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name: "Jordan Harrison"
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born: "7 June 1977"
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# Jordan Harrison

Writer. Born 7 June 1977 in Bainbridge Island, Washington.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 7 June 1977, Bainbridge Island, Washington

## Biography

Jordan Harrison is an American playwright and screenwriter. He grew up on Bainbridge Island, Washington, and holds a BA from Stanford University (1999) and an MFA from Brown University, where he studied with Paula Vogel.

His play *Marjorie Prime* premiered at the Mark Taper Forum in 2014 and was a finalist for the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Drama; a film adaptation followed in 2017. He wrote for three seasons of the Netflix series *Orange Is the New Black* (2015–2017) as writer-producer and created the AMC series *Dispatches from Elsewhere* (2020).

Harrison has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Hodder Fellowship, the Kesselring Prize and the Horton Foote Prize. He is an alumnus of New Dramatists and lives in Brooklyn, New York.

*Sources: jordanharrison.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Orange Is the New Black* (2013), Fi1m 79, Writer — [page](https://film.one/tv/orange-is-the-new-black.md)

## Also known for

- *Marjorie Prime* (2017), Theatre Play, Writer
- *Dispatches from Elsewhere* (2020), Writer

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