Aleshea Harris

Aleshea Harris
Aleshea Harris, panelist for Theater Talks: Playwrights, at the Schomburg Library in Harlem, NYC, on January 22, 2018
Aleshea Harris, panelist for Theater Talks: Playwrights, at the Schomburg Library in Harlem, NYC, on January 22, 2018
OccupationPlaywright, writer, spoken word artist
LanguageEnglish
NationalityAmerican
EducationUniversity of Southern Mississippi (BA)
California Institute of the Arts (MFA)
GenreTheatre, drama
Website
www.bagofbeans.net

Aleshea Harris is an American playwright, spoken word artist, author, educator, actor, performer, and screenwriter. Her play Is God Is won the American Playwriting Foundation's Relentless Award in 2016. In 2023, her play On Sugarland was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama.[1]

Her work has been commissioned for the Denver Center for the Performing Arts.[2][3][4][5][6][7] Her plays have toured in France and in Belgium and have been presented at Playfest at the Orlando Shakespeare Theater, the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, the Harriet Tubman Center for Social Justice, California Institute of the Arts, VOXfest at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire, and the Comédie de Saint-Étienne-National Drama Center in France.

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  3. ^ Chow, Andrew R. (23 October 2016). "Aleshea Harris Wins a Playwriting Prize for 'Is God Is'". The New York Times – via NYTimes.com.
  4. ^ "Theater Talks: Playwrights Aleshea Harris & Jackie Sibblies Drury". The New York Public Library.
  5. ^ "Meet the Playwrights : Aleshea Harris". www.seattlerep.org.
  6. ^ "Aleshea Harris Receives American Playwriting Foundation's Relentless Award". 28 March 2017.
  7. ^ "Aleshea Harris News". www.broadwayworld.com.