Jordan Harrison biography

Jordan Harrison

At Writers Theatre: Marjorie Prime

Jordan Harrison’s play, Marjorie Prime (2015 Pulitzer Prize finalist), premiered at the Mark Taper Forum and will be produced Off-Broadway this fall at Playwrights Horizons. His play Maple and Vine premiered in the Humana Festival at Actors Theatre of Louisville and went on to productions at American Conservatory Theater, Next Theatre, and Playwrights Horizons, among others. Other Humana Festival premieres include The Grown-Up, Act a Lady, and Kid-Simple (produced in Chicago at American Theater Company). Other plays include Doris to Darlene (Playwrights Horizons), Amazons and Their Men (Clubbed Thumb), Finn in the Underworld (Berkeley Repertory Theatre), Futura (Portland Center Stage), and The Museum Play. His children’s musical, The Flea and the Professor, commissioned and produced by Arden Theatre Company, won the Barrymore Award for Best Production. Harrison is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Hodder Fellowship, the Kesselring Prize, the Roe Green Award from Cleveland Play House, the Heideman Award, Jerome and McKnight Fellowships, a NYSCA grant, and a NEA/TCG residency. A graduate of the Brown University M.F.A. program, Harrison is an alumnus of New Dramatists. Harrison currently writes for the Netflix original series, Orange is the New Black. jordanharrison.org

[Bio as of August 2015]