Jeremy O. Harris to Head Williamstown’s New Creative Collective
The writer of ‘Slave Play’ will helm a new multidisciplinary programming model at the Berkshires festival, to be previewed this summer for a 2025 launch.
The writer of ‘Slave Play’ will helm a new multidisciplinary programming model at the Berkshires festival, to be previewed this summer for a 2025 launch.
Led initially by playwrights Dominique Morisseau and Jeremy O. Harris, Black affinity nights are proliferating at theatres across the U.S.
Valles will attend a new residency program created by playwright Jeremy O. Harris, who also selected Valles’s play ‘Bathhouse.pptx’ for the prize.
When the L.A. theatre announced a season light on women playwrights, a protest led to change and greater transparency.
The commission, named after the grandparents of artist Jeremy O. Harris, awards $50,000 to each recipient.
The festival will feature more than 1,000 performances, many of them outdoors, from February to September.
The 15-play collection featuring the works of prominent Black playwrights, is being donated to libraries and community centers across the country.
The collaboration, named in honor of Harris’ grandparents, will offer two $50,000 commissions for new theatrical work.
A total of $76,000 from licensing fees and publishing royalties of ‘Slave Play’ will be randomly awarded to 152 writers.
The play is the first to be announced for the Los Angeles company’s 2020-21 season at the Mark Taper Forum.