Exclusive: Jeremy O. Harris, Tony-nominated author slave game, Nominated Yale Drama Series Playwright Award 2023, one of the most prestigious playwrights in the theatrical world. When Harris playwright chairman Yale Almour becomes a member of the jury who selects a new playwright to receive the annual award.
Harris joins the ranks of well-known playwrights such as Edward Albee, David Hare, John Guar, Marsha Norman, Nicolas Wright, Ayad Akhtar and finally Paula Vogel.
“If only the entire theater world was as democratic, meritocratic and pluralistic as the Yale Drama Award,” Harris said in a statement. “There is an entire generation of playwrights who have struggled to listen, especially in the context of a pandemic caused by the pandemic, and this is our opportunity to engage a select few directly in the global cultural discourse. These are the next artists who will change the world. our way of thinking and, when allowed, they will take the world into a new era. I can’t wait to swallow your case. “
In the fifteenth year for the Outstanding Drama Award, the Yale Drama Series Award is a Distinguished Drama Award in association with Yale University Press and is sponsored by the David Charles Horn Foundation. The Yale Drama Series Award is awarded annually to a play selected by the jury of an emerging playwright for the most distinguished playwright of our time. The winner receives the $ 1,000 Charles Horn Award, plus publication of the winning entry and a staged reading by Yale University Press.
“I am very happy that Jeremy O. Harris, one of the greatest iconoclasts of our time, is now joining the ranks of many outstanding playwrights who previously held this role,” said Francine Horn, president of the David David Foundation. Charles Horn. . “Jeremy has already advanced the form of theatrical art with his works and now his unique vision will help shape the future.
The Yale Drama Series is an annual international open competition for outstanding playwrights who are invited to submit original, unpublished and unabridged works in English. All logs are read blindly.
Harris received his MFA in 2019 from the Yale Playwrights Program, where he wrote a Tony Award nominee. slave game. slave game Originally set at Yale in October 2017, before debuting on Broadway at the August Wilson Theater from October 2019 to January 2020 and November 2021 to January 2022. His new play, FatherIt just premiered at the Almeida Theater in London.
Source: Deadline
