Jeremy O. Harris

Jeremy O. Harris is a Black queer American playwright, actor, and screenwriter, born in 1989, who made a seismic impact on Broadway with Slave Play (2018), which received a record twelve Tony Award nominations for a play and sparked intense debate about race, desire, therapy, and the legacy of slavery; he first wrote the play during his first year at Yale School of Drama. Harris also co-wrote and produced the A24 film Zola (2021), earning an Independent Spirit Award nomination for Best Screenplay, and contributed to Euphoria (2019) as a writer and executive producer. He has spoken about his identity as a queer Black playwright working in a tradition that has rarely centered those identities simultaneously.