Literary Ashland with Haris Orkin

Our July guest was author, game writer and narrative designer Haris Orkin. Haris received degrees from Beloit College and University of Southern California. He has written several plays and screenplays, including Dada, produced among others at the American Stage, and A Saintly Switch, which became a Disney movie directed by Peter Bogdanovich.

Since 2005, Haris has written video game script for a number best selling games. Red Alert 3 was a finalist for the 2008 Writers Guild Award for best video game script.

His first novel You Only Live Once came out in 2018.