GEORGE BRANT
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George Brant’s plays include Elephant’s Graveyard, Grounded, The Mourners’ Bench, Salvage, Three Voyages of the Lobotomobile, Grizzly Mama, Any Other Name, Defiant, Dark Room, Miracle: A Tragedy, Good on Paper, Ashes, NOK, The Lonesome Hoboes, One Hand Clapping, 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.
A Core Writer at the Playwrights’ Center, his work has been produced internationally by such companies as Trinity Repertory Company, City Theatre, Gate Theatre of London, Page 73, Unicorn Theatre, Borderlands Theater, SF Playhouse, American Blues Theatre, Dobama Theatre, Theatre 4, Premiere Stages, Trustus Theatre, Elemental Theatre Collective, Balagan Theatre, the Drama League, the Disney Channel, Factory Theatre, Debutantes and Vagabonds, StreetSigns Theatre Company, and zeppo theater company, among others.
His plays have been generously developed by the Kennedy Center, Cleveland Play House, Asolo Rep, McCarter Theatre Center, New Harmony Project, Bay Area Playwrights Festival, WordBRIDGE Playwright’s Lab, Playwright and Director Center of Moscow, Florida Studio Theatre, New Jersey Rep, Contemporary Drama Festival of Hungary, the Hangar Theatre, Equity Library Theatre, and Ground UP Productions, among others.
His scripts have been awarded the David Mark Cohen National Playwriting Award from the Kennedy Center, the Smith Prize, the Keene Prize for Literature, an NNPN Rolling World Premiere, an Austin Critic’s Circle Best New Play Award and an Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award for 2012. He has received writing fellowships from the James A. Michener Center for Writers, the McCarter Theatre Center, the MacDowell Colony, the Djerassi Resident Artists Program, Fundacion Valparaiso and the Blue Mountain Center as well as commissions from Dobama Theatre and Theatre 4.
George received his MFA in Writing from the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas at Austin and is a member of the Dramatists Guild. He is published by Samuel French and Smith & Kraus.
A Core Writer at the Playwrights’ Center, his work has been produced internationally by such companies as Trinity Repertory Company, City Theatre, Gate Theatre of London, Page 73, Unicorn Theatre, Borderlands Theater, SF Playhouse, American Blues Theatre, Dobama Theatre, Theatre 4, Premiere Stages, Trustus Theatre, Elemental Theatre Collective, Balagan Theatre, the Drama League, the Disney Channel, Factory Theatre, Debutantes and Vagabonds, StreetSigns Theatre Company, and zeppo theater company, among others.
His plays have been generously developed by the Kennedy Center, Cleveland Play House, Asolo Rep, McCarter Theatre Center, New Harmony Project, Bay Area Playwrights Festival, WordBRIDGE Playwright’s Lab, Playwright and Director Center of Moscow, Florida Studio Theatre, New Jersey Rep, Contemporary Drama Festival of Hungary, the Hangar Theatre, Equity Library Theatre, and Ground UP Productions, among others.
His scripts have been awarded the David Mark Cohen National Playwriting Award from the Kennedy Center, the Smith Prize, the Keene Prize for Literature, an NNPN Rolling World Premiere, an Austin Critic’s Circle Best New Play Award and an Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award for 2012. He has received writing fellowships from the James A. Michener Center for Writers, the McCarter Theatre Center, the MacDowell Colony, the Djerassi Resident Artists Program, Fundacion Valparaiso and the Blue Mountain Center as well as commissions from Dobama Theatre and Theatre 4.
George received his MFA in Writing from the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas at Austin and is a member of the Dramatists Guild. He is published by Samuel French and Smith & Kraus.
Latest News
Grounded will receive a NNPN Rolling World Premiere production in San Francisco from SF Playhouse August 17-September 7th. More information here
Grounded will receive a NNPN Rolling World Premiere production in Tucson from Borderlands Theater September 26-October 13th. More information here
Grounded will receive a NNPN Rolling World Premiere production in Kansas City from Unicorn Theatre January 22-February 9, 2014. More information here
Grounded will receive a production in PIttsburgh from City Theatre March 29th - May 4th, 2014. More information here
Elephant's Graveyard will receive a production in Minneapolis from Theatre Pro Rata
February 15-March 2, 2014. More information here
Grounded will receive a production in Chicago from American Blues Theater in June, 2014. More information here
Elephant's Graveyard published by Samuel French, available here
Befriend Elephant's Graveyard on FaceBook here
Grounded will receive a NNPN Rolling World Premiere production in Tucson from Borderlands Theater September 26-October 13th. More information here
Grounded will receive a NNPN Rolling World Premiere production in Kansas City from Unicorn Theatre January 22-February 9, 2014. More information here
Grounded will receive a production in PIttsburgh from City Theatre March 29th - May 4th, 2014. More information here
Elephant's Graveyard will receive a production in Minneapolis from Theatre Pro Rata
February 15-March 2, 2014. More information here
Grounded will receive a production in Chicago from American Blues Theater in June, 2014. More information here
Elephant's Graveyard published by Samuel French, available here
Befriend Elephant's Graveyard on FaceBook here