Harrison David Rivers

Harrison David Rivers
Harrison David Rivers is an award-winning playwright, librettist and television writer based in St. Paul, Minnesota. His works include the bandaged place (Roundabout, NYSF), This Bitter Earth (Fleetwood-Jourdain Theatre, White Bear Theatre, Seattle Public, TheatreWorks Hartford, InterAct, The Road, Richmond Triangle Players, Theater Alliance, About Face, Penumbra, NCTC), among others, and the musicals Five Points with Douglas Lyons and Ethan Pakchar, We Shall Someday with Ted Shen and I Put a Spell on You with Nubya Garcia. His television credits include One of Us Is Lying (Peacock), The Nevers (HBO) and Wytches (Amazon). Harrison is a recipient of McKnight, Jerome and Van Lier Fellowships, residencies with the Siena Art Institute, NYTW, Williamstown, Geva and Duke University, and commissions from Roundabout, Transport Group, Penumbra, Geva, La Jolla Playhouse and Minnesota Opera. He sits on the Board of Directors of The Movement Theatre Company and the Playwrights’ Center. MFA: Columbia University.
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the bandaged place
Harrison David Rivers
Full-Length Play, Dramathe bandaged place
Full-Length Play, Drama / 1w, 3m, 1girl(s)
Struggling to recover after an assault, Jonah realizes the only way to heal is by mending the relationships with his family. A brutal and lyrical portrait of the things we hang on to and the price of moving forward, the bandaged place tells of one man’s attempt to free himself from the abuses of his past.
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This Bitter Earth
Harrison David Rivers
Full-Length Play, DramaThis Bitter Earth
Full-Length Play, Drama / 2m
Intimate, romantic and devastating, this gripping new play about a young black writer and his white lover, a Black Lives Matter activist, asks, "What is the real cost of standing on the sidelines?"
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the bandaged place
Harrison David Rivers
Full-Length Play, Dramathe bandaged place
Full-Length Play, Drama / 1w, 3m, 1girl(s)
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This Bitter Earth
Harrison David Rivers
Full-Length Play, DramaThis Bitter Earth
Full-Length Play, Drama / 2m