Slave Play playwright Jeremy O. Harris and New York Theatre Workshop – the Off Broadway company where he developed the acclaimed work – announced today the establishment of two $50,000 commissions for new theatrical works, keeping a pledge the author made when he signed a two-year overall deal with HBO last March.The inaugural Golden & Ruth Harris Commission, named by Harris after his grandparents, will be awarded this year to “two generative artists who are Black womxn: one of whom is an artist who has yet to have an Off Broadway New York production as a generative artist, and one of whom is an artist who made a significant impact early in their artistic lives but has not had adequate support of late.”An array of nominators will make
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