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WRITER.DIRECTOR.PRODUCER.EDITOR

FILM

F^¢K '€M R!GHT B@¢K (narrative short) writer.director.producer.editor (2022)

Starring DDm,  Kara Young (Tony Nomination Clyde's) and Catherine Curtin

Produced with Doris Casap of Mother Films

Sundance Film Festival 2022 premiere

NOMINATED: Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Prize

WINNER: Aspen Shortsfest Jury Prize Best Comedy (Oscar qualifying)

WINNER: Florida Film Festival Special Jury Award for "Comedic Storytelling"


GHOSTWRITER (podcast movie) editor (2021)

Starring Kate Mara and Adam Scott

C13Features and Best Case Studios

Directed by Kimberly Senior, written by Alix Sobler

#1 Fiction Podcast/Top 10 of all Podcasts on Apple Podcasts


I SEE YOU AND YOU SEE ME (film/theatre hybrid) writer.director.producer.editor (2021)

Created for Queens Theatre

Distributed by PBS/Thirteen/WNET


BEAUTY MARK (narrative feature) writer.director.producer.editor (2017)

Starring Auden Thornton, Catherine Curtin, Laura Bell Bundy, Jeff Kober, Deirdre Lovejoy, Madison Iseman

WINNER: LOS ANGELES FILM FESTIVAL: Special Jury Prize “Breakout Performance,” NOMINATED: Best U.S. Fiction Film; WINNER: WOODSTOCK FILM FESTIVAL: Best Ultra Indie Film Award; WINNER: AUSTIN FILM FESTIVAL: Audience Award Best Narrative Feature; WINNER: SAN LUIS OBISPO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL: Best Narrative Feature Film; WINNER: SENE FILM, MUSIC & ART FESTIVAL: Best Feature Film & Best Actress

SHORTLISTED: FILM INDEPENDENT SPIRIT AWARDS: Someone To Watch Award 

Distributed by The Orchard


THE MUTINEER (narrative feature) associate producer (2017)


PHOTO OP (narrative short) producer (2015)

Starring Randy Harrison; Directed by Dave Solomon

WINNER: SENE Film Music & Art Festival: Best LGBT Short Film


THIS MOVIE WILL GET INTO SUNDANCE (narrative/doc hybrid) writer.director.producer.editor (2015)


THE STORY OF MILO & ANNIE (narrative short) writer.director.producer (2014)

Starring Cathy Moriarty, Alysia Reiner, Marsha Stephanie Blake

WINNER: Indie Memphis Film Festival: Best Short


EPISODIC

WHITE HORSE TAVERN (TV pilot) production designer (2022) 

Created by and starring Seth Green


BLEEDING LOVE (Podcast Musical) lyricist.director.producer.editor (2020)

Starring Sarah Stiles, Annie Golden, Rebecca Naomi Jones, Marc Kudisch, Taylor Trensch, Tony Vincent

Broadway Podcast Network, produced by Kent Nicholson, Katie Rosin, Steve Saporito

iTunes Top US Performing Arts Podcast


THE IVANKA DIARIES (narrative webseries) writer.director.producer.editor (2020)


I LOVE YOU… BUT I LIED (narrative) series writer, Lifetime TV (2016)


RE-ENACT (narrative) series writer, TWIST  (2015)

STAGE

FIDELITY (play) director (2021)

Starring Julia Chan, Amy Hargreaves, Russell G. Jones

Written by Michael Mitnick

24 Hour Plays


BLEEDING LOVE (Stage Musical) lyricist

Stage version developed at Goodspeed, National Alliance Music Theatre, multiple productions


HAPPY LUCKY GOLDEN TOFU PANDA DRAGON GOOD TIME FUN FUN SHOW (Stage Show) 

Co-Directed with Carrie Preston

Written and performed by Kate Rigg & Lyris Hung 

La MaMa ETC


BROADWAY BLUE WAVE FOR NEW YORK (Political Concert) writer.producer

Directed by Tony Award winner Rachel Chavkin

starring Edie Falco, Cynthia Nixon, Daphne Rubin-Vega, Laura Benanti, MJ Rodriguez, et al.


WASP WOMAN (Stage Musical), director.bookwriter.lyricist

Staged reading at the Professional Conservatory of Musical Theatre at NYFA 


SALVAGE (Stage Musical) director.book writer.lyricist

Staged Reading at New World Stages


WE THE INNUMERABLE (Opera, in development), stage director

Composed by Niloufar Nourbakhsh

SONGWRITING

FALLING AWAY (lyrics) lead single from Marion Raven's album "Set Me Free" 

Co-written with Marion Raven, Freddy Wexler, Arthur Lafrentz Bacon

Top 10 European Billboards

PROMO/INFO VIDEOS

NEW YORK TRANSGENDER ADVOCACY GROUP (political video series) writer.director.producer.editor

“Know Your Rights” campaign


ULTRA-MILLIONAIRE’S TAX (political video) producer

Starring Abigail Disney, Creative Resistance 


WELCOME BACK (promo campaign) writer.director.producer.editor

Queens Theatre


I SEE YOU AND YOU SEE ME (promo featurette) writer.director.producer.editor

Queens Theatre

ADDITIONAL FILM/TV WRITING

SECOND ACTS (narrative feature)

ATTICUS BROWN IS STILL HERE (narrative feature)

Nantucket Screenwriters Colony, Sundance (second round), Tribeca (finalist), Hamptons (finalist) Sloan Grant

MAZEL BITCH (Pilot), co-writer Elizabeth Rohrbaugh, Sundance Episodic Lab (second round)

IN THE WAKE (Screenplay), Austin Film Festival screenwriting competition semifinalist 

COG (screenplay), Academy Nicholl Fellowship quarterfinalist 

TONE-DEAF (screenplay) Quarterfinalist CineStory, ScreenCraft

WASP WOMAN (screenplay) film adaptation of the stage musical

AN UNOFFICIAL OF MICE & MEN REMAKE (screenplay)

REVELATIONISTS (episodic spec)

TEACHING

  • Columbia University, MFA Film (New York, NY), Adjunct Professor, Directing the Actor
  • Atlantic Theater Company Acting School (New York, NY), Filmmaking
  • New York Film Academy (New York, NY), First Year Acting, Improvisation, Acting for Film & Television 
  • Brooklyn Opera Works (Brooklyn, NY),  acting coach for opera singers
  • The School of The New York Times (New York, NY), Basics of Filmmaking
  • Point Park University, Acting Master Class
  • Film Independent (Los Angeles, CA), Future Filmmaker Mentorship Program
  • Private Performance Coach (New York, NY) Coaching for actors and politicians ( 20+ years)

JURIES

  • Woodstock Film Festival
  • aGLIFF (All Genders, Lifestyles, and Identities Film Festival)
  • New York Musical Theatre Festival

COMMITTEES

  • Nantucket Screenwriters Colony Alumni Committee 

EDUCATION

  • The Juilliard School, Drama Division
  • Upright Citizens Brigade, Improvisation 
  • BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop
  • Fiorello H. La Guardia High School of Music & Art and The Performing Arts, Drama Department

Copyright © 2022 Harris Doran

  • F^¢k '€m R!ght B@¢k
  • Beauty Mark
  • Ghostwriter
  • I See You and You See Me
  • The Ivanka Diaries
  • The Story of Milo & Annie
  • Bleeding Love
  • we the innumerable
  • I Love You... But I Lied
  • Broadway Blue Wave For NY
  • photo op
  • This Movie Will Sundance
  • NY Trans Advocacy Group
  • Film/TV In Development
  • Stage Projects In Dev