Writer-Director Jeffrey Stanley's semiautobiographical wartime drama TESLA'S LETTERS (published by Samuel French, 2000) received its world premiere 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.  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 and directed the premiere of his short play HIGH TEA performed by the Eastcheap Rep theatre company at the Samuel French Short Play 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 for broadcast by the Mini Movie Channel (US, Europe, Russia), PropellerTV (UK) and Ouat Media (Canada).  His feature screenplay BRAIN ON FIRE which he will also direct has been optioned to producer Matthew Myers. He optioned the comedy short JANE HENRY: A TRIBUTE to Peter Farrelly, Charlie Wessler & GreeneStreet Films.  He has also been hired to write screenplays for Buckeye Entertainment-Cabin Creek Films, Andrew Lauren Productions and others.  Screenwriting awards include the Laurel Entertainment Award for Screenwriting Excellence, the New York Picture Company Award for Best Dramatic Screenplay, the Tennessee National Screenwriting Competition, Nicholl Fellowship finalist, Austin Film Festival Screenwriting Competition finalist, and a residency at Yaddo.  He has been a 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 frequent judge for the Script Savvy Screenwriting Competition.
 
Stanley has appeared as a guest writer in The New York Times and Time Out New York, and he 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 was a Copeland Fellow at Amherst College, and teaches at NYU School of Continuing & Professional Studies, NYU Tisch School of the Arts Department of Dramatic Writing, and mediabistro.com.  He has also taught in Croatia at The Imaginary Academy summer film and theatre workshop sponsored by the Soros Foundation.   Stanley holds an MFA from the Dramatic Writing Program at NYU Tisch where he studied under playwright David Ives, and he received his BFA from Tisch in Film & Television Production with a minor in cultural anthropology.



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