Jeffrey Stanley

Jeffrey Stanley's semiautobiographical wartime drama TESLA'S LETTERS (Samuel French, 2000) premiered to rave reviews Off Broadway in '99 and went on to international productions including the 2007 Chicago premiere. Other plays include the forthcoming FISHING WITH TONY AND JOE commissioned by The Ensemble Studio Theatre, MEDICINE, MAN commissioned by the Mill Mountain Theatre, and THE GOLDEN HORSESOE: A LECTURE ON TRAGEDY. He also directs theatre, including a New York revival of Sam Shepard's political comedy THE GOD OF HELL in 2007. His comedy screenplay JANE HENRY: A TRIBUTE (cowritten with Jason McNeil), which he will direct, has been optioned to Peter Farrelly/GreeneStreet Films/Charlie Wessler, and his screenplay BRAIN ON FIRE, which he will also direct, has been optioned to producer Matthew Myers. He has also been hired to write screenplays for Cabin Creek Films, Andrew Lauren Productions and other indie producers, and his screenplay MIRABELLE was one of five 2007 Austin Film Festival Screenwriting Competition finalists out of 4000 entries. Stanley has been a resident of artists' colony Yaddo, a Copeland Fellow at Amherst College, a guest lecturer at the Imaginary Academy summer film workshop in Croatia sponsored by the Soros Foundation, and he teaches in the Department of Dramatic Writing at NYU Tisch School of the Arts. He has also appeared as a guest writer in The New York Times and Time Out New York, and he was a senior advisor to Boston University's Center for Millennial Studies' book THE END THAT DOES (Equinox Books, 2006). Stanley holds an MFA from the Dramatic Writing Program at Tisch where he studied under playwright David Ives, and a BFA from Tisch in Film & Television Production. He is president of the board of directors of the NEW YORK NEO-FUTURISTS (nynf.org).