ABSTRACT
This chapter features an interview with Jordan Harrison, a Pulitzer Prize finalist for his play Marjorie Prime. Harrison’s other plays include Maple and Vine (Playwrights Horizons; Humana Festival), The Amateurs (Vineyard Theatre), Log Cabin (Playwrights Horizons), The Grown-Up (Humana Festival), Amazons and Their Men (Clubbed Thumb), Doris to Darlene (Playwrights Horizons), Act a Lady (Portland Center Stage; Humana Festival), Finn in the Underworld (Berkeley Rep), Futura (Portland Center Stage; NAATCO), Kid-Simple (Humana Festival), The Museum Play (Washington Ensemble Theatre), and a children’s musical, The Flea and the Professor (Arden Theatre). He was a writer-producer for three seasons of Netflix’s Orange Is the New Black, as well as for HBO’s forthcoming Demimonde, created by J. J. Abrams. Jordan has developed TV series for Sundance and TNT, and his screenplay The House of Love was included on The Hit List of 2017.
