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Jeffrey Stanley

JEFFREY STANLEY  (1967 - )

 Nationality:    USA
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Jeffrey Stanley has written a number of stage plays and screenplays. His semiautobiographical wartime drama TESLA'S LETTERS premiered Off Broadway at The Ensemble Studio Theatre in 1999, directed by Curt Dempster and funded by a grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and has gone on to numerous productions and readings around the world. His southern-fried dark comedy about NASCAR and medical ethics MEDICINE, MAN was commissioned by Virginia's Mill Mountain Theatre and world premiered there in 2003, followed by a Southwest premiere at Theatre Three Dallas. He most recently wrote and directed the award-winning short film LADY IN A BOX starring Sarita Choudhury. Stanley currently teaches theatre and film writing at his alma mater, New York University Tisch in the Arts

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

 Golden Horseshoe, The: A Lecture on Tragedy         Medicine, Man         Tesla's Letters

Golden Horseshoe, The: A Lecture on Tragedy

Synopsis:
In this autobiographical comedic monologue disguised as a lecture on Greek tragedy, "Professor" Stanley uses country music, DNA tests, courtroom transcripts and letters to resurrect a family skeleton and take the audience through "an existential tunnel of country music terror." His Teaching Assistant shares the stage with him to hand out quizzes, sing backup, and to emote on Stanley's behalf, while in the audience near the stage sits Stanley's apparent Ex-wife, a mysterious veiled woman in black who listens and knits throughout the show.

Notes:
http://www.brain-on-fire.com/horseshoe. Originally performed At The Gershwin Hotel's "Live From the Living Room" performance Art series before moving to Don't Tell Mama where it was shot by documentary filmmaker David Gaynes And released on DVD As "An Evening At the Golden Horseshoe."

1st Produced:
The Gershwin Hotel, New York, NY    2004

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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  Fiddler in Black

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Medicine, Man

Synopsis:
In an Appalachian hospital a NASCAR obsessed, beer swilling machinist must take on physicians, family, and a Cherokee shaman in order to keep his mother on this side of eternity. A dark comedy with an element of magic realism and a touch of the absurd.

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http://www.brain-on-fire.com/medicine-man

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Custom Books, ISBN 14348040433, http://www.createspace.com/3335616,    -

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Genre:
Comedy

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Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Tesla's Letters

Synopsis:
In this wartime drama set in the Balkans 1997, an American graduate student sets out to find evidence of forgotten scientist Nikola Tesla's doomsday device only to discover that a machine is not required.

Notes:
http://www.brain-on-fire.com/teslasletters

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Samuel French, Inc., NY, 2000   -

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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