Harris Doran

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Harris Doran (born June 2, 1978) is an American independent film writer, director, actor, and producer.

Doran attended the Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School^[1] of Music and Arts and the Performing Arts and went on to study at the Juilliard School.^[2]

Doran started his career as an actor, where he played "The Artful Dodger" in Oliver! at Deaf West Theatre for which he received an Ovation Award^[3] nomination. He played "Claude" on Broadway in the Actors Fund of America concert of Hair.^[4] Doran won a New York Musical Theatre Festival Award for Outstanding Individual Performance for his work in the Off-Broadway play "Love Jerry".^[5] He played "Ham" in the out-of-town try-out of the stage adaptation of Harry Connick Jr's The Happy Elf.^[6] He played "Miles" in the Off-Broadway play "It Must Be Him,^[7] and "Marc" in the world premiere of Mike Reiss's play "I'm Connecticut".^[8]

In 2014, Doran wrote and directed the short film "The Story of Milo & Annie," starring Cathy Moriarty which won Best Narrative Short in the Indie Memphis Film Festival.^[9] He was a writer on Lifetime's "I Love You... But I Lied."^[10]

In 2017, Doran wrote and directed the feature film Beauty Mark, which premiered as a US competition film in the LA Film Festival.^[11] The film was released in 2018 by The Orchard.^[12]

In 2020, Doran directed the podcast production of "Bleeding Love"^[13] and the film "I See You and You See Me" for Queens Theatre which premiered on PBS.^[14] He edited the podcast movie Ghostwriter, starring Kate Mara and Adam Scott.^[15]

In 2022, Doran wrote and directed the short film F^¢k 'Em Right B@¢k,^[16] which premiered at The Sundance Film Festival. He produced the documentary feature film Kokomo City which premiered at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival where the film won the NEXT Innovator Award, the NEXT Audience Award,^[17] and the Panorama Audience Award^[18] at the Berlin International Film Festival.

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• Beauty Mark official site
• Harris Doran at IMDb

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