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 Custom House, 2008) which world premiered on their main stage and went on to a Southwest premiere at Theatre Three Dallas. He was commissioned by The Ensemble Studio Theatre to write the forthcoming play FISHING WITH TONY AND JOE. He directed a racially reimagined revival of Sam Shepard's THE GOD OF HELL in 2007.  He wrote, directed and performed in his autobiographical comedy THE GOLDEN HORSESHOE, A Lecture on Tragedy at the Gershwin Hotel and Don't Tell Mama, and he directed the premiere of his short play HIGH TEA performed by the Eastcheap Rep theatre company at the Samuel French Short Play Festival, and his short play STREPTOCOCCI: A Love Story at the Algonquin Theatre One-Act Festival. He is president of the board of directors of the award-winning New York Neo-Futurists avant garde theatre ensemble.

  He 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, is a script consultant for UK-based Initialize Films and a judge and script analyst for the Script Savvy Monthly Screenwriting Competition.

Stanley has been a resident of Yaddo and a Copeland Fellow at Amherst College.  He has appeared as a guest writer in The New York Times and Time Out New York, and was a senior advisor on the editorial board of Boston University's Center for Millennial Studies book on apocalypse movements The End That Does (Equinox Books, 2006).  He is also an arts and culture blogger for ASSME.org.

He frequently teaches playwriting and screenwriting at New York University School of Continuing & Professional Studies, and New York University Tisch School of the Arts Department of Dramatic Writing.  He has also taught in Croatia at The Imaginary Academy summer film and theatre workshop sponsored by the Soros Foundation, and for mediabistro.com.  Stanley 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.



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