Aleshea Harris
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Aleshea Harris is an American playwright, filmmaker, and screenwriter. Her play Is God Is won the American Playwriting Foundation's Relentless Award in 2016 and was adapted into a film—which she direc
Harris in 2018
On Sugarland
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On Sugarland is a 2022 American play by Aleshea Harris. The play is a loose adaptation of Sophocles's Greek tragedies Philoctetes and Antigone, and centers a teenage girl calling on her matriarchal an
Aleshea Harris
…Is God Is won the American Playwriting Foundation's Relentless Award in 2016 and was adapted into a film—which she directed—in 2026. In 2023, her play On Sugarland was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Her work has been commissioned for the Denver Center for the Performing Arts. Her plays have toured…
2022 Off-Broadway production poster