Jeremy O Harris’ Yell at the Majestic with Lakeith Stanfield?

Apologies if posted already (certainly couldn’t find anything), but walking past the Majestic yesterday there was posters up for:

Jeremy O Harris

YELL: A Documentary on My Time Here

starring Lakeith Stanfield, Taraji P. Henson, Alan Cumming, Eva Noblezada and others.



Anyone heard anything about this?

Oh here we go again. This is a (not very good) play that JOH wrote during their time in the MFA program at Yale, which was fully funded and they paid zero dollars. Could be a reading of some sort? Who knows, but the script is essentially JOH’s revenge fantasy on the dean and a member of faculty who disagreed with JOH during a rehearsal process for Slave Play it’s early stages at the school. The topic they disagreed on was related to sexual assault. One scene had the dean eating feces, no joke.

He’s become like a black Truman Capote. Only has one or two substantial works and is becoming more known for being a social nuisance than a credible writer. There are SO many people in the community that I’ve talked to who absolutely cannot stand him and believe he is a sellout.

Was attempting to add this to my previous post but my god, this site is glitchy.


JOH was not the first and won’t be the last student to express concerns about their experience in higher education. JOH always took it too far. Not sure how much the script to YELL has evolved over the years, but the original version that was circulated also (allegedly) included verbatim conversations between JOH, the professor who had concerns with the SA content in Slave Play and how it was being managed in rehearsal, and the school’s Title 9 rep. It was a huge invasion of privacy and the only reason the administration made nothing of it was because he was a student. JOH complained for three calendar years about Yale and his free ride, which also included a living stipend to pay rent and incidentals, but talked about the experience like it was a prison sentence. He could have left at anytime but chose to stay because he needed the Yale network and contacts to elevate his position in the industry, which it did. His personality and behavior then took it even further. There were also other situations where he showed how unsavory his core happens to be, but that’s another story. Either way, I respect him as an artist with a voice, but never as a person.

east side story said: "This is a (not very good) play that JOH wrote "

Could be the first line of a review for any play he's ever writtten.

I am probably the only person who actually liked Daddy. But I hated Slave Play. And I cannot stand the person who wrote them. That loathing has gotten worse over the years, so he won't get another dime out of me.

Didn't he recently "save" the Williamstown Theater Festival?

Kad said: "I thought Slave Play was fine but not nearly as incisive or clever as it presented itself. I don’t fully understand how Harris parleyed it into being a cultural figure, particularly since his other works have all been lower quality (Black Exhibitionwas borderline unwatchable). Other early career playwrights with stronger bodies of work seem to languish in relative obscurity for years, but Harris gets to host the Met Gala and gets handed the keys to Williamstown. The industry is wild."

Yeah. His Williamtown job is embarrassing for the theater. Hopefully they see the error in their ways with that, if they have not already. Not smart. He has a good manager and publicist, as of now, so that's all it is. Smoke and mirrors - hopefully dissipating and cracking.

Not a real production. This was something being filmed for a show on one of the streaming services.