Tim Sanford: Let’s talk about your evolution as an artist.  What was your upbringing?  How did you become interested in theater?

Jordan Harrison: In hindsight it looks like I was inching inevitably towards writing plays, but I didn’t really think I would do that until the end of college.  I was born in Seattle. Through third grade I grew up in Washington D.C. and then we moved back to Bainbridge Island, six miles west of Seattle, where I lived through the end of high school. 

Where’s Bainbridge Island exactly?

It’s a thirty-five minute ferry ride west of Seattle. 

Is it a commuter town?

Yeah, but it feels a lot more rural than say Staten Island.  There are horses walking down the street sometimes. Tractors.  One McDonalds, one movie theater, that sort of thing. Okay, there are two movie theaters now.

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