Branden Jacobs-Jenkins - 2026 ACF Regionals

Question

In a play by this author, the younger members of the Lafayette family discover a photo album of lynchings while going through their dead father’s belongings. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this playwright of Appropriate and Gloria. Naz returns home amid a slew of family scandals in a Pulitzer-winning play by this author in which his father Solomon is a thinly-veiled depiction of Jesse Jackson.

ANSWER: Branden Jacobs-Jenkins (The latter play is Purpose.)

[10m] Jacobs-Jenkins adapted a Dion Boucicault melodrama set at one of these locations, where couples role-play in a Jeremy O. Harris play. In another play, Oscar Hubbard inherits one of these places when he marries Birdie.

ANSWER: plantations [prompt on estates; prompt on houses or homes] (Harris’s play is Slave Play, and the latter play is The Little Foxes.)

[10e] Jacobs-Jenkins has stated that the Jasper family matriarch in his play Purpose exists in dialogue with Lena Younger from this Lorraine Hansberry play.

ANSWER: A Raisin in the Sun

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Summary


California (South)	Main Site	Y	4	10.00	75%	25%	0%
Canada	Main Site	Y	10	14.00	90%	40%	10%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main Site	Y	1	10.00	100%	0%	0%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main Site	Y	6	11.67	100%	17%	0%
Midwest	Main Site	Y	8	13.75	88%	50%	0%
Northeast	Main Site	Y	5	16.00	100%	60%	0%
Overflow	Main Site	Y	3	10.00	100%	0%	0%
UK	Main Site	Y	12	14.17	92%	33%	17%

Data


UC Santa Barbara	Arizona State	0	0	10	10
UC Irvine	UCSD C	0	0	0	0
UCSD B	UCLA A	0	0	10	10
UCLA B	UCSD A	0	10	10	20
Toronto Metropolitan	Carleton University	0	10	10	20
McMaster A	Guelph	0	10	10	20
Toronto B	Queen's	0	0	10	10
Toronto D	Brock	0	0	0	0
Toronto E	Simon Fraser	0	0	10	10
Waterloo B	Toronto F	0	0	10	10
UBC A	McGill B	0	0	10	10
UBC B	Ottawa	10	10	10	30
McGill A	Waterloo A	0	10	10	20
Toronto G	Western B	0	0	10	10
Liberty B	NC State B	0	0	10	10
Liberty A	North Carolina C	0	0	10	10
VCU	South Carolina A	0	0	10	10
North Carolina B	South Carolina B	0	0	10	10
Virginia	Virginia Tech A	0	0	10	10
William and Mary	Virginia Tech B	0	0	10	10
North Carolina A	Liberty C	0	10	10	20
Illinois A	Illinois C	0	10	10	20
Chicago D	Chicago B	0	0	10	10
Chicago A	Chicago C	0	10	10	20
Chicago E	Indiana B	0	0	0	0
Purdue A	Illinois B	0	0	10	10
Indiana A	Northwestern B	0	10	10	20
Harvard A	Bowdoin A	0	10	10	20
Southern Connecticut State	Bowdoin B	0	0	10	10
Brandeis A	Harvard B	0	10	10	20
MIT	Brandeis B	0	10	10	20
Brown	Yale	0	0	10	10
Iowa State	Carleton College	0	0	10	10
Georgia Tech A	Missouri A	0	0	10	10
Washington A	Claremont	0	0	10	10
Edinburgh A	Bristol	10	0	10	20
Edinburgh B	Southampton A	0	0	10	10
Cardiff	Imperial C	0	0	0	0
UCL	Montpellier	0	0	10	10
Oxford B	Southampton B	10	10	10	30
Oxford A	Warwick A	0	0	10	10
City St. George's	Warwick B	0	0	10	10
Birmingham	LSE	0	0	10	10
Cambridge A	Imperial A	0	10	10	20
Manchester	Cambridge B	0	10	10	20
Cambridge C	Oxford C	0	0	10	10
Durham	Imperial B	0	10	10	20
Purdue B	Northwestern C	0	10	10	20
Notre Dame B	Northwestern D	0	0	10	10