GLORIA

By Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
Directed by Evan Cabnet
with Kyle Beltran, Catherine Combs, Michael Crane,
Jennifer Kim, Jeanine Serralles, Ryan Spahn

Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, 2014 Obie Award winner for Best New American Play (AN OCTOROON, APPROPRIATE) and winner of The Vineyard’s Paula Vogel Playwriting Award, makes his Vineyard mainstage debut with GLORIA. This funny, trenchant and powerful new play follows an ambitious group of editorial assistants at a notorious  Manhattan magazine, each of whom hopes for a starry life of letters and a book deal before they turn thirty. But when an ordinary humdrum workday becomes anything but, the stakes for who will get to tell their own story become higher than ever. Developed at The Vineyard during Branden’s residency, GLORIA is directed by Evan Cabnet (OUTSIDE PEOPLE).

This production is supported in part by generous grants from the John and Robyn Horn Foundation, the Laurents/Hatcher Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts.

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From left to right: Catherine Combs, Jeanine Serralles. Photo by Carol Rosegg.
From left to right: Jennifer Kim, Catherine Combs, Kyle Beltran. Photo by Carol Rosegg.
From left to right: Jennifer Kim, Catherine Combs. Photo by Carol Rosegg.
From left to right: Ryan Spahn, Jennifer Kim, Catherine Combs. Photo by Carol Rosegg.
From left to right: Jeanine Serralles, Ryan Spahn. Photo by Carol Rosegg.
From left to right: Ryan Spahn, Kyle Beltran. Photo by Carol Rosegg.
From left to right: Jennifer Kim, Ryan Spahn, Catherine Combs. Photo by Carol Rosegg.
From left to right: Jennifer Kim, Ryan Spahn. Photo by Carol Rosegg.
From left to right: Catherine Combs, Michael Crane. Photo by Carol Rosegg.
From left to right: Ryan Spahn, Jeanine Serralles. Photo by Carol Rosegg.
Michael Crane, Kyle Beltran. Photo by Carol Rosegg.

Artists

Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s plays include Girls, Everybody, War, Gloria, Appropriate, An Octoroon, and Neighbors. A Residency Five playwright at Signature Theatre and a 2020 Guggenheim fellow, his honors include a USA Artists fellowship, the Charles Wintour Award, the MacArthur fellowship, the Windham-Campbell Prize for Drama, the Steinberg Playwriting Award, and the inaugural Tennessee Williams Award. A proud member of the Dramatists Guild council, he serves on the boards of Soho Rep and the Dramatists Guild Foundation and is an Associate Professor of Practice at the University of Texas at Austin.