Jeremy O. Harris
Jeremy O. Harris Jeremy O. Harris (born c. 1989)[1] is an American playwright, actor, and philanthropist, known for his plays "Daddy" and Slave Play.[2][3] The latter received 12 nominations at the 74th Tony Awards, breaking the record previously set by the 2018 revival of Angels in America for most nominations for a non-musical play.[4] Harris was the winner of the 2018 Paula Vogel Playwriting Award, given by the Vineyard Theatre in New York City.[5] A profile in the New York Times said that Harris's "ability to render subconscious trauma into provocative theatrical expression, as potentially unsettling as entertaining, has earned him a lot of attention in a very short time."[2] Out called him "the queer black savior the theater world needs." Harris grew up in a military family, moving often before settling in Martinsville, Virginia. He has since lived in Chicago, Los Angeles, and New York.[7] He attended the Carlisle School in Martinsville, Virgini