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Thomas Bradshaw
Truth On Stage
Do you want to write characters that behave with absolute honesty and truth? Then this is the class for you.
Psychological Realism mainly consists of characters behaving in an idealized manner which doesn't reflect the world in which we live. This class will focus not on how people should act, but how they actually do. There will be some playwriting exercises. You will also be able to work on a play that you've already written, or use this as an opportunity to generate new material.
ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR
Thomas Bradshaw's newest play, The Bereaved, premiered in New York in September 2009 at The Wild Project, and will be produced at The State Theater of Bielefeld in Germany in January 2010. The Bereaved was named one of the Best Plays of 2009 in Time Out New York. In 2008, two of his plays were premiered: Southern Promises, at Performance Space 122 in September, and Dawn, at The Flea Theater in November, and both were listed among the Best Performances of Stage and Screen for 2008 in The New Yorker. His play entitled Purity was produced at Performance Space 122 in January 2007, and Strom Thurmond Is Not A Racist and Cleansed were produced on a double bill at The Brick Theatre in February of that year. Strom was also produced in Los Angeles in the spring of 2008. Recently his play Mary was presented in a Staged reading at The Goodman Theater and his play Job was presented at The Wilma. He is the recipient of a 2009 Guggenheim Fellowship.
Prophet, Strom Thurmond Is Not A Racist, Cleansed, and Purity are all published by Samuel French, Inc. Dawn and Southern Promises will be published by Samuel French in the fall of 2009. A German translation of Dawn was presented at Theater Bielefeld in Germany in October 2008 and published by Theater Der Zeit in that same month. Purity was published by Theaterheute in Germany in April 2008.
Mr. Bradshaw received his M.F.A. from Mac Wellman's playwriting program and is an Assistant Professor at Medgar Evers College. He has been featured as one of Time Out New York's ten playwrights to watch, as one of Paper Magazine's Beautiful People, and Best Provocative Playwright by the Village Voice. Currently he is a Fellow at The Lark Play Development Center as well as the 2008-2009 Streslin Fellow at Soho Rep, where he has been working on his adaptation of the book of Job, which was workshopped with the Playwrights Foundation at Stanford and Berkeley Rep in spring 2009. He was a Fellow at New York Theater Workshop in 2006-07 and is now a Usual Suspect. He will be the Playwright in Residence at The Soho Theater in London in February 2009.
Thomas Bradshaw is currently under commission from The Goodman Theater, The Flea Theater, Theater Bielefeld (Germany), and Partial Comfort Productions. During his Guggenheim Fellowship term, he will be working in England and Germany on his new play about Queen Charlotte.
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LocationPlaywrights Foundation
1616 16th Street, Suite 350
San Francisco, CA 94103
United States
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Attendees
Name Withheld
SF, CA United States
Apr 04, 2011 10:43 AM |
Name Withheld
San Francisco, CA United States
Mar 31, 2011 6:58 PM |
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Mill Valley, CA United States
Mar 21, 2011 4:56 PM |
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