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     Jeffrey Stanley is a playwright, performance artist, director, screenwriter, filmmaker, essayist, podcaster, and 2022-24 Fulbright Alumni Ambassador. He was a 2018-19 Fulbright-Nehru Scholar in India where he researched early 20th century Bengali theatre and film and their impact on India's nascent independence movement. He teaches undergraduate playwriting, screenwriting, theatre history and script analysis courses at New York University Tisch School of the Arts and Drexel University Westphal College of Media Arts & Design. Stanley's stage play Tesla's Letters (Concord Theatricals, 2000) premiered to rave reviews Off Broadway in 1999 and went on to national and international productions including the Edinburgh Fringe. He is a past president of the board of directors of the New York Neo-Futurists experimental theatre ensemble, he has been a fellow at Yaddo, a Copeland Fellow at Amherst College, and a guest screenwriting lecturer at the Imaginary Academy summer film and theatre workshop in Croatia sponsored by the Soros Foundation. He has won numerous screenwriting awards and has optioned or been hired to write scripts for Peter Farrelly & Charles B. Wessler, GreeneStreet Films, Barbara Kopple's Cabin Creek Films, Andrew Lauren Productions, and others. His award-winning short film Lady in a Box starring Sarita Choudhury, which started as a short play, has been licensed numerous times for international broadcast and distribution. He has worked as a script consultant for UK-based Initialize Films and an analyst and judge for the Script Savvy Screenplay Contest. He was one of 24 writers chosen from over 16,000 entrants for the first Amtrak Writers Residency and later served as a residency playwriting judge. Stanley has appeared as a guest writer in the Washington Post, New York Times, Time Out New York, New York Press, Brooklyn Rail, Contingent Magazine and the peer-reviewed scholarly journals Race & Class and Democratic Communique, and he was a senior editorial adviser to Boston University's Center for Millennial Studies' book on apocalypse movements The End That Does (Routledge Books, 2006). He is a member playwright of the invitation-only International Theatre Initiative (ITI), a UNESCO-sponsored world theatre education program. He holds an MFA in Dramatic Writing from New York University Tisch School of the Arts where he studied under playwrights Tina Howe, David Ives and Tony Kushner, and a BFA from Tisch in Film & Television Production with a minor in Cultural Anthropology. He has taught a course he created, Theatre History for Actors, at the Lee Strasberg Theatre & Film Institute.  Reviews, Features, Guest Writer and Media Appearances
Awards and Honors Fulbright Research Scholar Fulbright Alumni Ambassador Amtrak Residency for Writers PDC Playwright-in-Residence, Plays & Players Theatre, Philadelphia Laurel Entertainment Award for Screenwriting Excellence (The Objectors) Tennessee National Screenwriting Competition (The Objectors) Nicholl Fellowship Finalist (The Objectors) $20,000 Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Prize (Lords of Light) New York Picture Company Award for Best Dramatic Screenplay (Lords of Light) Nuyorican Poets Cafe Fifth Night Series reading (Lords of Light) Graduate Achievement Award (MFA; Goldberg Department of Dramatic Writing, NYU Tisch School of the Arts) Helena Rubenstein Scholarship Award (BFA; Film & Television Production; NYU Tisch School of the Arts) Residency at Yaddo Production Grant from EST-Alfred P. Sloan Foundation First Light Program (Tesla's Letters) Tesla's Letters named one of the Ten Best Dramas of 1999 in Samuel French's 2000 Catalog of Plays for the New Millennium Copeland Fellowship at Amherst College AIVF-BVR Get It Made Award (Lady in a Box) Commission from EST-Sloan First Light Program (Fishing With Tony and Joe) Commission from the Mill Mountain Theatre & the Norfolk-Southern Foundation (Medicine, Man) Austin Film Festival Screenwriting Competition Finalist (Mirabelle) LA International Film Festival Screenwriting Competition, 3rd Place (Brain On Fire) Unless otherwise noted, all photos, icons, text and other content on this site are by brain-on-fire.com. All rights reserved. contact: info [at] brain-on-fire [dot] com
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