Jeffrey Stanley

Jeffrey Stanley's play TESLA'S LETTERS (Samuel French, 2000) premiered to rave reviews Off Broadway at the Ensemble Studio Theatre in 1999 and went on to national and international productions including the Edinburgh Fringe and most recently a Chicago premiere. Other plays include MEDICINE, MAN commissioned by the Mill Mountain Theatre in Virginia and most recently produced at Theatre 3 Dallas, and BEAUTIFUL ZION: A BOOK OF THE DEAD which premiered in the 2011 Philly Fringe. He is a 2011-12 PDC Playwright-in-Residence at Plays & Players Theatre in Philadelphia. Stanley teaches playwriting, screenwriting, and script analysis courses at New York University Tisch School of the Arts and at Drexel University Westphal College of Media Arts & Design. He is a past president of the board of directors of the New York Neo-Futurists. Stanley has been a resident of Yaddo, a Copeland Fellow at Amherst College, and a guest lecturer at the Imaginary Academy summer theatre and film workshop in Croatia sponsored by the Soros Foundation. He has appeared as a guest writer in The New York Times, New York Press and Time Out New York, and he was a senior advisor to Boston University's Center for Millennial Studies' book on apocalypse movements THE END THAT DOES (Equinox Books, 2006). Stanley holds an MFA in Dramatic Writing from NYU Tisch where he studied under playwright David Ives, and a BFA from Tisch in Film & Television Production.