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HarperCreates
 

WRITING
 
What I write and why:

I write New York plays with multi-cultural casts, a comic tone, and often a supernatural twist. I want to reconcile ordinary life with all the stuff we can't explain. It ain't Raisin in the Sun.

Currently: Honored with Residency as a Citizen Theatre Playwright for Freedom Train Productions. Commissioned by The American Theater Company to write a short piece as part of The Silver Project.

Working on a musical The Truth About Magic and a new play Stand Away From The Platform Edge.

Plays and Highlights:

Selected Full Length Plays:

  • The Escape Artist's Children (Winner New Professional Theatre Writer's Festival 2009)
  • Urban Rabbit Chronicles (nominated for the Weissberger Award 2008)
  • The Laundry Channel (Juilliard workshop 2004)
  • Wheelchair Pornography (Spectral Sisters Productions 2003)
  • Brink of Life (co-story and lyrics) (Dreamcatcher Repertory Theatre 2001)

Short pieces:
  • This is Now (American Airlines Theatre - 24 Hour Plays on Broadway (2007)
  • First Encounter (Falcon Theatre / L.A. - NBC diversity showcase (2007)
  • Actual Cost (Juilliard /100th Anniversary 2006 - published by The Kenyon Review Online)
  • Iggie Imagines Marriage (Dreamcatcher Repertory Theatre. (2000) John Houseman Studio (1997)
  • Abstract Purple (Baltimore Playwrights Festival 1994)
  • Readings and workshops: New York Stage & Film, Summer Play Festival (NY), New York Theatre Workshop, Tribeca Theatre Festival.

Film:
  • Betty on the Bed (short) (also director, producer and actor) (2006)
  • Undefeatable (martial arts feature) for Polygram Video (co-written with Robert Vassar (1993)

Radio:
  • 2 radio pilots: The Real Deal for Sesame Workshop / WHYY (co-written with Becky Ndosi) (2001)

Training:
  • Juilliard playwriting program

Writing Awards:

Link to the Doollee playwrights database


"Harper... has a good feel for storytelling, structure and dialogue. He creates characters you care about..."

    - Baltimore Sun