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Bob Brader

BOB BRADER

  

Nationality:    USA
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Spitting In The Face Of The Devil, Bob's acclaimed monologue, won "Best Show of The London Fringe" from The Beat, Art in London, "Fringe Hit" in The Atlantic Fringe, "Best Script" in The Inaugural United Solo Theatre Festival, NYC, "Pick of the Fringe" in the Victoria Fringe Festival and "Best of the Fest" in The San Francisco Fringe Festival. It was also presented in The 2009 New York International Fringe Festival, where it was picked up for The Garage Theatre Group's SoloFest 2010. It was the featured theatrical event and a crowd favorite, sold-out show in the Inaugural Woodstock Memoir Festival, which was headlined by the McCourt Brothers-Frank, Alphie and Malachy. Previously, Spitting In The Face Of The Devil ran for three months at The Red Room as a Horse Trade co-production and played to a standing room only crowd at The Fletcher Gallery in Woodstock, NY. Bob made his international debut at the London Fringe Festival with his 2nd solo show, Preparation Hex, a hemorrhoid tale and love story, which premiered in the 2nd annual FRIGID New York Festival. Bob played Teddy Roosevelt in Bryan Enk and Matt Gray's supernatural theatrical serial, Penny Dreadful, at The Brick Theater. He was in the original cast of We Call Her Benny, the revival of Sex Ed and played Parker Lyman in the five-month run of BITE with the John Montgomery Theatre Company, for which he serves as Executive Director. Other New York Theatre credits include numerous DMTheatrics' productions: Girls School Vampire, Bitch Macbeth, Who in the Hell is the Real Live Lorelei Lee? and Antony and Cleopatra (Caesar, OOBR Award). Bob trained with the Stella Adler Conservatory at The Tisch School of the Arts and is a member of AFTRA and The Dramatists Guild.

Research:    Member of the Dramatists Guild of America (as at 2015)

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below is a list of Bob Brader's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

        Preparation Hex         Spitting In the Face Of the Devil



Preparation Hex

Synopsis:
Love is not the only ring of fire. This hemorrhoid tale and love story is Bob's comic odyssey to get the girl! Storytelling gold. . . don't miss this alchemist of the anecdote! -- theatre in London. An infectious mix of humor, horror and insight! -- NYtheatre.com. From the multi-award-winning team of Spitting In the Face Of the Devil (Best Script, United Solo 2010).
- nytheatre.com

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1st Produced:
Theatre Row Studio
410 West 42nd Street, New York, NY 10036    21 Oct 2012

Organisations:
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1st Published:
http://www.indietheaternow.com/Play/preparation-hex   -

Music:
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Genre:
one act 60 min

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Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Spitting In the Face Of the Devil

Synopsis:
Robert a. Brader, Sr. died on March 3, 2003. everybody loved him, but nobody knew him. Now his son will reveal what nobody but he knows in Spitting in the Face of the Devil, a highly personal solo show in the vein of Spalding Gray and Mike Daisey. the show is about the death of the author's father, a terrifying and abusive ex-Marine, and their tension-filled relationship, which is contrasted with the love of his supportive mother. the Father harbors a huge secret which will be revealed halfway through the piece; this revelation comes as a gigantic and shocking surprise not only to the author, but also to the audience, who discovers this information along with him.
nytheatre.com

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1st Produced:

Organisations:
John Montgomery Theatre Company

1st Published:
http://www.indietheaternow.com/Play/spitting-in-the-face-of-the-devil   -

Music:
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To Buy This Play:
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Genre:
1h 28m Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

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