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The 2020 Pulitzer Prize and New York Drama Critics’ Circle–winning A Strange Loop (which had its 2019 world premiere at Playwrights Horizons in association with Page 73 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. In The New Yorker, Vinson 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. 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, he wrote book, music, and lyrics for White Girl in Danger. Awards and associations include a 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, a Windham-Campbell Prize, and a Dramatists Guild Fellowship. He is an alum of Page 73’s Interstate 73 Writers Group.

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[West End, 2023]
Book, Music & Lyrics
 
[Broadway, 2022] [Replacement]
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[Off-Broadway, 2019]
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Michael R. Jackson Awards and Nominations

Outer Critics Circle Awards - 2024 - Outstanding Book of a Musical (Broadway or Off-Broadway)

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Drama Desk Awards - 2023 - Outstanding Lyrics

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Drama Desk Awards - 2023 - Outstanding Music

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Tony Awards - 2022 - Best Book of a Musical

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Tony Awards - 2022 - Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre

Michael R. Jackson, A Strange Loop

Tony Awards - 2022 - Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre

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Drama Desk Awards - 2020 - Outstanding Book of a Musical

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Drama Desk Awards - 2020 - Outstanding Lyrics

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Drama Desk Awards - 2020 - Outstanding Music

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New York Drama Critics Circle Awards - 2020 - Best Musical

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Obie Awards - 2020 - Playwriting Award

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Obie Awards - 2020 - Special Citation

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Outer Critics Circle Awards - 2020 - Outstanding Book of a Musical

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Outer Critics Circle Awards - 2020 - Outstanding New Score

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The Pulitzer Prize - 2020 - Pulitzer Prize for Drama

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Michael R. Jackson FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

What awards has Michael R. Jackson been nominated for?

Michael R. Jackson has been nominated for the following awards: Outstanding Lyrics and Outstanding Music (Drama Desk Awards) for White Girl in Danger, Best Book of a Musical (Tony Awards) for A Strange Loop, Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre (Tony Awards) for A Strange Loop, Outstanding Book of a Musical, Outstanding Lyrics, and Outstanding Music (Drama Desk Awards) for A Strange Loop, Best Musical (New York Drama Critics Circle Awards) for A Strange Loop, Playwriting Award and Special Citation (Obie Awards) for A Strange Loop, Outstanding Book of a Musical (Outer Critics Circle Awards) for A Strange Loop, Outstanding New Score (Outer Critics Circle Awards) for A Strange Loop, and Pulitzer Prize for Drama (The Pulitzer Prize) for A Strange Loop.

What awards has Michael R. Jackson won?

Michael R. Jackson has won several awards for "A Strange Loop" including Best Book of a Musical at the Tony Awards, Outstanding Book of a Musical and Outstanding Lyrics at the Drama Desk Awards, Best Musical at the New York Drama Critics Circle Awards, a Playwriting Award and a Special Citation at the Obie Awards, Outstanding Book of a Musical at the Outer Critics Circle Awards, Outstanding New Score at the Outer Critics Circle Awards, and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama.

How many shows has Michael R. Jackson written?

Michael R. Jackson has written 2 shows including White Girl in Danger (Book), Teeth (Book & Lyrics).

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