Visiting Artist Lecture: Jeremy O. Harris

Photographer: Matthew Leifhelt

Wednesday, December 2, 2020 at 7 p.m.

The Visiting Artists Lecture Series is central to Art & Design and includes weekly lectures, studio visits, and critiques by leading artists, curators, and writers working across a wide spectrum of practices and critical perspectives. Students across all programs are invited and encouraged to attend these public lectures, which take place throughout the academic year. All visiting artist talks are free and open to the public.

To request access info for this lecture please email art.design@mgsa.rutgers.edu.

Jeremy O. Harris is a playwright and actor whose full-length plays include: Slave Play (Broadway, New York Theatre Workshop, NYT Critics Pick, Winner of the 2018 Kennedy Center Rosa Parks Playwriting Award, the Lorraine Hansberry Playwriting Award, and The Lotos Foundation Prize in the Arts and Sciences, nominated for a record 12 Tony Awards); Daddy (Vineyard Theatre/The New Group, Almeida Theatre); Black Exhibition (Bushwick Starr), Xander Xyst, Dragon: 1; and Water Sports; or Insignificant White boys (53rd State Press).

His work has been presented or developed by Pieterspace, JACK, Ars Nova, The New Group, NYTW, Performance Space New York and Playwrights Horizons. In 2018, Jeremy co-wrote A24’s upcoming film Zola with director Janicza Bravo. He is the 11th recipient of the Vineyard Theatre’s Paula Vogel Playwrighting Award, a 2016 MacDowell Colony Fellow, an Orchard Project Greenhouse artist, a resident playwright with Colt Coeur, and is under commission from Lincoln Center Theater and Playwrights Horizons. Jeremy is a graduate of the Yale MFA Playwrighting Program.

Jeremy is currently developing a pilot with A24 for HBO.