Writing Black

Tony Award winner Michael R. Jackson has a “Big, Black And Queer-Ass American Broadway Show”

Episode 9
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We are celebrating pride this whole month and we wanted to highlight a great conversation we had with Tony Award Winner Michael R. Jackson, the writer of the broadway play, “A Strange Loop.” Jackson talks with Maiysha about how it took decades for him to write his musical and the meaning behind writing a musical about a queer gay man that is writing a musical about a queer gay man writing a musical. 

Original airdate 10/23/22 

NEW YORK, NEW YORK – JUNE 12: Michael R. Jackson poses in the press room after winning for Best Book of a Musical for “A Strange Loop” during the 75th Annual Tony Awards at 3 West Club on June 12, 2022 in New York City. (Photo by Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images)

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