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J STEPHEN BRANTLEY (1970 - ) |
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Nationality: USA Email: Click here to contact Website: Click here to visit |
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J.Stephen Brantley's work has been commissioned by Lincoln Center Director's Lab and Performance Space 122, where his Distortion Taco was named a Village Voice Pick Of The Year. His award-winning plays include Break, Blood Grass, Gatos Locos & The Ave Maria, Good God Enters Flossing, Eightythree Down, Hard Sparkle, and The Jamb. Brantley is a graduate of NYU's Experimental Theatre Wing, a member of Emerging Artists Theatre and the Dramatists Guild, and a winner of the Georgia Theatre Conference Award. Brantley is a student of Kabbalah who lives with his partner in New York City and Southampton Village.
Plays by J Stephen Brantley
Blood Grass | ||
| 1st Produced: | Universal Theatre, Provincetown MA | - - - | ||||
Company: | Universal Theatre 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 | #107593 | |||
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Genre: | Short drama | |||||
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Synopsis: | When a strange young man with a knife in his gut appears in Mary's garden on a cool autumn night, she is forced to confront her past and admit her part in a terrible calamity she'd thought long buried. Sex, murder, the turning of soil. | |||||
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Break | ||
| 1st Produced: | Universal Theatre, Provincetown MA | 2008 | ||||
Company: | Emerging Artists Theatre, EATfest, NYC; The Eclectic Theatre Company, L.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 | #83187 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | part of Emerging Artists Theatre's Spring 2008 edition of their semi-annual new works festival | |||||
Synopsis: | During the late hours of a summer night on the coast of Eastern Long Island, a displaced Englishman and the drug addict who breaks into his home confront their differences and, more importantly, discover their secret similarities. | |||||
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Distortion Taco: Analog Hunger In A Digital World | ||
| 1st Produced: | New York University, Experimental Theatre Wing, NYC | 1996 | ||||
Company: | Performance Space 122, New York City | |||||
| 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 | #84949 | |||
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| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 5 | ||
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Synopsis: | Rocker Trip returns to home to San Antonio to rekindle a dangerous flame with ex Kate, but his plans go terribly wrong. Sex, drugs, saints and angels, high art and attempted murder in a rock n roll fantasy set in Spring of 1993. | |||||
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Eightythree Down | ||
| 1st Produced: | Under St. Marks | 01 Sep 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 | #107594 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 1 | ||
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Notes: | Winner Georgia Theatre Conference Award | |||||
Synopsis: | It's New Year's Eve 1983 and Martin's plan for a quiet night in his parents' basement is thrown into chaos when his old friend Dina and her hooligan roommates arrive with a gun, a bag of stolen books, and a dangerous idea. | |||||
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Furbelow | ||
| 1st Produced: | Rehearsed reading at The Inkwell, Washington DC | 2010 | ||||
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 | #136314 | |||
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Gatos Locos and the Ave Maria | ||
| 1st Produced: | Minor Latham Playhouse, Barnard College, New York | 1992 | ||||
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| 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 | #136315 | |||
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Good God Enters Flossing | ||
| 1st Produced: | Universal Theatre, Provincetown MA | Jan 2009 | ||||
Company: | Universal Theatre 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 | #107213 | |||
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Genre: | Short comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | It's a normal morning for Josh, Dinsmore, and Billy until the Ark Of The Covenant spontaneously materializes in their living room. What sort of message is God sending, and why would He choose a trio of trendy Brooklyn queers to spread the Word? | |||||
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Hard Sparkle | ||
| 1st Produced: | EAT at TADA, New York City | Nov 2009 | ||||
Company: | Emerging Artists 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 | #52972 | |||
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Genre: | Short comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | Actress Anne Eaton-Hart has taken to her bed. Swindled of millions and having lost an Emmy to Susan Lucci, Anne is convinced she's dying. While her devoted accountant Eddie does his level best to lift her spirits, nothing less than divine intervention will resurrect the self-obsessed star. | |||||
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Jackson Heights 3AM | ||
| 1st Produced: | PS 69, 77-02 37th Ave and Queens Theater in the Park, NY | 13 Jan 2012 | ||||
Company: | theatre 167 in association with Queens 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 | #135870 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | large cast | |||||
Notes: | written by Jenny Lyn Bader, J. Stephen Brantley, Ed Cardona, Les Hunter, Tom Miller, Melisa Tien and Joy Tomasko; conceived by Laura Kreith | |||||
Synopsis: | Seven playwrights explore the most culturally diverse neighborhood in the world from 10pm-4amits brightest lights and loneliest cornersin dance clubs, all-night bakeries, sex shops, laundromats, side streets, and alleyways. They ate arepas prepared by the "sainted arepa lady" and, two blocks away, saw the homeless fed by the local hero a.k.a. "Angel of Queens" under the elevated trains. They interviewed numbers-players, sex trafficking experts, bartenders, cops, and cross-dressers. They were invited to dance, to gamble, and to watch an undercover police operation& And they were invited to let their imaginations run dark, funny, sexy, and very very late. It was written using collaborative methods developed by Theatre 167, with the seven playwrights sharing characters and storylines, melding distinct voices and languages into one whole. | |||||
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Jamb, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Eclectic Company Theatre, Los Angeles CA | Jan 2010 | ||||
Company: | Eclectic Company 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 | #98871 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 1 | ||
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Notes: | Previous readings in NYC at Orange Hanky, Planet Connections Theatre Fest, Dixon Place. | |||||
Synopsis: | Tuffer and Roderick are turning forty. Neither wants to face it. While Tuffer continues to smoke, snort and screw his way through Manhattan's much younger gay male population, Roderick's gone as strait as possible by embracing activism and martial arts. With the arrival of Tuffer's latest boy toy, Brandon, Roderick can take no more. After a failed quasi-intervention, he insists that Tuffer accompany him to his mother's house to sober up in rural New Mexico. When Roderick's mother Abigail, a formerly successful folk singer, throws the guys a very organic birthday party, twenty years of tension comes to a head. The foursome find themselves in a spiritual exile on the high desert, each on the verge of something new, almost somewhere, in the jamb. | |||||
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Nevertheless | ||
| 1st Produced: | Blue Box at the Bowery Poetry Club, New York | 2010 | ||||
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 | #136316 | |||
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Shiny Pair of Complications | ||
| 1st Produced: | LGBT Community Center, New York | 11 Jun 2010 | ||||
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 | #115353 | |||
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Genre: | Short play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Someone You Know Is Starving Tonight | ||
| 1st Produced: | NYU Experiment Theatre Wing, New York | 1995 | ||||
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| 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 | #136317 | |||
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Struck | ||
| 1st Produced: | Turtle Shell Productions, 8-Minute Madness, New York City | 2008 | ||||
Company: | Turtle Shell Productions, NYC; | |||||
| 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 | #84948 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | After suffering a stroke, novelist Adrian is visited by his longtime friend Veronica. Despite constant interruption by Adrian's assistant Bit, Veronica manages to get her friend 'out of that chair' - and onto the floor in a smack-down of New York art world egos. | |||||
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