Jackson is an alum of ’s Interstate 73 Writers Group.
Awards and associations include the New Professional Theatre Festival Award, a Jonathan Larson Grant, a Lincoln Center Emerging Artist Award, an ASCAP Foundation Harold Adamson Award, a Whiting Award, the Helen Merrill Award for Playwriting, an Outer Critics Circle Award, a Drama Desk Award, an Obie Award, an Antonyo Award, a Fred Ebb Award, and a Dramatist Guild Fellowship. Escher: the hand that lifts from the page, becoming almost real, then draws another hand, which returns the favor.” In addition to A Strange Loop, Jackson also wrote book, music, and lyrics for White Girl in Danger. In The New Yorker, Vinsom Cunningham wrote, “To watch this show is to enter, by some urgent, bawdy magic, an ecstatic and infinitely more colorful version of the famous surreal lithograph by M.C. In this play for two variables, Marcus du Sautoy and Victoria Gould use mathematics. Jackson’s Pulitzer Prize and New York Drama Critics Circle winning musical A Strange Loop (which had its 2019 world premiere at Playwrights Horizons in association with Productions) was called “a full-on laparoscopy of the heart, soul, and loins” and a “gutsy, jubilantly anguished musical with infectious melodies” by Ben Brantley for The New York Times. Each begins to long for what the other has, luring them into a strange loop. Jackson is a 2021 Hermitage Fellow and the recipient of the 2020 Pulitzer Prize in Drama.
Join Jackson as part of the “Hermitage Sunsets Selby Gardens” series and hear from the writer-composer whose work has been described by The New York Times as being driven by “curiosity, positivity, and humor - but also an irrepressible appetite for the possible.” Since his critically acclaimed musical, A Strange Loop, premiered at Playwrights Horizons, the theater-maker has continued the work with projects such as White Girl in Danger and Accounts Payable, a commission from Lincoln Center. We use deep, interactive simulations to explore the boundaries of what can be done within a game. Jackson returns to the Hermitage following his popular beachfront program last season. Our goal at Strange Loop Games is to use the massive power of today’s hardware for gameplay, not just graphics. Since his critically acclaimed musical, A Strange Loop, premiered at Playwrights Horizons, the theater-maker has continued the work with projects such as White Girl in Danger and Accounts Payable, a commission from Lincoln Center. Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and composer Michael R. Marie Selby Botanical Gardens (Downtown Sarasota Campus Entrance at Payne Mansion, 1534 Mound Street, Sarasota, FL 34236 ) If you liked this, you might also like Execute Program: interactive courses on TypeScript, Modern.
This talk announces the most ambitious software project Ive ever undertaken, then considers why its existence is so surprising (and in some cases frustrating) to people. Presented in partnership with Marie Selby Botanical Gardens A talk by Gary Bernhardt from Strange Loop 2012.
Hermitage Sunsets Selby Gardens: “The Work” with Hermitage Fellow & Pulitzer Prize Winner Michael R.