Jeremy O. Harris, one of the most promising playwrights of his generation, (Vogue) is a playwright, screenwriter, essayist, and actor. His plays include Slave Play; Daddy ; Xander Xyst, Dragon: 1; and WATER SPORTS ; or insignificant white boys. Jeremy co-wrote A24's film Zola with director Janicza Bravo. Jeremy is a graduate of the Yale School of Drama's MFA Playwriting Program.
This is a demanding play, and one of the things that it demands is the audience's discomfort. But that discomfort is productive -- and in the end, it brings its own satisfactions. It creates a space in which the messiness and rawness of race and power and fantasy and trauma can unspool into a chaotic churn of impressions. --Vox [A] willfully provocative, gaudily transgressive and altogether staggering new play. --New York Times This wildly imaginative work asserts itself with a daringness rarely seen on our stages these days. --Hollywood Reporter There's delicious danger in truly not knowing what might happen next, and Slave Play is all about that collision between what's terrifying and what's tantalizing. --New York Magazine