FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: December 7, 2020 | CONTACT: Corinna Schulenburg, cschulenburg@tcg.org, 212-609-5941
New from TCG Books:
Gloria
by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
NEW YORK, NY – Theatre Communications Group (TCG) is pleased to announce the publication of Gloria by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins. The play received its world premiere at the Vineyard Theatre in New York in the summer of 2015.
“The bitingly funny and fierce Gloria is one of the year’s best shows…Gloria is an adrenaline rush of a show, but it also makes you think. Let’s just say it hits the bull’s-eye.” —Elisabeth Vincentelli, New York Post
An ambitious group of editorial assistants at a prestigious Manhattan-based literary magazine are each chasing the same dream: a life as a successful writer—and to get out of their cubicles before they turn thirty. When a regular day at the office suddenly becomes anything but, the stakes for who will get to tell the career-making story are higher than ever.
“Funny, blistering tragicomedy…along with a delightfully omnipresent, biting wit…You’ll be unsettled by Gloria, perhaps even haunted.” —Peter Marks, Washington Post
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins is a Brooklyn-based writer and award-winning theater artist. His other plays include Girls, Everybody, War, Appropriate, An Octoroon, and Neighbors. He teaches at The University of Texas at Austin.
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Gloria
By Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
96 pages
August 2020
$15.95
Paperback
978-1-55936-545-1
eBook
978-1-55936-866-7
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