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J. T. Rogers (born May 20, 1968) is an American playwright. He is best known for his play Oslo (2016) about the 1990s Oslo Peace Accords between Israel and Palestine. The play received widespread acclaim as well as the Tony Award, Drama Desk Award, and Obie Award for Best Play. He is also known for his plays Madagascar (2004),The Overwhelming (2006), Blood and Gifts (2010), and Corruption (2024). Rogers adapted his play into the HBO film Oslo (2021) which was executive produced by Steven Spielberg and received two Primetime Emmy Award nominations. Rogers is currently the creator, writer and showrunner for the HBO Max television series Tokyo Vice (2022–2024). Early life and education Rogers attended Rock Bridge High School in Columbia, Missouri, and graduated from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts in 1990, where he studied acting. He also received an honorary doctorate from UNCSA in 2009. Rogers serves on the board of the Dramatists Legal Defense Fund. Career 2004–2009: Early works J. T. Rogers' play Madagascar is set in a hotel room overlooking the Spanish Steps in Rome. It is about a mysterious disappearance that haunts the life of the play's three characters. It was commissioned by and had its world premiere at the Salt Lake Acting Company in November 2004. The play received the American Theatre Critics Association's 2004 M. Elizabeth Osborn Award and the 2005 Pinter Review Prize for Drama, which included its first publication by the University of Tampa Press and a related public dramatic reading. It was also a finalist for the ATCA's Steinberg New Play Award and performed at the Summer Play Festival in New York City in July 2005. The play had its Australian premiere at the Melbourne Theatre Company in February 2010, directed by Sam Strong. The play had its European debut at London's Theatre 503 in May 2010, directed by Tom Littler and featuring Sorcha Cusack, Barry Stanton and Miranda Foster.His play The Overwhelming, in which an American family who arrive in Kigali, Rwanda, in early 1994, must confront life-and-death realities of the Rwandan genocide, had its world premiere at the Cottesloe Theatre, Royal National Theatre, London, in association with Out of Joint, in May 2006. It then toured throughout the UK and was performed on BBC radio. Its American premiere was at the Roundabout Theatre in September 2007. He received the Otis Guernsey New Voices Playwriting Award at the 2007 William Inge Theatre Festival in Independence, Kansas. The Overwhelming has since been done throughout the world, and it was selected as a Top 10 Play of the Year by Time Magazine, Time Out New York and the Chicago TribuneIt was also nominated for Best Play of the Year by London's South Bank Show and Boston's Elliot Norton Awards.In 2009, Rogers was the sole American playwright along with 11 British authors to create The Great Game: Afghanistan for the Tricycle Theatre, London. The cycle of plays was a sensation, garnering an Olivier nomination for all involved. His White People, which had its world première at the Philadelphia Theatre Company and then received the L.A. Drama Critics Circle and John Barrymore Award nominations for "Best Play of the Year". The revised play was produced by Starry Night Entertainment Off-Broadway in 2009, and has been seen at the English Theatre of Berlin. The play was seen in repertory with Madagascar at the Road Theatre in Los Angeles in 2010. His Seeing the Elephant was nominated for the Joseph Kesselring Prize for "Best New American Play", and his play Murmuring in a Dead Tongue was produced by Epic Rep, in New York City, where he is a company member, in its 2003–2004 season. In 2008, it was mounted as part of the inaugural DC Theater Alliance. 2010–2019: Bloods and Gifts and Oslo Rogers wrote the full-length play Blood and Gifts, which debuted at the Lyttelton Theatre, Royal National Theatre, London, in September 2010, starring Lloyd Owen with direction by Howard Davies. The play premiered in the US Off-Broadway in October 2011 at the Lincoln Center Newhouse Theater, directed by Bartlett Sher. Charles Isherwood, in his review in The New York Times, wrote that the play was "superb", with a "first rate production...the characters...really seem to be living in this turbulent history..." The reviewer for The Guardian, Michael Billington, criticised the writer's "advantage of hindsight which lends much of the action a self-conscious irony" but otherwise praised him for a "complex, demanding play." The play was nominated for the 2012 Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Play and Outstanding Lead Actor, Jefferson Mays and the 2012 Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding New Off-Broadway Play and Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play, Jefferson Mays.Rogers' 2016 political drama Oslo became his most successful work to date, including a highly acclaimed Broadway run. Oslo premiered Off-Broadway at the Lincoln Center Newhouse Theatre to nearly universal acclaim. Oslo transferred to the Lincoln Center Beaumont Theatre, a Broadway house, where it opened on April 13, 2017. Of the larger Broadway production, Ben Brantley of the New York Times wrote that "J. T. Rogers's Oslo, an against-the-odds story of international peacemaking, is undeniably a big play, as expansive and ambitious as any in recent Broadway history. So it is particularly gratifying to announce that it has been allowed to stretch to its full height in the thrilling production that opened on Thursday night, directed with a master's hand by Bartlett Sher." Oslo's cast features Jennifer Ehle and Jefferson Mays, who also appeared in the Off-Broadway production.The Broadway production won seven awards for Best New Play, including the 2017 Tony Award for Best Play. After Broadway, Oslo transferred to London for a September 2017 run at the Royal National Theater, followed by a three-month transfer to the Harold Pinter Theatre in London's West End. [50] The London production was nominated for the 2017 Best Play by the Evening Standard Theater Awards and the 2018 Best New Play by the Laurence Olivier Awards. In 2018, Oslo opened in Tel Aviv, Israel, in South Korea by the National Theater Company of Korea, and later in Norway and Germany. The New National Theater in Japan ran the production in 2021. Rogers wrote the screenplay for a 2021 filmed version of his Tony Award-winning play Oslo. The film starred Ruth Wilson and Andrew Scott and was directed by Tony-winner Bartlett Sher, who helmed the Broadway play. Steven Spielberg and Marc Platt served as executive producers alongside Rogers, Sher, and Cambra Overend. It is a production of HBO and Endeavor Content. It nominated for two Primetime Emmy Awards. 2020–present Rogers wrote the television drama Tokyo Vice, based on the non-fiction book by Jake Adelstein. The eight-part series was produced for HBO Max and stars Ansel Elgort, playing Adelstein, an American journalist who embeds himself into the Tokyo Vice police squad to reveal cor.... Discover the J A Rogers popular books. Find the top 100 most popular J A Rogers books.

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  • Waggoner Carr v. Winnie Slaughter Rogers Et Al. synopsis, comments

    Waggoner Carr v. Winnie Slaughter Rogers Et Al.

    The Supreme Court of Texas

    The duly appointed executors of the estate of Birdie H. Frey brought this suit to have the court construe Mrs. Freys holographic last Will and Testament. The only question presente...

  • Blanche Pepple v. W. J. Rogers synopsis, comments

    Blanche Pepple v. W. J. Rogers

    En Banc. Supreme Court of Florida

    BROWN, J. The appellant as complainant in the court below filed a bill of complaint in the Circuit Court in and for Pinellas County against W. J. Rogers, a resident of Lake County...

  • The Lazarus Generation synopsis, comments

    The Lazarus Generation

    J. Clayton Rogers

    The Lazarus Generation is the sequel to The Lazarus Children, which chronicled the trials of a group of children abandoned deep in a forest after testing positive for COVID. Having...

  • Dirty Little Mermaids synopsis, comments

    Dirty Little Mermaids

    J.D. Rogers

    Hiram Bernard's twentyfive year old daughter is missing. Hiram contacts the police, but in a world inhabited by both humans and supernaturals, the police don't always want to get i...

  • S. J. Rogers Et Al. v. Charles Scaling synopsis, comments

    S. J. Rogers Et Al. v. Charles Scaling

    Fort Worth No. 15688 Court of Civil Appeals of Texas

    BOYD, Justice. This is an appeal from an order of a District Court of Tarrant County, overruling a plea of privilege filed by appellants S. J. Rogers and N. Jay Rogers, ...

  • The 56th Man synopsis, comments

    The 56th Man

    J. Clayton Rogers

    A former member of Saddam Hussein's Special Security Force arrives in Richmond, Virginia. Under the name of Ari Ciminon, he sets up house on the James River. The house was purchase...

  • Skunk Hunt synopsis, comments

    Skunk Hunt

    J. Clayton Rogers

    Killed in a botched robbery, Skunk McPherson returns to life via a series of letters to his children. In them he plants clues that send Mute, Sweet Tooth and Doubletalk McPherson o...

  • Josephus W. Williams And Maylon J. Rogers synopsis, comments

    Josephus W. Williams And Maylon J. Rogers

    Supreme Court Of Indiana

    On appeal from the denial of a PostConviction Relief Petition, the Court of Appeals in an opinion by Sullivan, J., White, J., Concurring in result, Buchanan, J., Dissenting, revers...

  • Judas Laughed synopsis, comments

    Judas Laughed

    J. Clayton Rogers

    As a doula hired to provide guidance and support to pregnant women, Amani Abdelhamid's foremost concern is for the wellbeing of mothers and their muchanticipated newborns.  On...

  • The Lazarus Children synopsis, comments

    The Lazarus Children

    J. Clayton Rogers

    After testing positive for a deadly virus, a group of children is abandoned in a state forest. Lost, and with few resources, they set out to find Slate Mountain and a refugee camp ...

  • William J. Rogers v. State Texas synopsis, comments

    William J. Rogers v. State Texas

    Third District, Austin Court of Appeals of Texas

    Appeal is taken from a conviction for evading arrest. See Texas Penal Code Ann. § 38.04 (Supp. 1992). Trial was before the court on a plea of not guilty. Punishment was assessed a...

  • S. J. Rogers Et Al. v. Charles Scaling synopsis, comments

    S. J. Rogers Et Al. v. Charles Scaling

    fort Worth Court of Civil Appeals of Texas

    This is an appeal from an order of a District Court of Tarrant County, overruling a plea of privilege filed by appellants S. J. Rogers and N. Jay Rogers, to be sued in Jefferson Co...

  • In Troubadour-Land. A ramble in Provence and Languedoc ... Illustrated by J. E. Rogers. synopsis, comments

    In Troubadour-Land. A ramble in Provence and Languedoc ... Illustrated by J. E. Rogers.

    S. Baring-Gould & J. E. Rogers

    The FICTION & PROSE LITERATURE collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. The collection provides readers with a perspective of the world from s...

  • Robert K. Shannon Et Al v. S. J. Rogers Et Al synopsis, comments

    Robert K. Shannon Et Al v. S. J. Rogers Et Al

    Supreme Court of Texas

    On motion for rehearing the opinion handed down on April 16, 1958, is withdrawn and the following substituted therefor.

  • State Ex Rel. Mrs. S. R. Collins v. J. M. Rogers synopsis, comments

    State Ex Rel. Mrs. S. R. Collins v. J. M. Rogers

    En Banc. Supreme Court of Florida

    Per Curiam. In mandamus proceedings the alternative writ was quashed September 6, 1938. A writ of error was taken March 6, 1939, which was not ""Within six months from the date of"...

  • Backside synopsis, comments

    Backside

    J. Clayton Rogers

    Homophobic Ari Ciminon (The 56th Man) almost meets his match when he searches for a young man who has run off with the Thebans, a group of gay bicyclists for whom fitness is paramo...

  • Deadly Little Mermaids synopsis, comments

    Deadly Little Mermaids

    J.D. Rogers

    Low Campbell, excop, private detective, and mermaid, has been offered a job that she can't turn down. Titus Hawthorn, the city's oldest and most powerful vampire, wants Low to prot...

  • Short-Order Cop synopsis, comments

    Short-Order Cop

    J. Clayton Rogers

    Recovering from a seizure, Ari Ciminon (The 56th Man) is enlisted by the Richmond Police Department while still in his hospital bed. In less than two months, four Arabs have been m...

  • Lavina Rogers v. Ricane Enterprises synopsis, comments

    Lavina Rogers v. Ricane Enterprises

    Supreme Court Of Utah

    This is an appeal of a summary judgment in a trespass to try title action involving a partial assignment of an oil and gas lease. Lavina Rogers and others (the Rogers Group), share...

  • The Fallen and the Elect synopsis, comments

    The Fallen and the Elect

    Jerry J. K. Rogers

    "Not all angels are the same."Who would even begin to think that angels would indiscriminately present eulogies at random funeral services immediately after millions mysteriously d...

  • The Gift of Sunderland synopsis, comments

    The Gift of Sunderland

    J. E. Rogers

    A rift has been created in the Ayers’ lineage. Roland Ayers, Guardian of the Forest, knows that he must obey the voices of past Guardians and declare the next in line. When the ann...

  • The New Negro synopsis, comments

    The New Negro

    Alain Locke

    From the man known as the father of the Harlem Renaissance comes a powerful, provocative, and affecting anthology of writers who shaped the Harlem Renaissance movement and who help...

  • Hurt v. Charles J. Rogers Transp. Co. synopsis, comments

    Hurt v. Charles J. Rogers Transp. Co.

    The Supreme Court of the State of Ohio

    BELL, J. The sole question presented by this appeal is whether, as a matter of law, Rogers is entitled to final judgment.

  • Mean Spirit synopsis, comments

    Mean Spirit

    J. Clayton Rogers

    Charlie Bretall comes to believe the malevolent spirit of a dead man possesses his daughter. He risks his sanity and his life to save her, only to encounter evidence that he is bei...

  • Princess Wars synopsis, comments

    Princess Wars

    J.D. Rogers

    Lila Marie Haran grew up knowing her destiny lay in one of two places. When her mother, the Queen of Adah died, she would either ascend to her mother's throne, or end up in an unma...

  • Keith Rogers v. Hon. Thomas Clinton synopsis, comments

    Keith Rogers v. Hon. Thomas Clinton

    Supreme Court Of Utah

    This mandamus proceeding is unusual because it is filed by the plaintiffs and the defendant in the underlying suit. Relators Keith Dennis Rogers, Stacy Rogers, and Joe Taylor Sams ...

  • The American Pain synopsis, comments

    The American Pain

    J. Clayton Rogers

    Ari Ciminon (the 56th Man) appreciates beautiful birds and wellcrafted weapons. He yearns for a luxury sedan suitable to his aesthetic palate (a Maserati Quattroporte would suit hi...

  • Cherokee Water Company v. Martha Paul Rogers forderhause synopsis, comments

    Cherokee Water Company v. Martha Paul Rogers forderhause

    Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas

    This case involves the construction of a deed. The deed conveyed the surface of the subject property, but the grantors reserved the mineral estate. The deed gave the grantee, Chero...

  • State v. Rogers synopsis, comments

    State v. Rogers

    Appellate Division New Jersey Superior Court

    The basic issue argued at the sentencing hearing was whether defendant should receive concurrent or consecutive prison terms for the two murders. The trial judge imposed a 30year p...

  • The Competition synopsis, comments

    The Competition

    J.D. Rogers

    Lila Marie Haran, dubbed Destiny's Queen, rules a land that's at peace. Until the Voss arrive. They come from the other side of the planet, from a continent Lila and her people did...

  • Frank Odis Rogers v. Teri Lyn Rogers synopsis, comments

    Frank Odis Rogers v. Teri Lyn Rogers

    The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals

    The District Court of Mills County rendered a default judgment granting Mrs. Teri Lyn Rogers a divorce from her husband, Frank Odis Rogers. The judgment contained an order appointi...

  • Stephanie Rogers v. Walmart Stores synopsis, comments

    Stephanie Rogers v. Walmart Stores

    Thirteenth District, Corpus Christi Court of Appeals of Texas

    This appeal arises from a product liability lawsuit brought by the parents of Stephanie Rogers, a minor, against Walmart Stores, Inc. and Baby Togs, Inc. (Walmart). At issue is the...

  • Cherokee Water Company v. Martha Paul Rogers forderhause Et Al. synopsis, comments

    Cherokee Water Company v. Martha Paul Rogers forderhause Et Al.

    Fourteenth District, Houston Court of Appeals of Texas

    Martha Forderhause and others sued Cherokee Water Company seeking reformation of a deed provision which granted Cherokee a right of first refusal on all oil and gas leases. The dee...

  • Deranged Little Mermaids synopsis, comments

    Deranged Little Mermaids

    J.D. Rogers

    Low Campbell, excop, private detective, and mermaid, has made a lot of enemies over the years. Now, some of her dead enemies are popping up again. It seems that somebody is cloning...

  • Perlinger v. J.C. Rogers Const. Co. synopsis, comments

    Perlinger v. J.C. Rogers Const. Co.

    South Carolina Supreme Court

    1 On September 26, 1984, petitioner James E. Perlinger was injured accidently while shoveling sand for his employer, J.C. Rogers Construction Company. Petitioner was treated by a c...

  • Freddy J. Hendler v. Rogers House Condominium synopsis, comments

    Freddy J. Hendler v. Rogers House Condominium

    Fourth District Court of Appeal of Florida

    This cause is before us on appeal from the Circuit Court, Seminole County. Appeal was originally taken from the Circuit Court to the District Court of Appeal, Fourth District, and ...

  • Stacey v. Charles J. Rogers Inc. synopsis, comments

    Stacey v. Charles J. Rogers Inc.

    United States Court Of Appeals For The Sixth Circuit

    In this securities fraud case, appellants allege that the district court erred in its jury instructions and in not admitting certain parol evidence. Because we find that we do not ...

  • Yvonne Rogers v. R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. synopsis, comments

    Yvonne Rogers v. R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co.

    Court of Special Appeals of Maryland

    Yvonne Rogers, individually and as Executrix of her late husbands estate, appeals an adverse grant of summary judgment on the wrongful death, loss of consortium, and intentional in...

  • Close Before Striking synopsis, comments

    Close Before Striking

    J. Clayton Rogers

    Hank Cheatham, a professor of American History at a state university, has begun to suspect he is losing his mind. He has frequent blackouts, and often regains consciousness at the ...

  • The American Pain synopsis, comments

    The American Pain

    J. Clayton Rogers

    Ari Ciminon (the 56th Man) appreciates beautiful birds and wellcrafted weapons. He yearns for a luxury sedan suitable to his aesthetic palate (a Maserati Quattroporte would suit hi...

  • Belinda Moore Rogers v. Robert Stell and Mary Stell synopsis, comments

    Belinda Moore Rogers v. Robert Stell and Mary Stell

    Supreme Court of Texas No. D-2348

    Per Curiam We hold that an undisclosed individual party witness may testify at trial where the party did not respond to or supplement her response to an interrogatory se...

  • Lost in Time synopsis, comments

    Lost in Time

    J.D. Rogers

    What happens when people believe you've become too powerful? Lila Marie Haran won the thirteenth round of the Princess Wars and now rules as Queen of Adah. But some people think sh...