarded with the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and with the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize for her play “Fairview”. The play “We Are Proud to Present a Presentation About the Herero of Namibia, Formerly Known as South West Africa, From the German Sudwestafrika, Between the Years 1884–1915” was shown in 2012 Off-Broadway at the Soho Repertory Theatre in New York City and had its European premiere at the Bush Theatre in London. Also her plays were shown at Berkeley Rep, New York City Players and Abrons Arts Center, Victory Gardens, Trinity Rep, Woolly Mammoth, Undermain Theatre, InterAct Theatre and many more. Jackie Sibblies Drury has been awarded with many prizes during her career. She won the Windham-Campbell Literary Prize in Drama and the Helen Merrill Playwriting Award. Her latest play “Marys Seacole” premiered at Lincoln Center Theatre in February 2019.

Jackie Sibblies Drury’s works often discuss Otherness and questions the conventional perspective on theatre and prejudices. Her plays are complex in structure but always have a high amount of entertainment. The jury describes her winning play “Fairview” with the following statement: “A hard-hitting drama that examines race in a highly conceptual, layered structure, ultimately bringing audiences into the actors’ community to face deep-seated prejudices.”

As of May 2021.