BRAD McENTIRE

Playwright

Member, DFW Playwrights' Alliance ~ Artistic Director and co-founder, Audacity Theatre Productions, Dallas TX ~ Managing Director and founder, Mild Dementia Continuous-Play Variety Hour, Dallas TX ~ C0-Founder of Fun Dip: Artificially-Flavored Comedy, Dallas TX.

updated: November 2006

Production History

Full-Length Plays

Seven Pieces of a Tangram (2006)

· TWU/ Plano Children's Theatre; Plano TX; July 2006 (staged reading)

For the Love of an Anesthesiologist (2004)

· Audacity Productions; Dallas TX; July 2004; Festival of Independent Theatres

· Audacity Productions; Lewisville Texas; June 2000 (excerpt - staged reading)

Red Pajama Blues (1999)

· Audacity Productions; New York NY; Aug 2001; New York International Fringe Festival

· Audacity Productions; Plano TX, Mar 2000 (staged reading)

· Expanded Arts; New York NY; July 1999; 94 Plays in 94 Days Festival

· Reverie Productions; New York NY; Feb 1999 (staged reading)

 

One-Act Plays

Tamping Iron (2004)

· Audacity Productions/Rover Dramawerks; Garland TX, Mar 2004; One Day Only 4 Short Play Festival

On the Way to Galaxapalooza (2004)

· Plano Repertory Theatre/Shepard Elementary PTA; Plano TX, Apr 2004

Clowns Fight to Freedom (2003)

· Plano Repertory Theatre/Shepard Elementary PTA; Plano TX, Nov 2003

Arsenic and Roses (1996)

· Audacity Productions; Flower Mound TX, May 2003; Flower Mound Performing Arts Theatre's First Annual New Works Festival

· Audacity Productions; Lewisville TX, April 2000 (staged reading)

· Weckesser Studio Theatre/College of Santa Fe; Santa Fe NM, Dec 1996

 

Ten-Minute Plays

The History Lesson (2006)

· Audacity Productions; Austin TX; Feb 2006; Frontera Fest: Short-Fringe Official Entry

How I Stopped Smoking (2004)

· Texas Woman's University; Denton TX; March 2006; Original One-Act Series

· Audacity Productions; Dallas TX; October 2004; Mild Dementia Continuous-Play Variety Hour

Cookies & Punch (2001)

· Texas Woman's University; Denton TX; March 2006; Original One-Act Series

· DFW Playwrights' Allinace/ Ground Zero Theatre Company; Dallas TX; May 2004 (staged reading)

· Audacity Productions; Dallas TX, Nov 2002; (excerpt) Mild Dementia Continuous-Play Variety Hour

· Square Peg Theatre Collective; New York NY; Feb 2002 (staged reading)

The Burden of a Light Blue Shirt (2001)

· Audacity Productions; Dallas TX, May 2004; Single Servings: An Evening of Solo Performance Pieces

· Audacity Productions; Austin TX, Jan 2003; Lost/Found/In-Between @ FronteraFest

· Audacity Productions/ProgreXssive Arts; Addison TX, Mar 2002; Mild Dementia Continuous-Play Variety Hour @ Out of the Loop Festival

· Square Peg Theatre Collective; New York NY, Feb 2002 (staged reading)

· Audacity Productions; Carrollton TX, Dec 2001 (staged reading)

The Complete History of Texas From the Very Most Beginning of Time, Abridged (2001)

· RL Turner Theatre HS/Farmers Branch Historical Park; Farmers Branch TX, Mar 2001; Texas Independence Day Celebration

The Best is Yet to Come (2000)

· Audacity Productions; Dallas TX, May 2004; Mild Dementia Continuous-Play Variety Hour

· Audacity Productions; Tulsa OK, Nov 2003; Mild Dementia Continuous-Play Variety Hour

· Audacity Productions; Plano TX, May 2000; One Day Only! Short Play Festival

Rudnick, the Candle-Headed Boy (1996)

· Audacity Productions; Dallas TX, May 2004; Mild Dementia Continuous-Play Variety Hour

· Audacity Productions/ProgreXssive Arts; Garland TX, Dec 2000; The HO! Show

· Estranged Bedfellows Sketch Comedy; Santa Fe NM; Feb 1996

 

One-Page Plays

Unicorns (2001)

· Alleyway Theatre; Buffalo NY, Mar 2004; Buffalo Quickies Short Play Festival

· Audacity Productions/West End Comedy Theatre; Dallas TX, Feb 2004; Mild Dementia Continuous-Play Variety Hour

· Audacity Productions/ProgreXssive Arts; Dec 2001; Mild Dementia Continuous-Play Variety Hour

· Audacity Productions; Austin TX, Oct 2001; More Than Friends @ the Mind Over Money Theatrical Festival

Disney and Nazis (1999)

· No Shame Theatre; Austin TX, Nov 2001

· Audacity Productions; Austin TX, Oct 2001; More Than Friends @ the Mind Over Money Theatrical Festival

 

One-Man Shows

Dribble Funk: Solo Comedy (2005)

· West End Comedy Theatre; Dallas TX, Feb 2005 (partially improvised solo revue)

Notes from a Podium (2004)

· Undermain Theatre; Dallas TX, Aug 2004; Wordspace's Texas UnBound Literary & Performance Series

The Lunatist [And Related Tales of Woe] (2004)

· Single File Chicago Solo Performance Festival; Chicago, IL, October 2004

Cocktails with Caliban (2005)

· yet to be produced…

Adaptations

Rapunzel: A Musical Shadow Puppet Play [from the Bros. Grimm] (2006) With Music By Stuart Grant and Lee Holt

· DEER Theatre; Hong Kong; October 2006

Wizard of Oz [from L. Frank Baum] (2006)

· Plano Childrens Theatre; Plano TX; June 2006

The Tell-Tale Heart [by Edgar Allan Poe] (2004)

· Wooden Spoon Theatre Company; Dallas TX; Oct 2004; Half-Price Books Gallery Space

Treasure Island [by Robert Louis Stevenson] (2005)

· yet to be produced…

Education and Training

· B.F.A. in Theatre & Performance Arts; May 1998; College of Santa Fe NM

· M.A. Candidate, Theatre Arts; Texas Woman's University, Denton TX

· Writing workshops with: C.J. Critt, Rick Ehrstin, Tony Medlin and Greg Romero

 

· References available upon request. Directing & Acting Resumes Also Available

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