Tag: Slave Play
Playwright Jeremy O. Harris is “the queer black savior the theater world needs”
Jeremy O. Harris
Playwright and actor
In December 2018, Harris’ play “Slave Play” debuted at the New York Theatre Workshop, where it received rave reviews. The play explores themes of race, sex, and sexuality on a slave plantation in the Antebellum South.
Also in 2018, he won the Paula Vogel Playwriting Award, the Rosa Parks Playwriting Award, the Lorraine Hansberry Playwriting Award, and the Lotos Foundation Prize, and he was deemed by Out magazine “the queer black savior the theater world needs.”
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