Jeremy O Harris Chosen as Next Presiding Playwright for 2023 Yale Drama Series Prize

5/12/2022 11:03am

The 2023 Yale Drama Series Prize  has chosen Jeremy O Harris, the Yale alum and Tony-nominated author of "Slave Play," as the presiding playwright for its 15th anniversary year. As his first order of business, Harris is assembling an international group of readers to help evaluate submissions as part of a larger effort to infuse the process with a more global point-of-view. Now celebrating its fifteenth year of awarding an emerging playwright, the Yale Drama Series Prize is a playwriting award in cooperation with Yale University Press and is solely sponsored by the David Charles Horn Foundation. The Yale Drama Series Prize is awarded annually for a play by an emerging playwright, selected by a judging panel of one—a distinguished playwright of our time. The winner receives the David Charles Horn Prize of $10,000, as well as publication of the winning play by Yale University Press and a staged reading. The Yale Drama Series is an annual international open submission competition for emerging playwrights who are invited to submit original, unpublished, full-length, English language plays for consideration. All entries are read blindly. Press contact: DKC/O&M (212/695-7400)...