Broadway Debuts for PlayPenn Playwrights Jordan Harrison and Samuel D. Hunter
- PlayPenn
- Aug 14
- 2 min read
Updated: 2 days ago
PlayPenn is proud to share that two PlayPenn playwrights will have their Broadway debuts in the upcoming 2025–2026 theatre season.
Pulitzer Prize finalist Jordan Harrison’s Marjorie Prime begins performances on November 20, produced by Second Stage.
Jordan’s play Act a Lady was developed at PlayPenn’s very first New Play Development Conference in 2005.
About Marjorie Prime:
What would you say to someone you lost, if you could see them again? What if they’re a better listener now than when they were alive? Jordan Harrison reinvents the family drama in his richly spare, wryly funny, and powerful Marjorie Prime, directed by Tony Award® nominee Anne Kauffman (Mary Jane). A heart-achingly beautiful rumination on aging and artificial intelligence, memory and mortality, love and legacy, Marjorie Prime examines the blurred line between a life lived and a life remembered.
Samuel’ D. Hunter's new play Little Bear Ridge Road makes its Broadway premiere with performances starting October 7.
Samuel’s play The Whale was developed at PlayPenn in 2010 and later adapted into an Academy Award–winning film directed by Darren Aronofsky, produced by A24, and starring Brendan Fraser, Sadie Sink, and Hong Chau. Fraser’s portrayal of Charlie earned him the Oscar for Best Actor.
About Little Bear Ridge Road:
Four-time Emmy® and two-time Tony Award® winner Laurie Metcalf returns to Broadway opposite Tony Award® nominee Micah Stock in Little Bear Ridge Road, the wry and piercing new play by Samuel D. Hunter (The Whale) directed by two-time Tony Award® winning director Joe Mantello. This production marks Hunter’s Broadway debut and Metcalf and Mantello’s seventh collaboration.
Set on the remote edge of a small Idaho town, Little Bear Ridge Road centers on a razor-tongued aunt and her long-estranged nephew who find themselves suddenly back in each other’s lives—two lonely souls with a crumbling house to sell and a tangled history to unravel. Bitingly funny and quietly explosive, Little Bear Ridge Road lays bare our messy, human need to reach across voids for one another, even when it shakes us to the bone.
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