Jackie Sibblies Drury is a playwright who worked on a theater piece about forests and farms during her 2011 residency. Her play We Are Proud to Present a Presentation About the Herero of Namibia, Formerly Known as Southwest Africa, From the German Sudwestafrika, Between the Years 1884–1915 was performed at the Bay Area Playwrights Festival and was produced at Chicago's Victory Gardens Theater in 2012. She has also written the plays Social Creatures (2013), Really (2016), Fairview (2018), and Marys Seacole (2019). Fairview, an examination of race, won the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
Disciplines:
Theatre – playwriting
Jackie Sibblies Drury
Disciplines:
Theatre – playwriting
Region: Brooklyn, NY
Residencies: 2011
Studios
Alexander
Jackie Sibblies Drury worked in the Alexander studio.
Funded through the generous support of Elizabeth Alexander, this studio was built in memory of her late husband, the renowned portrait painter John White Alexander (1856-1915). Originally designed as a visual art gallery, Marian MacDowell persuaded Elizabeth that the space would better serve the arts if commissioned as a visual…