George Brant has recently received an MFA in Writing from the James A. Michener Center for Writers in Austin, Texas.  His plays include Any Other Name, Ashes, shop talk, N O K, The Lonesome Hoboes, One Hand Clapping, Terminal One, The Royal Historian of Oz, Lovely Letters, Three Men in a Boat, Borglum! The Mount Rushmore Musical, Tights on a Wire and Night of the Mime. His scripts have been produced in Chicago, New York, Los Angeles and Austin by Circle Theatre, Factory Theater, StreetSigns Theatre Company, Prop Thtr, Atlantis Playmakers, SourceWorks, Hyde Park Theatre, Boomer Productions and Zeppo Theater Company.  His scripts for BixPix Entertainment, a claymation company in Chicago, have aired on the Disney and Toon Disney Channels.  His plays have been workshopped at Trinity Repertory Company and Capitol Hill Arts Center and selected for the Prop Thtr New Play Festival, the Circle New Play Festival and twice for the WordBRIDGE Playwright's Lab.  Most recently, his script Elephant's Graveyard received the David Mark Cohen National Playwriting Award from the Kennedy Center, a citation of "Best New Play" from the Austin Critics' Table, a Playwrights' Center Core Apprentice Workshop, and the Keene Prize for Literature.

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Elephant's Graveyard

Elephant's Graveyard is the true tale of the tragic collision of a struggling circus and a tiny town in Tennessee, which resulted in the only known lynching of an elephant.  Set in September of 1916, the play combines historical fact and legend, exposing the deep-seated American craving for spectacle, violence and revenge. (10M, 3W)

Elephant's Graveyard was awarded the David Mark Cohen National Playwriting Award from the Kennedy Center, a "Best New Play" citation from the Austin Critics' Table, a Playwrights Center Core Apprentice Workshop and the Keene Prize for Literature.

In 2009, it will be produced at the University of Warwick in the UK, Sioux Falls Washington High School in South Dakota, Trustus Theatre in South Carolina, and Balagan Theatre in Seattle.

Any Other Name

A dark comedy (or light tragedy) about identity theft in Victorian England. (3M, 1W)

Any Other Name has been workshopped at Trinity Repertory Company, WordBRIDGE Playwrights Lab, and Shakespeare at Clark Park.  Upcoming productions include Premiere Stages in September of 2009 and Aquinas College in 2010.

Ashes

Inspired by recent grotesque events at a Georgia crematorium, Ashes is a disturbing play about the psychological damage the dead can inflict upon the living.  (2M, 1W)

Ashes was workshopped at Austin ScriptWorks and Trinity Repertory Company.