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THOMAS BRADSHAW (1980 - ) |
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Nationality: USA Email: n/a Website: n/a |
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Literary Agent: AO International |
According to The New York Times, playwright Thomas Bradshaw's work is "likely to leave you speechless." A professor of playwriting at Medgar Evers College, Bradshaw has been named one of the top 10 playwrights to watch by Time Out New York and Best Provocative Playwright in 2007 by The Village Voice. His plays include The Bereaved, Dawn, Southern Promises, Purity, Strom Thurmond Is Not A Racist and Cleansed. He is currently working on commissions from Soho Rep (where he was a 2008-2009 Streslin Fellow) and The Goodman Theater.
Plays by Thomas Bradshaw
Ashes, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | reading at NYTW | - - - | ||||
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 | #124748 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 3 | ||
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Synopsis: | It's hard to be a white supremacist these days. As a result of constant taunting, these Aryan Brothers decide to go undercover. | |||||
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Bereaved, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Wild Project, NY | 09 Sep 2009 | ||||
Company: | Partial Comfort Productions | |||||
| 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 | #102693 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
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Synopsis: | In The Bereaved, Carol is a lawyer who believes that she has a fatal heart condition. With unpaid college loans and no life insurance, she fears for the welfare of her 15 year-old son and her underemployed husband. In a world of drug dealing, teen pregnancy, racism and mindless violence, how can a dying woman insure the future well being of her fragile family? | |||||
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Boy's Dream, A | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
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 | #124750 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | When a 14 year old boy's mother dies of a drug overdose, he moves to New York to pursue his dream of becoming an actor. His impromtu guardians help him to bury his mother and discover his sexuality. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Burning | ||
| 1st Produced: | Acorn Theatre | 14 Nov 2011 | ||||
Company: | The New Group | |||||
| 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 | #133514 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 8 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | In emotionally charged intersecting stories spanning two eras, a contemporary black painter, who depicts shocking racial violence in his art but hides his race from the press, goes to Berlin for a gallery show only to find that his work has been misinterpreted. And in the mid-'80s an ambitious teenage boy, recently orphaned, comes to New York to become an actor and is taken in by a gay couple in the industry as they are preparing the debut of a new Broadway play. In searing and graphic tales of self-invention and sexual identity, Burning attacks the pretenses of the worlds of art and theatre. | |||||
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Cleansed | ||
| 1st Produced: | walkerspace | 2005 | ||||
Company: | Immediate Theatre Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | Samuel French, Inc - New York >>>, 2007 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0-9794852-1-3 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #62163 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 4 | ||
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| A new play about a black doctor, his white wife, and the challenges their mixed-race daughter faces growing up in a white-bread Indiana town. From being taunted by Skinheads to becoming a Skinhead, Cleansed explores the underbelly of racial identification in America. Sometimes the hate you have for yourself overwhelms anything anybody else could feel for you | |||||
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Dawn | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2008 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0-573-69733-3 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #91677 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | plus 1 male or female character and 1 male voice over | |||||
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| Dawn revolves around Hampton, an abusive alcoholic who has completely alienated his wife and children. Can he stop drinking and make up for the past, even amidst some very dark revelations of incest and pedophilia? Dawn is one father's story of redemption and reconciliation-with a twist | |||||
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Job | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
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 | #124749 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | An adaptation of the Book of Job | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Mary | ||
| 1st Produced: | Jan 2011 | |||||
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 | #124747 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | At the height of what Time magazine dubbed AIDS hysteria in 1983, college student David invites his boyfriend home to his parents' house in Virginia where nothing has changed since the 1800sincluding the slave quarters | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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New York Living | ||
| 1st Produced: | 20 Nov 2009 | |||||
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 | #106684 | |||
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Genre: | Ten Min | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | The Flea Theater has commissioned six playwrights to create ten-minute plays that explore the impact of the current economic crisis on the younger generation. Presented under the title THE GREAT RECESSION, the evening features new work by Thomas Bradshaw, Sheila Callaghan, Erin Courtney, Will Eno, Itamar Moses and Adam Rapp - all writers recently nurtured by The Flea. The plays will be performed by The Bats, the resident acting company of The Flea | |||||
Synopsis: | A biting satire of young thespians dealing with lost jobs, expensive apartments and sexual frustration - all while trying to win a Tony Award. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Prophet | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2005 | |||||
Company: | Performance Space 122 | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | - | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #59689 | |||
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Genre: | Satire | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
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Synopsis: | A man wakes up one morning and decides he must kill himself. He is angry with himself for not hitting his wife every time she has an independent thought (as Abraham and Moses would have done'. After she dies and God reveals to him that he is the new Prophet, the man takes a new wife, dresses her in slave chains, and begins to preach his newfound gospel of male domination. Simultaneously humorous and disturbing, Bradshaw's Prophet explores controversial issues in startling and unexpected ways. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Purity | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2007 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | - | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #59690 | |||
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Genre: | 75 min Dark Satire | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | some doubling possible | |||||
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Synopsis: | In Purity, a refined and prominent African-American English professor's life is turned upside down when a new, 'more black' professor is hired in his department and challenges his authenticity, his marriage to a white woman, and his entire way of life. This way of life consists of literature, booze, cocaine binges, and pedophilia. From realism to fantasy, Purity takes us on a journey from the Ivy League to the ante-bellum South to the fields of Ecuador and back again, ending on a note of shocking violence | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Southern Promises | ||
| 1st Produced: | 07 Sep2008 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0-573-69734-0 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #88899 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | with doubling | |||||
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| When the master of the plantation dies, he wills his slaves to be freed, but his wife doesn't think that good property should be squandered. Pandemonium ensues. The play pulls from the true stories of slave narratives from The Great Escapes including that of Henry Box Brown, a 19th century Virginia slave who escaped to freedom by arranging to have himself mailed to Philadelphia abolitionists in a dry goods container. Southern Promises provides a unique portrait of the Old South | |||||
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Strom Thurmond Is Not a Racist | ||
| 1st Produced: | walkerspace | 2005 | ||||
Company: | Immediate Theatre Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | - | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #59691 | |||
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Genre: | Satire One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | doubling, flexible casting possible | |||||
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Synopsis: | Inspired by a true story, Strom Thurmond is Not a Racist is an absurdist look at the life of Senator Strom Thurmond. After fathering a child with his black maid as a young man, the extremely white Strom Thurmond became one of the country's greatest segregationists; all the while playing daddy to his bi-racial daughter Essie Mae Washington Williams. How could someone live such a duplicitous life? It happens. Winner of The American Theater Coop's National Playwriting Contest in 2005 | |||||
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