Poster design by Kyla Arsadjaja, Graphic Design MFA '20.
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Yale Photo Pop Up Lecture Series
presents
Jeremy O. Harris
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Announcing the next guest in the Photography Department's virtual pop up lectures series: Jeremy O. Harris.
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Jeremy O. Harris is the playwright and creator of the most Tony nominated Broadway play ever, Slave Play (Golden Theatre - Broadway, New York Theatre Workshop, NYT Critics Pick, Winner of the 2018 Kennedy Center Rosa Parks Playwriting Award, the Lorraine Hansberry Playwriting Award, and The Lotos Foundation Prize in the Arts and Sciences). Jeremy co-wrote A24’s upcoming film Zola with director Janicza Bravo which premiered at Sundance in 2020. He is currently adapting the sci-fi epic The New World by Ales Kot for Warner Bros. Pictures. In television, Harris is in an overall deal with HBO and is a co-producer on their hit series Euphoria. He was named "The Queer Black Savior the Theatre World Needs" by Out Magazine, is the HRC's 2020 honoree, was included on both THR's 50 Most Powerful LGBTQ Players in Hollywood and TIME Magazine's 2019 100 NEXT lists, is the 11th recipient of the Vineyard Theatre’s Paula Vogel Playwrighting Award, a 2016 MacDowell Colony Fellow, an Orchard Project Greenhouse artist, a resident playwright with Colt Coeur, and is under commission from Lincoln Center Theater and Playwrights Horizons. Jeremy is a graduate of the Yale MFA Playwriting Program and currently resides in NYC.
The School of Art community is invited to attend these online 30-minute events in which Gregory Crewdson, Director of Graduate Studies in Photography, asks each guest a list of simple questions about artistic practice, and the anticipation of an end to the pandemic crisis.
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Previous guests in the Yale Photo Pop Up Lecture Series include Kara Walker, Errol Morris Mike Diamond, Adam Horovitz, Spike Jonze, Jim Jarmusch, Catherine Opie, Sally Mann, Tilda Swinton, Brit Marling, Stephen Shore, Kelly Reichardt, William Eggleston, Hilton Als, Jonathan Lethem, Ben Stiller, Ari Aster, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Cate Blanchett, Kim Gordon, Stan Douglas, Noah Baumbach, Malcolm Gladwell, Robert Eggers, Robert Adams, Wolfgang Tillmans, James Murphy, Natasha Lyonne, Nan Goldin, Wes Anderson, David Fincher, A$AP Rocky, Barry Jenkins, James Laxton, Julianne Moore, Adrianne Lenker, and Jeff Wall.
All conversations are open to the public and take place virtually using Zoom. Attendance is limited to 1,000 participants, so should any event approach that limit, access will be available on a “first come first served” basis. All participants will be placed in a waiting room until the event begins and will be muted upon admittance to the virtual space.
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