George Brant

George Brant is an award-winning writer for theatre, opera and film. He is the author of over 40 plays, including Grounded (stage play and opera version with music by Jeanine Tesori), Elephant’s Graveyard, Into the Breeches!, Marie and Rosetta, The Prince of Providence (adapted from the book by Mike Stanton), The Mourners’ Bench, The Land of Oz (music by Nathan Motta), Three Voyages of the Lobotomobile, Rust: A Story of Steel and Grit (adapted from the memoir by Eliese Colette Goldbach) as well as Tender Age and Crooked River Burning (both adapted from the novel by Mike Winegardner). His scripts have been translated into 18 languages and performed in 28 countries by such companies as Soho Place (London’s West End), the Public Theater, Atlantic Theater Company, the Kennedy Center, Page 73, Gate Theatre (London), Traverse Theatre (Edinburgh) and the Festival d’Avignon.