George Brant

George Brant’s plays include Grounded, Elephant’s Graveyard, Marie and Rosetta, The Mourners’ Bench, Into the Breeches!, Salvage, Three Voyages of the Lobotomobile, Any Other Name, Good on Paper, Dark Room and Grizzly Mama.

An Associate Writer at the Playwrights’ Center, his work has been produced internationally by such companies as the Public Theater, the Atlantic Theater, Cleveland Play House, Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, Trinity Repertory Company, Alley Theatre, City Theatre, London’s Gate Theatre, Page 73, Studio Theatre, and Australia’s Red Stitch, among others.

His plays have been generously developed by the Kennedy Center, Asolo Rep, the McCarter Theatre Center, New Harmony Project, Theatre @ Boston Court, Bay Area Playwrights Festival, WordBRIDGE Playwright’s Lab, Playwright and Director Center of Moscow, and the Hangar Theatre.

Brant’s scripts have been awarded a Lucille Lortel Award, an Edgerton Foundation New Play Award, the Kennedy Center’s David Mark Cohen National Playwriting Award, the Smith Prize, the Keene Prize for Literature, an NNPN Rolling World Premiere, A Scotsman Fringe First Award, an Off-West End Theatre Award, three Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Awards, a Creative Workforce Fellowship and the Theatre Netto Festival Grand Prize.

Brant has received writing fellowships from the James A. Michener Center for Writers, the McCarter Theatre Center, the MacDowell Colony, the Hermitage Artist Retreat, the Djerassi Resident Artists Program and the Blue Mountain Center as well as commissions from the Metropolitan Opera, Trinity Repertory, Theatre 4, and Dobama Theatre.

George received his MFA in Writing from the University of Texas at Austin and is a member of the Dramatists Guild. He is published by Samuel French, Oberon Books and Smith & Kraus.