WHO
The cast
for the Southwest
premiere at Theatre Three Dallas in 2005 included Scott
Latham
as Calvin, R. Bruce Elliott as
Swimmer, Kerry Cole as
Dr.
Sue Morrison, Diane Worman as
Tracy, Leslie Patrick as
Alabama
and Dan Nolen, Jr. as Preacher
Bobby, directed by Terry Dobson.
The cast
for the world
premiere at Virginia's Mill Mountain Theatre in 2003 included Sean Hayden as Calvin, Bev Appleton as
Swimmer, Janelle Schremmer as
Dr.
Sue Morrison, Sarah Yorra as
Tracy, Sarah Dandridge as
Alabama
and George C. Hosmer as
Preacher
Bobby, directed by Jere Lee Hodgin.
Jeffrey Stanley's
semiautobiographical wartime drama Tesla's Letters
(Samuel French, 2000)
premiered to rave reviews Off Broadway at The Ensemble Studio Theatre
and went on to
international productions including the 2007 Chicago premiere. Other plays include Fishing With Tony and
Joe commissioned by The Ensemble Studio Theatre, and his
autobiographical comedy show The Golden Horseshoe: A
Lecture on Tragedy. He also directs,
including a racially reimagined New York revival of Sam Shepard's
political comedy The
God of
Hell in 2007 as part of The Big Little Theatre's acclaimed
two-seaon Sam Shepard Festival. His
award-winning short film Lady
in a Box starring Sarita Choudhury has been licensed five times for
international
broadcast and distribution. He has won numerous screenwriting awards
and has been hired to write screenplays for Peter Farrelly-Charles
Wessler-GreeneStreet Films, Cabin Creek Films, Andrew
Lauren Productions and other
indie
producers. Stanley
has been a resident of Yaddo, a Copeland Fellow at Amherst College, and
a guest
lecturer at
the Imaginary Academy film and theatre
workshop in Croatia sponsored by the Soros Foundation.
He has also appeared as a
guest writer in The New York Times and Time
Out New York, and he was a senior advisor to Boston
University's
Center for Millennial Studies' book on apocalypse movements The End That
Does (Equinox Books, 2006). Stanley holds an MFA from
the
Dramatic Writing Program at New York University Tisch School of the
Arts where he studied under playwright
David Ives,
and a BFA from Tisch in Film & Television Production. He
regularly teaches
in the
Department of Dramatic Writing at Tisch and at New York University
School of Continuing and Professional Studies.