Jordan Harrison grew up on Bainbridge Island, near Seattle. His play Maple and Vine premiered in the Humana Festival at Actors Theatre of Louisville and went on to productions at American Conservatory Theater, Playwrights Horizons and City Theatre, among others. Harrison’s other Humana Festival premieres include last season’s The Grown-Up, Act a Lady and Kid-Simple. Other works include Doris to Darlene, a cautionary valentine (Playwrights Horizons), Amazons and Their Men (Clubbed Thumb), Finn in the Underworld (Berkeley Repertory Theatre), Futura (three-way premiere at Portland Center Stage, NAATCO and the Theatre @ Boston Court) and The Museum Play. His children’s musical The Flea and the Professor premiered at the Arden Theatre and won the Barrymore Award for Best Production; his grown-up musical Suprema was workshopped at the O’Neill’s National Music Theater Conference. Harrison is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Hodder Fellowship, the Kesselring Prize, the Roe Green Award from Cleveland Play House, the Heideman Award, the Loewe Award for Musical Theater, Jerome and McKnight Fellowships, a NYSCA grant and a NEA/TCG residency with the Empty Space. A graduate of Stanford University and the Brown MFA program, Harrison is an alumnus of New Dramatists. He is an Affiliated Artist with Clubbed Thumb, the Civilians and the Playwrights’ Center. Harrison currently writes for the Netflix original series Orange Is the New Black, and is adapting his play Maple and Vine for SundanceTV.
