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Ma-Yi Theater Company has announced that Lisa Sanaye Dring has been awarded a 2024 Tow Foundation Playwright Residency. Ma-Yi has also announced the 2024 Ma-Yi Writers Lab cohort, which is the largest collective of AANHPI playwrights in the country.

Nathan Louis Jackson, the Kansas City, Kansas-based playwright who also wrote for "Luke Cage," died on Aug. 22 at the age of 44.

Nathan Louis Jackson, the nationally-renowned and award-winning theater playwright and writer for the series phenomenon "Luke Cage," has died. He was 44.

Kansas City-based playwright and screenwriter Nathan Louis Jackson died Tuesday at 44. His family said in a statement that his heart belonged in Kansas City.

Nathan Louis Jackson, playwright and screenwriter, passed away on Tuesday, August 22 at the age of 44.  Born and raised in Kansas City, KS, Nathan was a graduate of Washington High School, an alum of Kansas City Kansas Community College and Kansas State University and The Juilliard School where he received his MFA in Playwriting. 

Mr. Jackson's works include Broke-ology , Sticky Traps , and The Last Black Play .

A benefit reading of short Ukrainian plays based on what the playwrights are experiencing in their war-torn country.