Biography
Nathan Louis Jackson (1978–2023) was an American playwright and television writer. He grew up in Kansas City, Kansas, attended Kansas State University and earned an MFA in playwriting from the Juilliard School.
His plays include Broke-ology, staged at Lincoln Center Theater in 2009, and When I Come to Die. He received two Lorraine Hansberry Playwriting Awards, the Mark Twain Comedy Playwriting Award and the Kennedy Center’s Gold Medallion. On television he wrote episodes of Shameless (2011), 13 Reasons Why (2017), Luke Cage, Southland and Resurrection, and served as executive story editor and co-producer on Luke Cage.
