Jaden Thompson Nathan Louis Jackson, a writer-producer on Netflix’s “Luke Cage” and the playwright behind “Broke-ology,” died on Aug.
22 at his home in Lenexa, Ks. He was 44. Jackson’s wife Megan Mascorro-Jackson told The Hollywood Reporter that her husband had dealt with heart issues and had undergone an aortic dissection in 2019.
Jackson was born on Dec. 4, 1978 and attended Kansas State University, where he first started writing plays. He later received his MFA in playwriting from the Juilliard School in New York City.
Jackson’s play “Broke-ology” premiered in 2008 at the Williamstown Theater Festival in Massachusetts before opening at the Mitzi E.
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