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Jeremy O. Harris

Jeremy O. Harris

Award-winning Playwright, "Slave Play" Producer Activist

Jeremy O. Harris is the playwright and creator of the most Tony-nominated Broadway play ever, Slave Play, and the co-producer of the hit HBO series, Euphoria. Slave Play focuses on three mixed-race couples at a sex therapy retreat on an old Virginia plantation analyzing their problems with a fourth mixed-race couple of female Yale therapists. Comical, dramatic, and excruciating at times, the play covers territory Broadway has never explored before. The show was an NYT Critics Pick, Winner of the 2018 Kennedy Center Rosa Parks Playwriting Award, the Lorraine Hansberry Playwriting Award, and The Lotos Foundation Prize in the Arts ...

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Jeremy O. Harris is the playwright and creator of the most Tony-nominated Broadway play ever, Slave Play, and the co-producer of the hit HBO series, Euphoria. Slave Play focuses on three mixed-race couples at a sex therapy retreat on an old Virginia plantation analyzing their problems with a fourth mixed-race couple of female Yale therapists. Comical, dramatic, and excruciating at times, the play covers territory Broadway has never explored before. The show was an NYT Critics Pick, Winner of the 2018 Kennedy Center Rosa Parks Playwriting Award, the Lorraine Hansberry Playwriting Award, and The Lotos Foundation Prize in the Arts and Sciences. Just like his lauded works, the boundary-pushing playwright is fearless in tackling critical issues such as race, sexuality, inclusion, and representation. Jeremy speaks on the power and importance of genuine storytelling – no matter how “controversial” it may be to others.

He was named “The Queer Black Savior the Theatre World Needs” by Out Magazine, is the HRC’s 2020 honoree, was included on both The Hollywood Reporter’s “50 Most Powerful LGBTQ Players in Hollywood” and TIME Magazine’s “2019 100 NEXT” lists, is the 11th recipient of the Vineyard Theatre’s Paula Vogel Playwrighting Award, a 2016 MacDowell Colony Fellow, an Orchard Project Greenhouse artist, a resident playwright with Colt Coeur, and is under commission from Lincoln Center Theater and Playwrights Horizons.

Jeremy co-wrote A24’s upcoming film Zola with director Janicza Bravo which premiered at Sundance in 2020. He is currently adapting the sci-fi epic The New World by Ales Kot for Warner Bros. Pictures. In television, Harris is in an overall deal with HBO and is a co-producer on their hit series Euphoria.

Jeremy is a graduate of the Yale MFA Playwrighting Program and currently resides in NYC.

 

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