JORDAN HARRISON for Marjorie Prime

Playwright Jordan Harrison was already imagining what might happen if technology could bring our loved ones back for another conversation long before artificial intelligence became everyone's favorite dinner-party debate. Born in 1977, Harrison has built a career exploring the strange, funny, and sometimes unsettling territory where human relationships collide with extraordinary circumstances. His Pulitzer Prize-finalist play Marjorie Prime premiered in 2014, envisioning lifelike digital companions programmed to recreate people from our memories, a concept that feels less like science fiction with every passing year. Harrison has also written for acclaimed television series including Orange Is the New Black, but his theatrical work reveals a particular fascination with how stories shape our identities. In a town like Key West, where personal legends are practically an art form, Harrison's exploration of memory raises a wonderfully unsettling possibility: What if the stories we tell about ourselves eventually become more powerful than the truth?