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JORDAN HARRISON grew up on Bainbridge Island, near Seattle. His play Marjorie Prime, a 2015 Pulitzer Prize finalist, premiered at Mark Taper Forum/Center Theatre Group and had its New York premiere at Playwrights Horizons. Harrison’s play Maple and Vine premiered in the Humana Festival at Actors Theatre of Louisville and went on to productions at American Conservatory Theater and Playwrights Horizons, among others. Other works include The Grown-Up (Humana Festival); Doris to Darlene, a cautionary valentine (Playwrights Horizons); Amazons and Their Men (Clubbed Thumb); Act a Lady (Humana Festival); Finn in the Underworld (Berkeley Repertory Theatre); Futura (three-way premiere at Portland Center Stage, NAATCO, and the Theatre @ Boston Court); Kid-Simple (Humana Festival); Standing on Ceremony (Minetta Lane Theatre); and The Museum Play. His children’s musical The Flea and the Professor, written with Richard Gray, premiered at the Arden Theatre and won the Barrymore Award for Best Production. Harrison is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Hodder Fellowship, the Horton Foote Prize, 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 Seattle’s Empty Space Theatre. 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 is a writer/producer for the Netflix original series Orange Is the New Black.