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JOHN PATRICK BRAY (1976 - ) |
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Nationality: Irish-USA Email: Click here to contact Website: n/a |
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John Patrick Bray (Ph.D., Theatre, LSU; M.F.A., Playwriting, The New School) has written plays under grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Acadiana Center for the Arts, and Acadiana C.A.R.E.S. He has earned commissions from organizations in South Louisiana and Off-Off Broadway, and has had plays produced in venues in downtown NYC (including The Robert Moss Theatre at 440 Studios, Circle in the Square-Downtown, Under St. Marks, The Red Room, and Bowery Poetry Club), and in independent theatres around the country. His plays have been developed with The Actors Studio, The New School for Drama, Epic Rep. Theatre at The Players' Club, the Last Frontier Theatre Conference, Axial Theatre, (re:)Directions Theatre Company, At Hand Theatre Company, and Rachel Klein Productions. His plays have been published by Next Stage Press, The Riant Theatre, and Heartland Plays, Inc.; and he has forthcoming publications with Smith and Kraus Publishers, Inc.; and JACPublishing. Dr. Bray has delivered papers with ASTR, ATHE, MATC, PCA/ACA, and the SCMLA, and he co-authored a paper with Dr. Keith Dorwick (University of Louisiana at Lafayette) which was delivered at the 2006 National Association of Humanities Educators. His scholarship looks at new play development, new play production, and adaptation studies. He has a forthcoming publication with Platforms (UK). Dr. Bray has been a credited reviewer for intro to theatre textbooks, and he serves on the board of advisors for a forthcoming text. He is a member of The Dramatists Guild of America, Inc., and he is an Equity Membership Candidate. Dr. Bray teaches dramatic writing and theatre appreciation at the University of Georgia.
Plays by John Patrick Bray
AmeriKan Mine | ||
| 1st Produced: | American Theatre of Actors, 314 West 54th Street, New York, NY 10019 >>> | 2005 | ||||
Company: | The Rising Sun Performance Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #56971 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Featured in the Samuel French Off-Off Broadway Festival. | |||||
Synopsis: | A hooker, a pusher, and a minister who performs same-sex marriages are about to go to jail. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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As We Speak | ||
| 1st Produced: | 14th Street Theatre, 344 East 14th Street, New York, NY 10003 >>> | 2008 | ||||
Company: | Directions Theatre Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #91678 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 5 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | This is not the time to question authority. You are either with America, or you are not'. In a post-9/11, post-Katrina world full of the politics of fear and doctrines of intolerance and hate, what are we willing to sacrifice for our own sense of security? What liberties are we willing to give up so we can go to bed at night? Inspired by Sinclair Lewis's classic It Can't Happen Here, As We Speak shows the drastic effects on the average American if what eventually emerges as a fascist dictatorship legally wins the American Presidency | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Astronaut | ||
| 1st Produced: | Brooke Point, Virginia | 2006 | ||||
Company: | Brooke Point Players | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #56972 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Commissioned by the Brooke Point Players | |||||
Synopsis: | Eight extra-terrestrials return from Earth and re-enact events that they have witnessed in their travels, including Hurricane Katrina, lazy "suburbans," and the hard work and dedication of bees. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Cookies | ||
| 1st Produced: | Producers Club 2, NY | 2002 | ||||
Company: | The Riant Theatre | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #56970 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | 3 m/f | |||||
Notes: | Also produced with the Rising Sun Performance Company, and by the Shandaken Playfair (featuring performances from children). | |||||
Synopsis: | Three children in a priory school learn the importance of status while negotiating over pens, sandwiches, and cookies. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Cover Mangets | ||
| 1st Produced: | Kraine Theatre | 2006 | ||||
Company: | The Rising Sun Performance Comapny | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #55432 | |||
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Genre: | Play One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Cover Magnets is the prequel to John's soon to be produced play Liner Notes. | |||||
Synopsis: | Two punk rockers visit the grave of their first drummer who overdosed. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Dancing with the Virus | ||
| 1st Produced: | Cite des Arts in Lafayette, Louisiana | 2006 | ||||
Company: | Acadiana Arts Council | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #55602 | |||
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Genre: | 90 min One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | written by Keith Dorwick and John Patrick Bray.This play was written under a Grant from the Acadiana Arts Council. It is the collected narrations from persons who were touched by the HIV virus in Southern Louisiana. | |||||
Synopsis: | Scenes and monologues dealing with persons who either are HIV positive, or who have someone in their lives who is HIV positive. Dance is used as a metaphor. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Down Low | ||
| 1st Produced: | Fletcher Hall Theatre (Staged Reading), University of Louisiana, Lafayette | 2007 | ||||
Company: | The Dancing Project | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #74845 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | written by John Patrick Bray and Keith Dorwick | |||||
Synopsis: | Down Low focuses on the issue of HIV/AIDS and how it impacts the Southern Louisiana African-American community. Down Low was supported with a grant from Acadiana C.A.R.E.S and a Decentralized Arts Funding Grant from the Acadiana Arts Council with funds provided by the Louisiana Division of the Arts. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Eleanor's Passing | ||
| 1st Produced: | Normal, IL | 09 Jun 2011 | ||||
Company: | Heartland Theatre Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #131190 | |||
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Genre: | 10-Minute Play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Eleanor's Passing features the same characters as Resonator Blues (3 men in their seventies). "Tall Glass" is also mentioned in Goodnight Lovin' Trail and Trickster at the Gate. | |||||
Synopsis: | Now that Moe's wife Eleanor has passed away, his old friends Gus and Tall Glass stop by to cheer him up. Share a beer. Help him out with his house. And his garden. Move in. With a dog. Friends gotta stick together, y'know? | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Foul Feast | ||
| 1st Produced: | Dutchess Hall Theatre | 1996 | ||||
Company: | Programming Board, DuTheatre Companyhess Community College | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #57117 | |||
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Genre: | 90 min One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 5 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | written by twin brothers John Patrick and Gregory Carl Bray | |||||
Synopsis: | Twin brothers invite a host of people over in order to recreate a sacrifice to an Aztec God. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Generation X Tries to Kill the Cast of Glee, But They Are Zombies So It Doesn't Work (A Conclusion in Short by Dr. John Patrick Bray) | ||
| 1st Produced: | The Glacier Inn, Valdez, Alaska | 14 Jun 2011 | ||||
Company: | Valdez Fringe Festival | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #131191 | |||
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Genre: | Satire/ 5-minute play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Produced as part of the 24-hour play festival at the 2011 Last Frontier Theatre Conference in Valdez, Alaska. | |||||
Synopsis: | Generation X takes umbrage with the millennial's lack of appreciation for previous generations. Unfortunately, the millennials are zombies, hell-bent on devouring the past. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Goodnight Lovin' Trail | ||
| 1st Produced: | Producers Club 2, NY | 2004 | ||||
Company: | The Riant Theatre | |||||
| 1st Published: | iUniverse 2004, & Best Plays from the Strawberry One-Act Festival, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #56967 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Finalist for the Winter 2004 Strawberry One-Act Festival. Published in The Best Plays from the Strawberry One-Act Festival, Volume 1.Masters Thesis at the Actors Studio Drama School. Originally produced at the Shandaken Playfair in Phoenicia, New York. | |||||
Synopsis: | Two wounded strangers find redemption in each other while haggling over a stolen guitar. And the beat goes on. . . | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Hound | ||
| 1st Produced: | Cite des Arts, Lafayette, Louisiana | 2007 | ||||
Company: | HQ Rep | |||||
| 1st Published: | http://www.shop.nextstagepress.net/product.sc?productId=68&categoryId=1 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #56966 | |||
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Genre: | Dark Comedy/Drama Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | Some parts may be played by a man or woman | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Hound originally received a staged reading at the New School for Drama in 2005; it was a Finalist with Honorable Mention for the 2005 Theatre Publicus Prize for Best New Drama, and a Semi-Finalist for the Mildred and Albert Panowski Playwriting Award at Forest Roberts Theatre at Northern Michigan University. It is a darkly comedic re-telling of The Hound of the Bakervilles in which Dr. Watson, a grieving widower, involves himself in one of Sherlock Holmes' cases that may involve a Hound of Hell. Could this Hound be a gateway to his dead wife? Hound has won accolades from industry writers Neal Bell and George Toles. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Liner Notes | ||
| 1st Produced: | 440 Studios, 440 Lafayette Street, 3rd, 4th floors, New York, NY 10003 >>> | 03 Jun 2010 | ||||
Company: | (re:) Directions Theatre Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #114981 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | This show is part of the Planet Connections Theatre Festivity. This is their official description: A Rock and Roll legend's suicide leads his daughter, Alice, to the door of the man who knew him best and hated him most: his first guitarist. Can Alice bring George back to his Rock-and-Roll roots? Can George's memories of Alice's father bring her peace? | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Mac | ||
| 1st Produced: | Shandaken Playhouse, Phoenicia, NY | 2001 | ||||
Company: | Shandaken Playfair | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #56974 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | The capitalistic machine is oiled with the blood of the workers. Many people. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Murray and the Bakers Dozen | ||
| 1st Produced: | Shandaken Playhouse, Phoenicia, NY | 2002 | ||||
Company: | Shandaken Playfair | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #56973 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | A young woman attempts to rush into marriage, not paying head to the lessons already learned in her family. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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On Top | ||
| 1st Produced: | Producers Club 2, NY | 2004 | ||||
Company: | The Riant Theatre | |||||
| 1st Published: | iUniverse 2004, & Best Plays from the Strawberry One-Act Festival Vol 2, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #56968 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Semi-Finalist for the Summer 2004 Strawberry One-Act Festival, NYC. Published in The Best Plays From the Strawberry One-Act Festival, Volume 2. | |||||
Synopsis: | Two lovers redefine the rules in a surprising way when one is accused of cheating. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Play About a Guitar | ||
| 1st Produced: | Producers Club 2, NY | 2005 | ||||
Company: | The Riant Theatre | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #56969 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | A prequel to Goodnight Lovin' Trail. The three roles are for senior citizens. Semi-Finalist for the Summer 2005 Strawberry One-Act Festival. | |||||
Synopsis: | Tall Glass has found a mysterious guitar; Moe is going back to college; Gus is left to wonder what he gets out of a strange night in Texas that touches the lives of three men in their golden years. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Revelations An Evening of One Acts | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2006 | |||||
Company: | Rising Sun Performance Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #84380 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | by Kitt Lavoie, Andi Stover, John Patrick Bray and Laura Rohrman | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Roger Can Dance | ||
| 1st Produced: | Parker Theatre at SUNY New Paltz | 1999 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #57118 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | written by twin brothers John Patrick and Gregory Carl Bray | |||||
Synopsis: | Post-College twenty-somethings are still playing High School games. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Southern Werewolf | ||
| 1st Produced: | UNDER St. Marks Theatre | 2006 | ||||
Company: | Rising Sun Performance Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #55433 | |||
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Genre: | Play One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Produced as a part of the Rising Sun Performance Company's Aspire to Inspire: Revelations. | |||||
Synopsis: | An older gentleman and a sweet Southern Belle have a surprise in store for one another while taking a walk in the moonlight. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Trickster at the Gate | ||
| 1st Produced: | Cite des Arts, Lafayette, Louisiana | 2008 | ||||
Company: | Performing Arts Society of Acadiana | |||||
| 1st Published: | http://www.shop.nextstagepress.net/product.sc?productId=76&categoryId=4 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #88960 | |||
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Genre: | Drama/Multicultural | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Trickster at the Gate was commissioned by PASA under the Big Read Acadiana Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. The Big Read Acadiana promotes literacy in five parishes in Southern Louisiana. In 2008, the five parishes were reading The Eyes Were Watching God, and created artistic works loosely based on the themes found in the stories and life of Zora Neale Hurston. Trickster is currently in negotiations for a NYC production. | |||||
Synopsis: | Nell is the human incarnation of the Yoruba God Esu Elegba, who is being forced to live a mortal life as penance for human deformities and suffering. We are given a glimpse of three time periods: her life in Southern Louisiana; and the Harlem Renaissance; and finally, Nell as an old woman, nearly forgotten by everyone. | |||||
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