Really and Other Plays

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Jackie Sibblies Drury is a Brooklyn based playwright. Her plays include Fairview; We Are Proud to Present a Presentation About the Herero of Namibia, Formerly Known as South West Africa, From the German Sudwestafrika, Between the Years 1884-1915; Really; Marys Seacole; and Social Creatures. She received a 2015 Windham-Campbell Literary Prize in Drama, a 2012-2013 Van Lier Fellowship at New Dramatists, and was the inaugural recipient of the 2012-2014 Jerome Fellowship at The LARK. Jackie is a NYTW Usual Suspect and a 2015 United States Artists Gracie Fellow. Her play Fairview won the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.

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Awards and Honors for Jackie Sibblies Drury: 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, 2019 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, and the 2019 Steinberg Playwright Award for her play *Fairview; *2015 Windham-Campbell Prize for Drama.

Really received its world premiere Off-Broadway at Abrons Art Center in a production by the New York City Players in the spring of 2016. It was directed by Richard Maxwell.

We Are Proud to Present… received its world premiere at Victory Gardens Theatre in Chicago in the spring of 2012. The play received its New York premiere Off-Broadway at Soho Rep in the fall of 2012

Social Creaturesreceived its world premiere at Trinity Rep in Providence, RI in the spring of 2013

Widely Produced Playwright: Drury's plays have been presented on Off-Broadway stages and developed at Sundance, The Ground Floor at Berkeley Rep, Manhattan Theatre Club, and Arts Nova, among others.

Collaborator with Richard Maxwell: Drury’s play Really was directed by TCG Books author Richard Maxwell and premiered with his company New York City Players.

Contributed to the story of Justin Peck’s Illinois: Drury helped craft the story for Justin Peck’s dance theatre production Illinois, based on the critically-acclaimed album by Sufjan Stevens.

Institutional Affiliations: Drury teaches playwriting at the Yale School of Drama. She was the 2012-2013 Van Lier Fellowship at New Dramatists and the inaugural recipient of the 2012-2014 Jerome Fellowship at The Lark. She was also a 2015 United States Artist Gracie Fellow and a NYTW Usual Suspect. She lives in Brooklyn.

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A collection of sharp, innovative plays by the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright of *Fairview*.

Jackie Sibblies Drury has established herself as a bold and formally innovative writer whose work upends expectations of what theater can be and should do. Her layered, complex plays deftly explore the ways in which the white gaze works to reduce and marginalize Black lives.

This new collection gathers three of her plays: Really; Social Creatures; and 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. In these works, comedy and tragedy hover side by side as the personal meets the political and the past meets the present. Each work is a reckoning, both with the looming specter of history, but also with the performative and fractured self.