No Broadway debut this year was as thrilling as that of Jeremy O. Harris, the young playwright behind the season’s most talked-about, thought-provoking new work. Harris began writing Slave Play — an electric piece about the intersections of race, sexuality, and power examined through three interracial couples — while still in grad school, and in two years it’s blazed a dizzying trajectory from the Yale School of Drama to New York Theatre Workshop and now to the Golden Theatre, where it opened in October.
Between its rave reviews (among them, it made our list of the best shows of the year), Slave Play has also incited passionate responses from audience members. But Harris doesn’t mind if people call his play controversial — so long as they don’t dismiss it. Before 2019 entered the holidays home stretch, Harris spoke to EW about the play’s journey to Broadway and how people have reacted to it.
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