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 was recently revived on Broadway by Second Stage Theater. Jordan's newest play, The Antiquities, premiered jointly at Playwrights Horizons, Vineyard Theatre, and Goodman Theatre, and was nominated for Lucille Lortel, Drama League, Outer Critics, and Jefferson Awards for Best New Play. Other plays include Maple and Vine (Playwrights Horizons), The Amateurs (Vineyard Theatre), Log Cabin (Playwrights Horizons), Amazons and Their Men (Clubbed Thumb), The Grown-Up (Humana Festival), Act A Lady (Humana Festival), Doris to Darlene (Playwrights Horizons), Finn in the Underworld (Berkeley Rep), Futura (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, 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, will be published in Jan. 2027 by Morrow/HarperCollins. He is writing the feature adaptation for Sony 3000 Pictures.