J. T. Rogers

J. T. Rogers (born May 20, 1968) is an American playwright who lives in New York. Rogers’s plays include Oslo, Blood and Gifts, The Overwhelming, White People, and Madagascar. In 2017, Rogers' Oslo won the Tony Award for Best Play, the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Play, the Obie Award for Best New American Theatre Work, the Lucille Lortel Award for Best Play, the Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding New Broadway Play, and the Drama League Award for Outstanding Production of a Play,. Rogers is the creator, writer and showrunner for the HBO Max television series Tokyo Vice, starring Ansel Elgort and Ken Watanabe The eight-episode first season aired in 2022. Tokyo Vice was renewed for a second season, scheduled to air in 2023. His film of Oslo Tony Award-winning Oslo for HBO, directed by Bartlett Sher and executive produced by Steven Spielberg is available on HBO and HBO Max and was nominated for two Emmy Awards. 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.