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George Brant

GEORGE BRANT

  
Nationality:    USA
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George Brant's plays include elephant's Graveyard, any Other Name, the Mourners' Bench, Grizzly Mama, Three Voyages of the Lobotomobile, Defiant, Dark Room, 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. His work has been produced and developed by Trinity Repertory Company, the Kennedy Center, the Cleveland Play House, the Playwrights Foundation, Dobama Theatre, the Playwrights' Center, WordBRIDGe Playwright's Lab, equity Library Theatre, Premiere Stages, Florida Studio Theatre, 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 script elephant's Graveyard was awarded the David Mark Cohen National Playwriting award from the Kennedy Center and the Keene Prize for Literature. 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 as well as commissions from Dobama Theatre and Theatre 4. George received his Masters in Writing from the University of Texas at Austin and is a member of the Dramatists Guild. His scripts are published by Samuel French, Smith & Kraus, and Broadway Play Publishing.

Research:    Member of the Dramatists Guild of America (as at 2015)

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         All Apologies         Any Other Name         Ashes         Baby Talk         Borglum! the Mount Rushmore Musical         Cabin, The         Dark Room         Defiant         Elephant's Graveyard         Good On Paper         Grizzly Mama         Grounded         Little Sir Echo         Lockdown         Lonesome Hoboes         Lovely Letters         Miracle: A Tragedy         Mount Rushmore Musical, The         Mourners' Bench, The         Night Of the Mime         Nok         One Hand Clapping         Royal Historian Of Oz, The         Salvage         Shop Talk         Three Men In A Boat         Three Voyages Of the Lobotomobile         Tights On A Wire

All Apologies

Synopsis:
the fall guy for all of corporate America shares his secrets.

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1st Produced:
Sas Playfest     2005

Organisations:
atlantis Playmakers

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Genre:
Dark Comedy

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Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Any Other Name

Synopsis:
In this compelling thriller set in 1840s London, a struggling poet visits his idol in search of inspiration. Instead, he unleashes a madness that feeds his insatiable hunger for fame. as art and ambition collide, how far will one man go to make a name for himself in a world where the truth cannot be trusted?
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1st Produced:
Zella Fry Theatre, Vaughn Eames Building, Kean University (Union, Nj)     04 Sep 2009

Organisations:
Premiere Stages

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  3            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Ashes

Synopsis:
a disturbing and violent modern-day ghost story, a son is visited by the abusive spirit of his father, who is set on destroying his life a second time.

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Play/Drama

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Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Baby Talk

Synopsis:
A couple try to achieve perfection with their baby - but is it theirs?

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Genre:
One act

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Borglum! the Mount Rushmore Musical

Synopsis:
the pseudo-historical, semi-factual, comic musical biography of John Gutzon Borglum, sculptor of the colossus known as Mount Rushmore.

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1st Produced:
-     1999

Organisations:
zeppo Theatre company

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Musical Comedy

Parts:
Male:  7 (flexible)            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Cabin, The

Synopsis:
A couple are spending the night at the family cabin secrets are revealed

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Genre:
One act

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Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Dark Room

Synopsis:
a theatrical response to the haunting photographs of Francesca Woodman, a singular artist who flourished in the 70's before taking her own life at the age of 22.

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  5            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Defiant

Synopsis:
a woman incurs the wrath of a grieving country when she refuses to memorialize her husband following his death in a national tragedy.

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Male:  4            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Elephant's Graveyard

Elephant's Graveyard
Elephant's Graveyard is the true tale of the tragic collision of a struggling circus and a tiny town in Tennessee, which resulted in the only known lynching of an elephant. Set in September of 1916, the play combines historical fact and legend, exploring the deep-seated American craving for spectacle, violence and revenge.

Notes:
Winner of the 2008 Keene Prize for Literature. Winner of the 2008 David Mark Cohen National Playwriting Award

1st Produced:
Oscar Brockett Theatre, Austin, Texas     16 Nov 2007

Organisations:
University of Texas

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Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  10            Female:  3            Other:  flexible casting (Roles may be played by any race or gender except when specified.)

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Good On Paper

Synopsis:
a reverse-gender take on the Pygmalion legend, a romantic comedy in which a police sketch-artist falls in love with one of her drawings.

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Genre:
Romantic Comedy

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Grizzly Mama

Synopsis:
Deb sees herself as a liberal avenger. She moves into the house next door to a certain vice presidential candidate with a machine gun

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1st Produced:
-     09 Sep 2011

Organisations:
Dobama Theatre

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Dark Comedy

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Male:  -            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Grounded

Grounded
From the award-winning playwright of Elephant's Graveyard, George Brant, comes the story of an ace fighter pilot who's career in the sky is ended early due to an unexpected pregnancy. Reassigned to operate military drones from a windowless trailer outside Las Vegas, she hunts terrorists by day and returns to her family each night. As the pressure to track a high-profile target mounts, the boundaries begin to blur between the desert in which she lives and the one she patrols half a world away.

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rolling World Premiere by SF Playhouse (California); Borderlands Theater (Arizona); Unicorn theatre ( Missouri) as part of the National New Play Network's Continued Life program.

1st Produced:
Usa     2012

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Oberon Books 2013
Samuel French, Inc - New York (2014) >>>    978-1783190393

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Little Sir Echo

Synopsis:
Goebbels sets up a swing band to undermine the Allies morale

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Genre:
Play with music

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  5 either sex

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Lockdown

Lockdown
Now an annual tradition, the Boston theater Marathon utilizes hundreds of actors and dozens of directors to sponsor 50 ten-minute plays in 10 hours (five plays per hour!), each one supported by a different New england theatre company

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1st Published:
Boston theater Marathon XI - 2009 anthology - 50 Ten Minute Plays Boston theater Marathon XI ~ By Kate Snodgrass (ed) - Smith and Kraus, 2010   978-1575257716

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Genre:
Ten Min

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Lonesome Hoboes

Synopsis:
an ex-member of an elite Bob Dylan fan club finds himself drawn back into its orbit when he reunites with them on a stop of Dylan's Neverending Tour.

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1st Produced:
-     2005

Organisations:
Factory Theater

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Lovely Letters

Synopsis:
a parody of epistolary romances, Lovely Letters chronicles the life-long affair of two self-absorbed and rather dim star-crossed lovers.

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1st Produced:
-     1994

Organisations:
zeppo Theatre company

1st Published:
Chicago Plays, 1994   1568500475

Music:
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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  1 (either gender)

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Miracle: A Tragedy

Synopsis:
A Florida prison has a wing for Evangelicals. An ex-prisoner proposes to the minister's daughter

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Genre:
Verse play

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Mount Rushmore Musical, The

Synopsis:
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Genre:
musical

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Mourners' Bench, The

Mourners' Bench, The
an emotional puzzle-play that skips back and forth in time as it tells the story of a living room and its three sets of inhabitants, all struggling to overcome the tragedy that took place within its walls.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Dowling Theatre, Providence, Rhode Island     01 Mar 2012

Organisations:
Trinity Repertory Company

1st Published:

Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama 90 min

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Night Of the Mime

Synopsis:
a parody of both story theatre and coming-of-age-through-the-death-of-ones-pet stories such as Old Yeller, Night of the Mime tells the tale of the young farm girl Taffeta and her devotion to the wild mime she claims as her own.

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1st Produced:
-     1996

Organisations:
StreetSigns Theatre Company

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Nok

Synopsis:
Knowing that her soldier son's death-notification must be delivered in person, a mother resolves to keep her son alive by never returning home again.

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1st Produced:
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Organisations:
zeppo Theatre company

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  5            Other:  -

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One Hand Clapping

Synopsis:
the most moving and perceptive one-man show ever written.

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1st Produced:
-     2002

Organisations:
zeppo Theatre company

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Royal Historian Of Oz, The

Synopsis:
a (mostly) one-man show about the life and times of the author of the Wizard of Oz books.

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1st Produced:
-     2001

Organisations:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Salvage

Synopsis:
Obsession, seduction, deception, devotion. Three women on the edge, three secrets, one basement. It gets twisted. From an eccentric new voice in American theatre comes this riveting comic-Drama about a devoted sister, a desperate mother, and a determined ex.

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1st Produced:
Venue #1: The Living Theatre, Fringe NYC, NY     16 Aug 2012

Organisations:
Theatre 4

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
1h 20m Drama Comedy

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Shop Talk

Synopsis:
A woman is bored with her job at the probation office

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Genre:
One act

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Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Three Men In A Boat

Synopsis:
an adaptation of the classic turn-of-the-century comic novel by Jerome K. Jerome, which follows the exploits of three dull-witted englishmen as they attempt to vacation on the Thames.

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1st Produced:
-     1998

Organisations:
StreetSigns Theatre Company

1st Published:
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Genre:
Comedy

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Male:  3            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Three Voyages Of the Lobotomobile

Synopsis:
a play about the inventor of the American lobotomy, Dr. Walter J. Freeman, and his tireless, deluded, and ultimately tragic quest to spread the good news of his medical procedure across America. the play presents Freeman's life in a triptych of scenes - home, work, and retirement - and explores the dark side of the American myth of the confident genius, the brilliant inventor who will stop at nothing to achieve his dream.

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  3            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Tights On A Wire

Synopsis:
the mock-tragedy of the Gambonis, a family of wire-walkers whose prideful Papa forces them into a doomed competition with the newest addition to the circus, a demented family of cannon-ballers.

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1st Produced:
-     1999

Organisations:
zeppo Theatre company

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Comedy with Music

Parts:
Male:  6            Female:  4            Other:  -

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