Title: An Octoroon
Content:  An Octoroon is a play written by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins. It is an adaptation of Dion Boucicault's The Octoroon, which premiered in 1859. Jacobs-Jenkins reframes Boucicault's play using its original characters and plot, speaking much of Boucicault's dialogue, and critiques its portrayal of race using Brechtian devices. Jacobs-Jenkins considers An Octoroon and his other works Appropriate and Neighbors linked in the exploration of theatre, genre, and how theatre interacts with questions of identity, along with how these questions (such as "Why do we think of a social issue as something that can be solved?") transform as a part of life. In a 2018 poll by critics of The New York Times, the work was ranked the second-greatest American play of the past 25 years.
Title: The Octoroon
Content:  The Octoroon is a play by Dion Boucicault that opened in 1859 at The Winter Garden Theatre, New York City. Extremely popular, the play was kept running continuously for years by seven road companies. Among antebellum melodramas, it was considered second in popularity only to Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852). Boucicault adapted the play from the novel The Quadroon by Thomas Mayne Reid (1856). It concerns the residents of a Louisiana plantation called Terrebonne, and sparked debates about the abolition of slavery and the role of theatre in politics. It contains elements of Romanticism and melodrama. The word octoroon signifies a person of one-eighth African ancestry. In comparison, a quadroon would have one quarter African ancestry and a mulatto for the most part has historically implied half African ancestry. The Oxford English Dictionary cites The Octoroon with the earliest record of the word "mashup" with the quote: "He don't understand; he speaks a mash up of Indian, French, and Mexican." Boucicault's manuscript actually reads "Indian, French and 'Merican." The last word, an important colloquialism, was misread by the typesetter of the play.
Title: The Octoroon (1912 film)
Content:  The Octoroon is an Australian film directed by George Young based on a popular play by Dion Boucicault which had recently enjoyed a popular run in Australia. It is considered a lost film.
Title: An Octoroon
Content: BJJ – a black playwright who plays the characters: ; George – the white heir to the Plantation Terrebonne, a photographer ; M'Closky – an evil white overseer who plots to buy Terrebonne and Zoe ; Playwright – a characterization of The Octoroons Caucasian author, Dion Boucicault who plays the roles of: ; Wahnotee – an Indian of ambiguous background, friends with Paul ; Lafouche – an auctioneer ; Assistant – Playwright's intern, to be played by an actor of Native American or South Asian descent, who plays the roles of: ; Pete – an older, loyal slave in charge of the house ; Paul – a pickaninny-type young slave ; Zoe – the titular octoroon. She is the 
Title: An Octoroon
Content:  Jacobs-Jenkins developed his take on The Octoroon while he was a Dorothy Strelsin Fellow at Soho Rep in the 2009/10 season. An Octoroon had a workshop production at Performance Space 122 from June 19 – July 3, 2010, featuring Travis York, Karl Allen, Chris Manley, Ben Beckley, Gabe Levey, Jake Hart, Margaret Flanagan, Amber Gray, Mary Wiseman, LaToya Lewis, Kim Gainer, and Sasheer Zamata. It was originally directed by Gavin Quinn of the Irish theatre company Pan Pan, but Jacobs-Jenkins took over the role after Quinn quit several weeks into rehearsals. Prior to the first performance, Alexis Soloski for The Village Voice published an email from cast member Karl Allen who wrote, "the play has transformed 
Title: Winter Garden Theatre (1850)
Content: Everybody talks about the Octoroon, [sic] wonders about the Octoroon, goes to see the Octoroon; and the "Octoroon" thus becomes, in point of fact, the work of the public mind...the public having insisted on rewriting the piece according to its own notions, interprets every word and incident in wholly unexpected lights; and, for aught we know, therefore, the "Octoroon" may prove after all to be a political treatise of great emphasis and significance, very much to the author's amazement. That winter, on December 5 of 1859, Boucicault premiered one of his most popular - and controversial - melodramas The Octoroon, subtitled "Life in Louisiana", which he had adapted from the novel 
Title: An Octoroon
Content:  an engaging piece of contemporary theatre directed by Gavin Quinn to a piece of crap that wouldn't hold a candle to some of the community theater I did in high school". Vallejo Gantner, artistic director of PS 122 along with theatre critics Elisabeth Vincentelli and Adam Feldman, argued that although it was not unethical to publish the email, it may not have been "nice" to publish it. Mark Ravenhill staged a workshop production of the play featuring Saycon Sengbloh in April 2012. An Octoroon premiered Off-Broadway at Soho Rep on April 23, 2014 and closed on June 8. Directed by Sarah Benson, featuring music by César Alvarez (of The Lisps), choreography by David Neumann, set design 
Title: An Octoroon
Content:  Mimi Lien, and lighting design by Matt Frey. The cast featured Chris Myers as BJJ, in triple roles: the black playwright, George Peyton and M'Closky; Danny Wolohan as Dion Boucicault, Zoë Winters as Dora, and Amber Gray as Zoe. Jacobs-Jenkins himself took on the role of Br'er Rabbit and Captain Ratts. The production was critically acclaimed, winning an Obie Award for best new American play in 2014 (a tie with his previous play, Appropriate). In his review for The New York Times, Ben Brantley called the play “this decade’s most eloquent theatrical statement on race in America today.” The production transferred to Theatre for A New Audience's Polonsky Shakespeare Center in Brooklyn and ran from February 
Title: Tragic mulatto
Content: Haunting of the Octoroon Mistress, a ghost story featuring the institution of octoroon balls. 
Title: Haunting of the Octoroon Mistress
Content:  The haunting of the Octoroon House has a history in the social morals of the 1800s. The term Octoroon is used for people in New Orleans in the 1800s that were 1/8 black, 7/8 white. These octoroons were known as Creoles of Color. They received the best education and were often very wealthy. Relationships between octoroons and elite Creoles of New Orleans was prohibited, but it was not uncommon for young men to have a strong attraction to octoroon women because of their beauty. Octoroon balls were used as a way for rich Creoles to obtain an octoroon mistress. These balls were used as a personal gain for the Creole men and the octoroon mistresses because it entitled the men to keep these beautiful women for their own and the octoroon mistresses would gain, in return, wealth, personal slaves, and the finest living arrangements. Most of the men had families aside from the octoroon mistresses and would often keep their affairs a secret. Because of their different social statuses, octoroons and Creole men were not allowed to marry.

Question: Who is the author of The Octoroon?
Answer: Dion Boucicault.
Dionysius Lardner Boursiquot.