Princeton alumnus Branden Jacobs-Jenkins and Jane Cox, a professor at the University’s Lewis Center for the Arts, have both won Tony Awards for the play “Appropriate.”

Jacobs-Jenkins, who wrote “Appropriate,” won the Tony for Best Revival of a Play at Sunday’s 77th Annual Tony Awards.

Cox won the Tony for Best Lighting Design of a Play.

The show’s star Sarah Paulson also won, for Best Performance by an Actress.

“Everything about this process has been too good to be true,” Jacob-Jenkins said in a backstage Tony Awards interview — including Paulson’s decision to sign on as lead. “I swear, I didn’t believe it was real until we were in the first day of rehearsals,” he said.

"I’m so delighted to win a Tony for working on a play by one of the greatest writers of our time — Princeton alum Branden Jacobs-Jenkins ’06,” Cox said. “This brilliant, provocative and haunted play is an incredible vehicle for design, calling for precision and imagination in getting light into this metaphorical and literally dark space.”

She continued: “It was also delightful to be in the company of several Princeton folks, including the incredible Jeff Kuperman ’12, whose choreography (along with brother Rick) for the Tony-winning musical ‘The Outsiders’ was brilliantly displayed during the awards ceremony.”