Michael R. Jackson

Michael R. Jackson is a playwright, composer, and lyricist who holds a BFA and MFA in playwriting and Musical Theatre Writing from NYU Tisch School of the Arts. He won the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for A Strange Loop, becoming the first African American to win a Pulitzer for a musical and the first playwright to win for a musical that had not appeared on Broadway. He wrote book, music, and lyrics for A Strange Loop, which began as a monologue in 2001 and had its world premiere in 2019 at Playwrights Horizons, funded in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.