Jackie Sibblies Drury is a Brooklyn-based playwright. Her play We Are Proud to Present a Presentation About the Herero of Namibia, Formerly Known as South West Africa, From the German Südwestafrika, Between the Years 1884-1915 had its world premiere at Victory Gardens Theater in Chicago and its New York premiere at Soho Rep in the fall of 2012. Drury's work has been featured at PRELUDE.11, the Bay Area Playwrights Festival, Victory Gardens' 2010 Ignition Festival, American Theater Company's 10 x 10 Festival and the Magic Theatre's Virgin Play Series. Drury received a 2012-13 Van Lier Playwriting Fellowship at New Dramatists. She was a member of the 2011-12 Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab, a 2010-12 New York Theatre Workshop Emerging Artist of Color Fellow and a member of The Civilians' R&D Group. She was the dramaturg and contributing writer for Zero Cost House, a collaboration between Pig Iron Theatre Company and Japanese playwright Toshiki Okada. Drury is a New York Theatre Workshop Usual Suspect and a MacDowell Colony Fellow. She is a graduate of Brown University's M.F.A. playwriting program, where she received the David Wickham Prize in Playwriting. Her play Social Creatures was commissioned by Trinity Repertory Company in Providence, R.I., and premiered there in March 2013. Drury is the inaugural recipient of the 2012-14 Jerome New York Fellowship at the Lark Play Development Center.
