Oslo

About J. T. Rogers

J. T. Rogers is an American playwright whose work includes Oslo (Lincoln Center Theater NYC 2016; National Theatre London 2017); Blood and Gifts (National Theatre; Lincoln Center Theater); The Overwhelming (National Theatre followed by UK tour with Out of Joint; Roundabout Theatre NYC); White People (Off-Broadway with Starry Night Entertainment) and Madagascar (Theatre503 London; Melbourne Theatre Company). He is a co-author of the Olivier Award-nominated The Great Game: Afghanistan (Tricycle Theatre). His works have been staged throughout the United States and in Germany Canada Australia and Israel. For Oslo he won the Tony New York Critics Circle Outer Critics Circle Drama Desk Drama League Lortel and Obie awards. Rogerss essays have appeared in the New York Times in Londons Independent and the New Statesman and in American Theatre. He is a recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship and the Pinter Review Prize for Drama. Rogers serves on the board of the Dramatist Guilds Dramatists Legal Defense Fund. He is an alum of New Dramatists and holds an honorary doctorate from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts.