The Art of Playwriting

• Friday, September 19
• 12:00 PM
• College Street Tent
• 470 College Street
• MAP
• FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

Join two of today’s most vital voices in theater, 2025 Windham-Campbell Prize recipients Roy Williams and Matilda Feyiṣayọ Ibini, for an illuminating discussion on the craft of playwriting. Celebrated for their distinctive styles and powerful narratives, Williams and Feyiṣayọ Ibini will share insights into their creative processes, exploring everything from developing compelling characters and dialogue to shaping impactful theatrical experiences. The conversation will be moderated by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, acclaimed playwright and faculty member at the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale. This is an essential event for aspiring playwrights, theater lovers, and anyone interested in the dynamic process of bringing stories to the stage.

Branden Jacobs-Jenkins is a Brooklyn-based playwright, writer and a professor in the practice at Yale University. His plays include Purpose, Appropriate, The Comeuppance, Girls, Everybody, War, Gloria, An Octoroon and Neighbors. His work has received the Pulitzer Prize, as well as Tony, New York Drama Critics’ Circle, Lortel, Drama League, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle, Jeff and Obie awards. His other honors include the Tennessee Williams Award, the Windham-Campbell Prize, and the MacArthur and Guggenheim fellowships. A graduate of Juilliard’s playwriting program, he is the vice president of the Dramatists Guild council and serves on the boards of DGF, Soho Rep and the Park Avenue Armory.