Marjorie Prime by Jordan Harrison

In the unforgettable Marjorie Prime, it’s the age of artificial intelligence, and 85-year-old Marjorie – a jumble of disparate, fading memories – has a handsome new companion who’s programmed to feed the story of her life back to her.  What would we remember and what would we forget if given the chance?  In this richly spare, wondrous play, Marjorie Prime explores the mysteries of human identity and the limits – if any – of what technology can replace.

Bio:

Jordan Harrison was a Pulitzer Prize finalist for his play Marjorie Prime, which premiered at the Mark Taper Forum and had its New York premiere at Playwrights Horizons. A film adaptation by Michael Almereyda debuted at the Sundance Film Festival. Jordan’s other plays include Maple and Vine (Playwrights Horizons, Humana Festival), The Amateurs (Vineyard Theatre), Log Cabin(Playwrights Horizons), The Grown-Up (Humana Festival), Amazons and their Men (Clubbed Thumb), Doris to Darlene (Playwrights Horizons), Act a Lady (Portland Center Stage), Finn in the Underworld (Berkeley Repertory Theatre), Futura (NAATCO), and Kid-Simple (Humana Festival). Jordan is the recipient of the Horton Foote Prize for Best American Play, Guggenheim and Hodder Fellowships, the Kesselring Prize, the Heideman Award, and a NEA/TCG Residency.

Jordan was a writer-producer for three seasons of Netflix’s “Orange is the New Black” as well as for AMC’s “Dispatches from Elsewhere,”  Netflix’s “GLOW,” and HBO’s forthcoming “Demimonde.” Jordan has developed television series for Sundance TV, TNT, and Paramount TV. His first screenplay, “The House of Love,” was included on The Hit List. A graduate of Stanford and the Brown MFA program, Jordan is an alumnus of New Dramatists. A print collection of his work, Maple & Vine and Other Plays, is forthcoming from TCG. www.jordanharrison.org