Jeffrey Stanley

Who is Jeffrey Stanley?

Jeffrey Stanley is a playwright born in Roanoke, Virginia. He began writing in elementary school, and graduated from New York University Tisch School of the Arts Undergraduate Film Program and Graduate Dramatic Writing Program. He was also a guest at Yaddo and a Copeland Fellow at Amherst College.

His first success came with the play Tesla's Letters, a semi-autobiographical wartime drama set in the Balkans just before the Kosovo crisis, produced Off Broadway at the Ensemble Studio Theatre. The cast included Victor Slezak and Judith Roberts. The play went on to many other productions and public readings around the world.

That was followed by Medicine, Man, a dark comedy inspired by his grandmother's death in an Appalachian hospital. The play was commissioned by and premiered at the Mill Mountain Theatre in Stanley's hometown and featured Janelle Schremmer, Bev Appleton and George C. Hosmer. His autobiographical comic monologue Beautiful Zion: A Book of the Dead premiered in the 2011 Philly Fringe Festival. He was a 2011-12 playwright-in-residence at Philadelphia's Plays and Players Theatre.