| Geocaching anyone? | Read "To
Kebab and Conquer," the 7/21/10 New
York Press cover story by Jeffrey Stanley |
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       Writer-Director Jeffrey Stanley's semiautobiographical wartime drama TESLA'S LETTERS (published by Samuel French, 2000) received its world premiere to rave reviews Off Broadway at The Ensemble Studio Theatre, its UK premiere at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and numerous other productions around the world including the 2007 Chicago premiere which was nominated for 3 Joseph Jefferson Awards. He was commissioned by the Mill Mountain Theatre in Virginia to write the comedy MEDICINE, MAN (published by Createspace, 2008) which world premiered on their main stage in 2003 and went on to a Southwest premiere at Theatre Three Dallas in 2005. He was commissioned by The Ensemble Studio Theatre to write the play FISHING WITH TONY AND JOE, and he wrote, directed and performed in his autobiographical comedy THE GOLDEN HORSESHOE, A Lecture on Tragedy in New York at the Gershwin Hotel and Don't Tell Mama. He also directed a racially reimagined revival of Sam Shepard's THE GOD OF HELL in 2007. He is immediate president of the board of directors of the NEW YORK NEO-FUTURISTS. Stanley wrote and directed the award-winning short film LADY IN A BOX starring Sarita Choudhury and licensed numerous times for international broadcast and distribution. He has won numerous screenwriting awards, and has either optioned or been hired to write screenplays for Peter Farrelly-Charlie Wessler-GreeneStreet Films, Buckeye Entertainment-Cabin Creek Films, Andrew Lauren Productions and others. His feature screenplay BRAIN ON FIRE which he will also direct has been optioned to producer Matthew Myers. He is a past member of the DnA Lab, an invitation-only weekly workshop for emerging film directors, and is currently a script consultant for UK-based Initialize Films and a judge and script analyst for the Script Savvy Monthly Screenwriting Competition. He has been a resident of Yaddo and a Copeland Fellow at Amherst College, and he has appeared as a guest writer in Time Out New York, The New York Times, New York Press, Hemispheres, and was a senior advisor to the editors of Boston University's Center for Millennial Studies book on apocalypse movements The End That Does (Equinox Books, 2006). Stanley frequently teaches playwriting and screenwriting courses at New York University Tisch School of the Arts Department of Dramatic Writing, and NYU's School of Continuing & Professional Studies. He has also taught in Croatia at The Imaginary Academy summer film and theatre workshop sponsored by the Soros Foundation, and for mediabistro.com. He holds an MFA in Dramatic Writing from NYU Tisch where he studied under playwright David Ives, and a BFA from Tisch in Film & Television Production with a minor in cultural anthropology.  Reviews, Features, Guest Writer and Media Appearances New York Times New York Press Village Voice Time Out New York Hemispheres MediaElites.com Show Business Weekly Back Stage BBC Radio Scotland Chicago Tribune Chicago Sun-Times Chicago Free Press Time Out Chicago Dallas Morning News Dallas Observer Roanoke Times, Virginia NPR-WVTF Radio, Virginia NBC-WSLS Television, Virginia WJJS-FM, Virginia Unless otherwise noted, all photos, icons, text and other content on this site are ©by brain-on-fire.com. All rights reserved. |
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