‘Slave Play’ Author Jeremy O. Harris Selected As Yale Drama Series Prize Presiding Playwright
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Jeremy O. Harris, the Tony-nominated author of Slave Play, has been named the presiding playwright for the 2023 Yale Drama Series Prize, one of the theater world’s most prestigious playwriting prizes.
As the presiding playwright, Harris, a Yale alum, becomes a judging panel of one to select an emerging playwright to receive the annual prize.Harris joins the ranks of such previous presiding playwrights as Edward Albee, David Hare, John Guare, Marsha Norman, Nicholas Wright, Ayad Akhtar and, most recently, Paula Vogel.“If only the entire theater world was as democratic, meritocratic, and pluralistic as the Yale Drama Prize,” said Harris in a statement. “There is an entire generation of playwrights who have been fighting to be heard – especially in light of the pause button pushed by the pandemic, and this is our opportunity to thrust a chosen few directly into the global cultural conversation.
These are the next artists who will change the way we think and, when given the chance, move the world into a new era. I can’t wait to start devouring their work.”In its fifteenth year of awarding an emerging playwright, the Yale Drama Series Prize is a preeminent playwriting award in cooperation with Yale University Press and is solely sponsored by the David Charles Horn Foundation.
The Yale Drama Series Prize is awarded annually for a play by an emerging playwright, selected by a judging panel of one—a distinguished playwright of our time.
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