GEORGE BRANT
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George Brant’s plays include Elephant’s Graveyard, The Mourners' Bench, Any Other Name, Grizzly Mama, Grounded, Salvage, Three Voyages of the Lobotomobile, Defiant, Dark Room, Little Sir Echo, Good on Paper, Ashes, NOK, The Lonesome Hoboes, One Hand Clapping, Terminal One, The Royal Historian of Oz, Lovely Letters, Three Men in a Boat, Borglum! The Mount Rushmore Musical, Tights on a Wire and Night of the Mime.
His work has been produced and developed by such companies as Trinity Repertory Company, the Kennedy Center, Cleveland Play House, Asolo Repertory, the Bay Area Playwrights Festival, the Playwrights’ Center, Dobama Theatre, Hangar Theatre, WordBRIDGE Playwright’s Lab, Theatre 4, Florida Studio Theatre, ATHE, Premiere Stages,Trustus Theatre, Balagan Theatre, Elemental Theatre Collective, the Drama League, Debutantes and Vagabonds, Terrific New Theatre, the Disney Channel, Circle Theatre, Factory Theatre, StreetSigns Theatre Company, and zeppo theater company.
His plays have been awarded the Keene Prize for Literature, the David Mark Cohen National Playwriting Award from the Kennedy Center, the Smith Prize, an Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award for 2012, a citation of “Best New Play” from the Austin Critics’ Table, the Clauder Competition State Winner, a Playwright's Center Core Apprentice Workshop, and the Premiere Stages New Plays Festival.
He has received writing fellowships from the James A. Michener Center for Writers, the MacDowell Colony, the Djerassi Resident Artists Program and the Blue Mountain Center, and commissions from Dobama Theatre and Theatre 4.
George received his Masters in Writing from the University of Texas at Austin and is a proud member of the Dramatists Guild.
His plays are published by Samuel French, Smith & Kraus, and Chicago Plays.
His work has been produced and developed by such companies as Trinity Repertory Company, the Kennedy Center, Cleveland Play House, Asolo Repertory, the Bay Area Playwrights Festival, the Playwrights’ Center, Dobama Theatre, Hangar Theatre, WordBRIDGE Playwright’s Lab, Theatre 4, Florida Studio Theatre, ATHE, Premiere Stages,Trustus Theatre, Balagan Theatre, Elemental Theatre Collective, the Drama League, Debutantes and Vagabonds, Terrific New Theatre, the Disney Channel, Circle Theatre, Factory Theatre, StreetSigns Theatre Company, and zeppo theater company.
His plays have been awarded the Keene Prize for Literature, the David Mark Cohen National Playwriting Award from the Kennedy Center, the Smith Prize, an Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award for 2012, a citation of “Best New Play” from the Austin Critics’ Table, the Clauder Competition State Winner, a Playwright's Center Core Apprentice Workshop, and the Premiere Stages New Plays Festival.
He has received writing fellowships from the James A. Michener Center for Writers, the MacDowell Colony, the Djerassi Resident Artists Program and the Blue Mountain Center, and commissions from Dobama Theatre and Theatre 4.
George received his Masters in Writing from the University of Texas at Austin and is a proud member of the Dramatists Guild.
Latest News
The Mourners' Bench is currently receiving its world-premiere production by Trinity Repertory Company in Providence, RI, running through May 24. More information here
Elephant's Graveyard is currently receiving a production by Red Tape Theatre in Chicago, IL,
running through June 16, 2012. More information here
Grounded will receive a workshop/reading by New Harmony Project, May 21- June 2. More information here
Grounded is the winner of this year's Smith Prize, and will receive a reading at Unicorn Theatre in Kansas City on June 8th. More information here
Grounded has been selected for the Bay Area Playwrights Festival, July 20-29. More information here
Bethena published in Smith & Kraus' Boston Theatre Marathon XII Anthology, available here
Elephant's Graveyard published by Samuel French, available here
Lockdown published in Smith & Kraus' Boston Theatre Marathon XI Anthology, available here
Befriend Elephant's Graveyard on FaceBook here
Elephant's Graveyard is currently receiving a production by Red Tape Theatre in Chicago, IL,
running through June 16, 2012. More information here
Grounded will receive a workshop/reading by New Harmony Project, May 21- June 2. More information here
Grounded is the winner of this year's Smith Prize, and will receive a reading at Unicorn Theatre in Kansas City on June 8th. More information here
Grounded has been selected for the Bay Area Playwrights Festival, July 20-29. More information here
Bethena published in Smith & Kraus' Boston Theatre Marathon XII Anthology, available here
Elephant's Graveyard published by Samuel French, available here
Lockdown published in Smith & Kraus' Boston Theatre Marathon XI Anthology, available here
Befriend Elephant's Graveyard on FaceBook here