The 2020 Pulitzer Prize and New York Drama Critics’ Circle–winning A Strange Loop (which had its 2019 world premiere at Playwrights Horizons in association with Page 73 Productions) was called “a full-on laparoscopy of the heart, soul, and loins” and a “gutsy, jubilantly anguished musical with infectious melodies” by Ben Brantley for The New York Times. In The New Yorker, Vinson Cunningham wrote, “To watch this show is to enter, by some urgent, bawdy magic, an ecstatic and infinitely more colorful version of the famous surreal lithograph by M. C. Escher: the hand that lifts from the page, becoming almost real, then draws another hand, which returns the favor.” In addition to A Strange Loop, he wrote book, music, and lyrics for White Girl in Danger. Awards and associations include a New Professional Theatre Festival Award, a Jonathan Larson Grant, a Lincoln Center Emerging Artist Award, an ASCAP Foundation Harold Adamson Award, a Whiting Award, the Helen Merrill Award for Playwriting, an Outer Critics Circle Award, a Drama Desk Award, an Obie Award, an Antonyo Award, a Fred Ebb Award, a Windham-Campbell Prize, and a Dramatists Guild Fellowship. He is an alum of Page 73’s Interstate 73 Writers Group.
From: Photos & Video: Trevor Noah Hosts Talkback at A STRANGE LOOP
From: Photos & Video: Trevor Noah Hosts Talkback at A STRANGE LOOP
From: Photos & Video: Trevor Noah Hosts Talkback at A STRANGE LOOP
From: Photos & Video: Trevor Noah Hosts Talkback at A STRANGE LOOP
From: Photos & Video: Trevor Noah Hosts Talkback at A STRANGE LOOP
From: Photos & Video: Trevor Noah Hosts Talkback at A STRANGE LOOP
From: Photos & Video: Trevor Noah Hosts Talkback at A STRANGE LOOP
From: Photos & Video: Trevor Noah Hosts Talkback at A STRANGE LOOP
Michael R. Jackson, Teeth
Michael R. Jackson, Teeth
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Michael R. Jackson, White Girl in Danger
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Michael R. Jackson, A Strange Loop
Michael R. Jackson, A Strange Loop
Michael R. Jackson, A Strange Loop
Michael R. Jackson, A Strange Loop
Michael R. Jackson, A Strange Loop
Michael R. Jackson, A Strange Loop
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Michael R. Jackson, A Strange Loop
Michael R. Jackson, A Strange Loop
Michael R. Jackson, A Strange Loop
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Michael R. Jackson has been nominated for various awards for his work in Broadway shows. These include nominations for Outstanding Book of a Musical and Outstanding Lyrics at the Drama Desk Awards for "Teeth" and "White Girl in Danger." He has also been nominated for Best Book of a Musical, Best Original Score, and Outstanding Music and Lyrics for "A Strange Loop" at prestigious events like the Tony Awards. Additionally, Jackson received nominations for Outstanding New Score at the Outer Critics Circle Awards and won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his work on "A Strange Loop."
Michael R. Jackson has won several awards for "A Strange Loop," including Best Book of a Musical at the Tony Awards, Outstanding Book of a Musical and Outstanding Lyrics at the Drama Desk Awards, Best Musical at the New York Drama Critics Circle Awards, a Playwriting Award and a Special Citation at the Obie Awards, Outstanding Book of a Musical at the Outer Critics Circle Awards, Outstanding New Score at the Outer Critics Circle Awards, and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
Michael R. Jackson has written 2 shows including White Girl in Danger (Book), Teeth (Book & Lyrics).
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