HONORS / AWARDS
Semi-Finalist: Future of Playwriting Prize Blank Theatre & UCross 2021
The End of the World (And Other Small Tragedies)
Finalist: Jewish Playwriting Contest Jewish Plays Project 2020
Something’s Coming
Finalist: Walks of Life Blindspot Collective & La Jolla Playhouse 2020
Non-Contact
Second Round Winner: Teleplay Competition Austin Film Festival 2020
Splash!
SELECTED FULL-LENGTH PLAYS
Something’s Coming
National Tour: Jewish Plays Project, 2020 (Dir. Aaron Simon Gross)
Staged Reading: Studio Theatre at Tierra Del Sol, 2019 (Dir. Roberta Emerson)
Developmental Reading: Florida Studio Theatre, 2019
Workshop: Literacy Theatre, 2018 (Dir. J. Andrew Norris)
Service Industry
Zoom Reading: Walking Shadow Readers Theatre, 2021
Good Friends
Commissioned Production: NW Guilford High School, 2022 (dir. Will Stapleton)
SELECTED ONE-ACT PLAYS
Run. Hide. Fight
Production: Passaic Preparatory Academy, 2021 (Dir. Daphne Anderson)
* Winner: Special Innovation Award & Best Ensemble, New Jersey Thespians *
Noise: A Teenage Panic Attack on National Themes
Production: Montverde Academy, 2020 (Dir. Roberta Emerson)
* Winner: Straight Superiors & Top Honors, Florida State Thespians *
SELECTED CREDITS FOR EZRA BRAIN
Company Member & Associate Artistic Director: This Is Not A Theatre Company (2018-2021)
Selected Credits as Playwright:
Girl: A Gender Expression
Staged Reading: New Play Cafe, 2022
Workshop Production: Stay True Theatre, 2021 (Dir. Drewe Goldstein)
Selected Publications
Podcasts and Zooms and Plays, Oh My! - Howlround 2022
Towards a Marxist Theatre - Howlround 2021
Bertolt Brecht and Marxist Art - Left Voice Magazine 2021
Notes on Making Theatre in the Dark - Howlround 2019
Towards a Queer Reclamation - Howlround 2019
SELECTED CREDITS FOR J. ANDREW NORRIS
Artistic and Directing Fellow: Florida Studio Theatre (2018-2020)
Company Member: Literacy Theatre (2016-2018)
Featured Pianist: FST Improv (dir. Will Luera, 2019-2020)
Selected Credits as Playwright:
On The Road Again! (with Caroline Kaiser)
Production: Florida Studio Theatre, 2021 (Dir. Caroline Kaiser)
Prodigal Son: A New Musical (Music and Lyrics by Rosie Webber, Book by J. Andrew Norris)
I never imagined losing my mind was going to be such hard work. ― Tony Kushner, Angels in America