George Brant
Writer
George Brant is an award-winning writer for Theatre, Opera, and Film. He is the author of over forty plays, including Grounded (stage play and opera version with music by Jeanine Tesori), Elephant’s Graveyard, Into the Breeches!, The Land of Oz (music by Nathan Motta), The Mourners’ Bench, The Prince of Providence, Tender Age, and Three Voyages of the Lobotomobile. His scripts have been translated into 17 languages and performed in 26 countries by such companies as Public Theater, Metropolitan Opera, Atlantic Theater Company, the Kennedy Center, Page 73, Gate Theatre (London), Traverse Theatre, and Festival d’Avignon.
Brant’s accolades include a Lucille Lortel Award, the Smith Prize, a Scotsman Fringe First Award, an Off-West End Theatre Award, and the Keene Prize for Literature. He has been awarded fellowships from the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, MacDowell Colony, New Harmony Project, Hermitage Artist’s Retreat, and the Michener Center for Writers.
Brant has been commissioned by the Metropolitan Opera, Trinity Repertory Company, Dobama Theatre, the National Theatre of Genoa and Cleveland Play House. He is published by Concord Theatricals, Oberon Books and Smith & Kraus.
Brant is currently developing Rust: A Story of Steel and Grit (based on the book by Eliese Colette Goldbach) for Dobama Theatre, American Centaur for the National Theatre of Genoa and the Opera Mothers of Kherson (music by Maxim Kolomiiets) for the Metropolitan Opera House.