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DIRECTOR | WRITER | PRODUCER | EDITOR

KOKOMO CITY (documentary feature film) producer | technical editor (2023)

  • Directed by D. Smith
  • Produced by D. Smith, Harris Doran, Bill Butler
  • Executive Produced by Stacy Barthe, William Melillo, Rishi Rajani, Lena Waithe
  • World Premiere in the 2023 Sundance Film Festival
  • International Premiere in the 2023 Berlin Film Festival | Berlinale Panorama
  • Distributed by Magnolia Pictures | In Theaters Summer 2023
  • WINNER: Sundance Film Festival NEXT Innovator Award
  • WINNER: Sundance Film Festival Audience Award
  • WINNER: Berlinale Panorama Audience Award


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

  • Starring DDm,  Kara Young (Tony Nomination Clyde's) and Catherine Curtin
  • Produced by Doris Casap, Harris Doran, James A. Burkhalter, Haley Geffen
  • Sundance Film Festival 2022 premiere (Grand Jury Prize nomination)
  • WINNER: Aspen Shortsfest Jury Prize Best Comedy (Oscar qualifying)
  • WINNER: Tallgrass Film Festival Jury Prize Best Ensemble Cast
  • WINNER: Indie Memphis Film Festival Audience Award  Narrative Short 
  • WINNER: Florida Film Festival Special Jury Award for "Comedic Storytelling"
  • WINNER: Milwaukee Film Festival Shorts Jury Award Special Mention
  • WINNER: deadCenter Film Festival Best Pride Short
  • WINNER: Over-the-Rhine Film Festival Best Narrative Short
  • WINNER: Black Alphabet Film Festival Audience Award Best Short Film


BETROTHED (play) director (2022)

  • starring Tim Daly, Amy Hargreaves, David Hull, and Louisa Jacobson 
  • A new play by Mario Correa 
  • The 24 Hour Plays on Broadway (Town Hall)


WE, THE INNUMERABLE (opera) director (2022)

  • Music by Niloufar Nourbakhsh, Libretto by Lisa Flanagan 
  • Presented by National Sawdust and Center for Contemporary Opera


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

  • Created for Queens Theatre
  • Distributed by PBS/Thirteen/WNET


FIDELITY (play) director (2021)

  • Starring Julia Chan, Amy Hargreaves, Russell G. Jones
  • A new play by Michael Mitnick
  • The 24 Hour Plays Gala


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


WHITE HORSE TAVERN (pilot)  production designer (2021)

  • Written and directed by Seth Green
  • Stoopid Buddy Stoodios


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
  • Stage version developed at Goodspeed, National Alliance Music Theatre, multiple productions 
  • iTunes Top US Performing Arts Podcast


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


WASP WOMAN (stage musical) director | bookwriter | lyricist (2020)

  • Staged reading at the Professional Conservatory of Musical Theatre at NYFA 


NEW YORK TRANSGENDER ADVOCACY GROUP (political video series) director | producer | editor (2018)

  • “Know Your Rights” campaign


ULTRA-MILLIONAIRE’S TAX (political video) producer (2018)

  • Starring Abigail Disney
  • Creative Resistance 


BEAUTY MARK (narrative feature film) 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


BROADWAY BLUE WAVE FOR NEW YORK (political concert) writer | producer (2017)

  • Directed by Tony Award winner Rachel Chavkin
  • starring Edie Falco, Cynthia Nixon, Daphne Rubin-Vega, Laura Benanti, MJ Rodriguez, et al.


THE MUTINEER (narrative feature film) associate producer (2017)


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

  • Lifetime TV 


THIS MOVIE WILL GET INTO SUNDANCE (narrative/doc feature film) writer | director | producer | editor (2015)

  • writer/director debut feature film


HAPPY LUCKY GOLDEN TOFU PANDA DRAGON GOOD TIME FUN FUN SHOW (stage show) director (2015)

  • Co-Directed with Carrie Preston
  • Written and performed by Kate Rigg & Lyris Hung 
  • La MaMa ETC


PHOTO OP (narrative short film) producer (2015)

  • Starring Randy Harrison
  • Directed by Dave Solomon
  • WINNER: SENE Film Music & Art Festival: Best LGBT Short Film


RE-ENACT (narrative TV show) series writer (2015)

  • TWIST


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

  • Starring Cathy Moriarty, Alysia Reiner, Marsha Stephanie Blake
  • WINNER: Indie Memphis Film Festival: Best Short
  • writer/director debut short film


SALVAGE (stage musical) director | bookwriter | lyricist (2009)

  • Starring Bryce Ryness, Rebecca Naomi Jones, Tituss Burgess
  • Staged Reading at New World Stages

ADDITIONAL WRITING

SCREENPLAYS/TELEPLAYS

  • ATTICUS BROWN IS STILL HERE (narrative feature) Nantucket Screenwriters Colony, Sundance (second round), Tribeca (finalist), Hamptons (finalist) Sloan Grant
  • COG (narrative feature) Academy Nicholl Fellowship (quarterfinalist) 
  • FOUR GAYS AND A BABY (narrative feature) Outfest Screenwriting Lab (finalist), Sundance Lab (second round)
  • IN THE WAKE (narrative feature) Austin Film Festival screenwriting competition (semifinalist) 
  • MAZEL BITCH (pilot) co-writer Elizabeth Rohrbaugh, Sundance Episodic Lab (second round)
  • REVELATIONISTS (episodic spec)
  • SECOND ACTS (narrative feature)
  • TONE-DEAF (narrative feature) Quarterfinalist CineStory, ScreenCraft
  • AN UNOFFICIAL OF MICE & MEN REMAKE (narrative feature)
  • WASP WOMAN (narrative feature) film adaptation of the stage musical


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


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 © 2023 Harris Doran

  • Clips/Trailers
  • Kokomo City
  • F^¢k '€m R!ght B@¢k
  • Beauty Mark
  • The Story of Milo & Annie
  • This Movie Will Sundance
  • I See You and You See Me
  • The Ivanka Diaries
  • Ghostwriter
  • Bleeding Love
  • we the innumerable
  • 24 Hour Plays Broadway
  • The 24 Hour Plays Gala
  • Broadway Blue Wave For NY
  • I Love You... But I Lied
  • photo op
  • NY Trans Advocacy Group
  • Film/TV In Development
  • Stage Projects In Dev