J.T. Rogers is a playwright, screenwriter and founding partner of SRO productions. He is the creator, author and showrunner of Tokyo Vice on HBOMax, of which season two airs in February 2024. His new play Corruption opens at Lincoln Center Theater at the same time. His play Oslo was seen on Broadway and in the West End. For it, he received the 2017 Tony, New York Critics, Outer Critics, Drama Desk, Drama League, Lortel and Obie awards for Best Play, and was nominated for the Olivier and Evening Standard Awards. His film of Oslo, directed by his longtime collaborator Bartlett Sher, premiered on HBO and was nominated for 2 Emmy Awards, including Outstanding Television Movie.
His 2019 play One Giant Leap: The Apollo 11 Moon Landing, celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of humankind’s first steps on the moon, debuted on Broadway and was live-streamed around the world. Other plays include Blood and Gifts and The Overwhelming, which have been seen at the National Theater in London, at Lincoln Center Theater and around the US and the world.
Rogers’s essays have been published in The New York Times, The Guardian, and the New Statesman. He is a Guggenheim fellow and has received three NYFA fellowships in playwriting. He is an alum of New Dramatists and holds an honorary doctorate from his alma mater, the University of North Carolina School of the Arts.
At MacDowell, J. T. Rogers began work on his play In the House of War.
