J.Stephen Brantley

Playwright

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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 one-act Break has been produced in Provincetown, New York, New Orleans, Los Angeles and at the Absolut Dublin International Gay Theatre Fest in May 2009.

Other plays include Blood Grass, Gatos Locos & The Ave Maria, Good God Enters Flossing
, Hard Sparkle, The Jamb.and Shiny Pair Of Complications. His Eightythree Down, which won the 2009 Georgia Theatre Conference Award will be produced in NYC in 2010.

Brantley is a graduate of NYU's Experimental Theatre Wing, a member of Emerging Artists Theatre and the Dramatists Guild, and a quintessential Scorpio. He lives with his partner in New York City and Southampton Village.

Scroll down for a complete list of plays and productions.

The works:

BLOOD GRASS (2009) Universal Theatre, Provincetown; Longwood University, Farmville VA; Flathead Valley CC, Kalispell MT

BREAK (2007) Universal Theatre, Provincetown; Emerging Artists Theatre, NYC; Eclectic Company Theatre, Los Angeles; Absolut Dublin Gay Theatre Fest, Dublin, Ireland; Over The Rainbow, Portland.


DISTORTION TACO: ANALOG HUNGER IN A DIGITAL WORLD (1996) NYU Experimental Theatre Wing, NYC; House Of Candles, NYC; Performance Space 122, NYC.


EIGHTYTHREE DOWN (2009) winner, Georgia Theatre Conference Award, Columbus GA. Coming to NYC Autumn 2010.


FURBELOW
(2010)


GATOS LOCOS AND THE AVE MARIA
(1992) Minor Latham Playhouse, Barnard College, NYC.

GOOD GOD ENTERS FLOSSING (2008) Universal Theatre, Provincetown; Madcap Players, Washington DC; Chameleon Theatre Circle, Burnsville MI (staged reading); Three Wise Monkeys, San Francisco (staged reading).


HARD SPARKLE (2009) Emerging Artists Theatre, NYC.


THE JAMB (2008)
Eclectic Company Theatre, Los Angeles; Planet Connections Theatre Fest, NYC (staged reading); Dixon Place HOT! Fest, NYC (staged reading);

SOMEONE YOU KNOW IS STARVING TONIGHT (1995) NYU Experimental Theatre Wing


SHINY PAIR OF COMPLICATIONS
(2009) Shelterbelt Theatre, Omaha NE; Freehold Theatre, Seattle WA; Village Playwrights, NYC

STRUCK (2007) Turtle Shell Theatre, NYC; Arts Center Live, Carrboro NC; Stagecrafter's New Works Play Festival, Royal Oak MI; 11:11 Theatre Company, Boston;
Flathead Valley CC, Kalispell MT; Circus Theatricals, Los Angeles; Piper Theatre @ BAX, Brooklyn NY

STRUCK/BREAK (2008) The Duplex, NYC; New Orleans Theatre Festival, NOLA.