Ned Bennett and Branden Jacobs-Jenkins on An Octoroon
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The director and writer reflect on their production of An Octoroon.
\\n\\nNed Bennett directed Pomona at the Orange Tree Theatre, National Theatre and Royal Exchange; The Crocodile at the Manchester International Festival and Yen at the Royal Court and the Royal Exchange. He won the UK Theatre Award for Best Director for Pomona and Yen
\\n\\nBranden Jacobs-Jenkins won the 2014 Obie Award for Best New American Play for Appropriate and An Octoroon. He was a finalist for the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for Gloria, and was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2016.
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