Jordan Harrison

Jordan Harrison grew up in Seattle and currently lives in Brooklyn. He is a 2009 Guggenheim Fellow and a 2009-2010 Hodder Fellow at Princeton University. Jordan’s plays include, Doris to Darlene (Playwrights Horizons), Act a Lady (2006 Humana Festival at Actors Theatre of Louisville, Portland Center Stage), Finn in the Underworld (Berkeley Rep), Amazons and Their Men (Clubbed Thumb), Kid-Simple (2004 Humana Festival, American Theater Company, SPF), The Museum Play (Washington Ensemble Theatre), Futura (forthcoming at NAATCO, Portland Center Stage, and Theatre @ Boston Court), The Flea and the Professor (forthcoming at Arden Theatre Company), and Maple and Vine. He has received commissions from Arden Theatre Company, Ars Nova, Berkeley Rep/Actors Theatre of Louisville, Cypress Films, the Guthrie Theater/Children’s Theatre Company, Playwrights Horizons, and South Coast Rep. Jordan is the recipient of the 2008 Kesselring Fellowship, the Frederick Loewe Award through New Dramatists, a Theater Masters’ Innovative Playwright Award, the Heideman Award, Jerome and McKnight Fellowships from The Playwrights’ Center, and a NEA/TCG Playwright-in-Residence Grant with The Empty Space Theatre. A graduate of the Brown University MFA Creative Writing program, he is a resident playwright at New Dramatists. With Sylvan Oswald, he edits Play A Journal of Plays, a quasi-annual publication devoted to the life of plays on the page.