Jeremy O. Harris

Jeremy O. Harris is the playwright and creator of the most Tony-nominated Broadway play ever, Slave Play (Golden Theatre - Broadway, New York Theatre Workshop, 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). His play Daddy opened to great acclaim at the Almeida Theatre in London in March 2022, marking the UK debut of the play.

For film, Jeremy co-wrote A24’s critically-acclaimed indie feature Zola alongside director Janicza Bravo, which won two 2022 Independent Spirit Awards. Jeremy has an overall deal with HBO, and his television credits include their hit series Euphoria and upcoming TV adaptation of Irma Vep. He is also currently co-creating and will co-showrun an adaptation of Brit Bennett’s best-selling novel, The Vanishing Half, with Aziza Barnes at HBO.

As an actor, Jeremy recently appeared on HBO Max’s Gossip Girl reimagining and in season two of Netflix’s Emily in Paris. He was named “The Queer Black Savior the Theatre World Needs” by Out Magazine, is a Human Rights Campaign’s 2020 honoree, was included on both THR’s 50 Most Powerful LGBTQ Players in Hollywood and TIME Magazine’s 2019 100 NEXT lists. As a playwright, he 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 The Public Theater. His full-length plays also include: Xander Xyst, Dragon: 1; and WATER SPORTS; or insignificant white boys. His work has been presented or developed by Pieter Performance Space, JACK, Ars Nova, The New Group, New York Theatre Workshop, and Performance Space New York. He is a graduate of the Yale MFA Playwriting Program.