John Patrick Bray

John Patrick Bray has written plays under grants from The National Endowment for the Arts, the Acadiana Center for the Arts (South Louisiana); and has earned commissions from indie theatre troupes in NYC, Virginia, North Carolina, and Louisiana. His most recent commission was Christmas in the Airwaves, which was written for the Lyric Arts Main St. Theatre in Anoka, Minnesota. His plays have been produced with various festivals in NYC (including the Samuel French Off-Off Broadway Festival, Planet Connections Theatre Festivity, Frigid NY), and at a number of venues in NYC, including The Kraine Theatre, Under St. Marks Theatre, Bowery Poetry Club, and the galapagos art space in Brooklyn. His plays have been developed with/read at The Actors Studio, The Road Theatre, The New School for Drama, The Process Theatre, and the Last Frontier Theatre Conference. His plays are published with Original Works Publishing, Next Stage Press, Indie Theatre Now, JACPublishing, Heartland Plays; and in anthologies published by Applause and Smith and Kraus. A collection of his short plays has been published by Polychoron Press. His play Friendly’s Fire was the Winner of the 2015 Appalachian Festival of Playwrights and Plays and will be produced at the Barter Theatre in 2017. He has also been a finalist for the Ingram New Works Lab and the 2010 Playwriting Residency at the Hangar Theatre. John developed his full-length play Liner Notes into a screenplay with twin brother Gregory; the film, also directed by Gregory, was an Official Selection of the Woodstock Film Festival and the Hoboken International Film Festival (Audience Choice Finalist) and was winner of the B.E.A. Super Regional Conference’s First Place Award for Narrative Films by faculty members. Liner Notes is available on Amazon (dot) com. John has edited an anthology of festival plays, The Best Plays from American Theatre Festivals 2015 for Applause and will co-edit the next volume of The Best American Short Plays with William Demastes. John has a PhD in Theatre from Louisiana State University and an MFA in Playwriting from The Actors Studio Drama School/The New School for Drama. John is an assistant professor at the University of Georgia, a member of The Dramatists’ Guild of America, and he is an Equity Membership Candidate. He serves on the advisory board for Indie Theatre Now and he is the Professional Division Vice-Chair of the Georgia Theatre Conference.