Jordan Harrison is a playwright, screenwriter, and novelist. He was a Pulitzer Prize finalist for Marjorie Prime, which was first produced at the Mark Taper Forum and had its New York premiere at Playwrights Horizons. Jordan's new play, The Antiquities, recently premiered in a joint production with Playwrights Horizons, Vineyard Theatre and Goodman Theatre, and has been nominated for Lucille Lortel, Drama League and Outer Critics Circle Awards for Best New Play. Other plays include Maple and Vine (ACT, Playwrights Horizons), The Amateurs (Vineyard Theatre), Log Cabin (Playwrights Horizons), The Grown-Up (2014 Humana Festival), Doris to Darlene (Playwrights Horizons), Amazons and their Men (Clubbed Thumb), Act A Lady (2006 Humana Festival), Finn in the Underworld (Berkeley Repertory Theatre), Futura (Portland Center Stage and NAATCO), Kid-Simple (Humana Festival), The Museum Play, and a musical, Suprema (O'Neill Music Theatre Conference), written with Daniel Zaitchik. 

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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 Innovative Playwright 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 grateful 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.