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Aziza Barnes (BLKS) and Jeremy O. Harris (Slave Play), have signed on as writers and executive producers on drama The Vanishing Half, based on Brit Bennett’s bestselling novel, which is in currently in development as a series at HBO. Issa Rae and her Hoorae production banner and Stephanie Allain’s Homegrown Pictures…

Slave Play playwright Jeremy O. Harris will donate a collection of 15 plays by Black playwrights to 53 libraries and community centers across the country, a donation made in lieu of sending Slave Play scripts to Tony Award voters. O. Harris made the announcement last night on Late Night with Seth Meyers, telling the…

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…

Slave Play playwright Jeremy O. Harris has entered a two-year overall deal with HBO, and is developing an untitled pilot as well as returning to the HBO series Euphoria as co-producer. The deal was announced today by Francesca Orsi, executive vice president, HBO Programming. "Jeremy is a singular talent whose…

Broadway playwrights Jeremy O. Harris (Slave Play) and Matthew Lopez (The Inheritance) will be honored by the Human Rights Campaign with each receiving this year’s HRC Equality Award. HRC, the nation’s largest LGBTQ civil rights organization, announced the honors today. The awards will be presented at the 19th Annual…

EXCLUSIVE: Jeremy O. Harris, the playwright behind the acclaimed stage play Slave Play, has signed on to script a film adaptation of Ales Kot’s 2019 graphic novel The New World for Warner Bros and Populace. Released via Image Comics, the comic is described as a genre-bending sci-fi that follows the lives of two lovers…

One of the first hints – an uneasy moment in a remarkable evening full of them – planted in Jeremy O. Harris’ Slave Play suggesting that all is not as it seems (and even what it seems isn’t entirely clear) comes shortly into the opening scenario. A black woman, dressed in Antebellum slave garb, and a white man…

Jeremy O. Harris’ Slave Play landed on various critics’ best-of lists after its Off Broadway production last December, and now the incendiary and brutally funny comedy-drama about race, sexual fetishes and the undying legacy of American slavery, is headed to Broadway. With Jake Gyllenhaal’s Nine Stories production…