J.T. Rogers' plays include Blood and Gifts, The Overwhelming, White People, and Madagascar. He was nominated for a 2009 Olivier Award for his work as one of the original playwrights for The Great Game: Afghanistan. He is a 2012 Guggenheim fellow in playwriting. Other recent awards include NEA/TCG and NYFA fellowships, the Pinter Review Prize for Drama, the American Theatre Critics Association's Osborne Award, and the William Inge Center for the Arts' New Voices Award.
The stuff of crackling theater. Combining investigative zeal and theatrical imagination with insider access, Oslo invites you into the chambers where the Oslo Accords between Israel and the Palestinian Liberation Organization were forged during nine fraught months in 1993. -- New York Times A riveting political thriller. Oslo makes a complex historical event feel intimate and profoundly affecting. -- Associated Press Gripping, big-boned and remarkably entertaining. Oslo feels excruciatingly necessary and timely. -- New York Magazine The stuff of crackling theater. Combining investigative zeal and theatrical imagination with insider access, Oslo invites you into the chambers where the Oslo Accords between Israel and the Palestinian Liberation Organization were forged during nine fraught months in 1993. New York Times A riveting political thriller. Oslo makes a complex historical event feel intimate and profoundly affecting. Associated Press Gripping, big-boned and remarkably entertaining. Oslo feels excruciatingly necessary and timely. New York Magazine