Jordan Harrison is a playwright, screenwriter, and novelist. He was a Pulitzer Prize finalist for Marjorie Prime, which premiered at the Mark Taper Forum and Playwrights Horizons and will be revived on Broadway this fall in a Second Stage production. Jordan's new play, The Antiquities, recently premiered in a joint production with Playwrights Horizons, the Vineyard Theatre and Goodman Theatre, and was nominated for Lucille Lortel, Drama League, Outer Critics Circle, and Jefferson Awards for Best New Play. Other plays include Maple and Vine (ACT, Playwrights Horizons), The Amateurs (the Vineyard Theatre), Log Cabin (Playwrights Horizons), The Grown-Up (Humana Festival), Doris to Darlene (Playwrights Horizons), Amazons and their Men (Clubbed Thumb), Act A Lady (Humana Festival), Finn in the Underworld (Berkeley Rep), Futura (Portland Center Stage and NAATCO), Kid-Simple (Humana Festival), and The Museum Play.

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Jordan is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Hodder Fellowship, the Horton Foote Prize, the Kesselring Prize, the Laurents/Hatcher Foundation Award, the Roe Green Award, the Heideman Award, a Theater Masters Visionary Award, a Loewe Award for Musical Theater, a Barrymore Award for Best Musical, Jerome and McKnight Fellowships, a NYSCA grant, and a NEA/TCG Residency. A graduate of Stanford University and the Brown MFA program, Jordan is a proud alumnus of New Dramatists.

 

As a screenwriter, Jordan's credits include three seasons as a writer-producer of the Netflix original series "Orange is the New Black." Other TV/film: Netflix's "G.L.O.W.", AMC's "Dispatches From Elsewhere," pilots for TNT, MRC, and Paramount TV, and a feature script for Pixar. A film adaptation of Marjorie Prime, directed by Michael Almereyda, premiered in the Sundance Film Festival, where it won the Alfred P. Sloan Feature Prize. Jordan's debut novel, Miss Archer, is forthcoming from William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins. He is writing the feature adaptation for Sony 3000 Pictures.