Alan Brody

Playwright

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Alan Brody is Professor of Theater at MIT.

His play, Invention for Fathers and Sons, was the first winner of the annual Rosenthal Award at the Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park in 1989. It was subsequently produced at the American Jewish Theater in New York City. The Company of Angels was the recipient of the 1990 Eisner Award from the Streisand Center for Jewish Culture in Los Angeles. It had its world premiere at the New Repertory Theater in Massachusetts in the spring of 1993, and has been produced at the T. Schreiber Studio in New York, and Theater Emory in Atlanta.

The Housewives of Mannheim was cited as the Best Play of 1995 at the Harvest Festival of Plays at the Live Oak Theater in Austin, Texas. It subsequently won the Reva Shiner Award for new plays at the Bloomington Playwrights Project in 2006.

Three of his plays, Five Scenes From Life, Greytop in Love, and OneonOne were developed at the Missouri Repertory Theater. In 1998, Greytop in Love was also staged at the Walnut Street Theater in Philadelphia, starring Kim Hunter.

Mr. Brody is also the author of two novels, Coming To (1973) and Hey Lenny, Hey Jack (1975).

PLAYS

Invention for Fathers and Sons
4M, 3W, Fluid Unit Set
Two men meet. Both are 48. They are father and son who, meeting as men, can retrace four generations of JewishAmerican family life.

The Company of Angels
4M, 3W, Fluid Unit Set
Two men meet. Both are 48. They are father and son who, meeting as men, can retrace four generations of JewishAmerican family life.

The Housewives of Mannheim
4M, 3W, Fluid Unit Set
Two men meet. Both are 48. They are father and son who, meeting as men, can retrace four generations of JewishAmerican family life.

Victory Blues
4M, 3W, Fluid Unit Set
Two men meet. Both are 48. They are father and son who, meeting as men, can retrace four generations of JewishAmerican family life.

Saturday Memories
3M, 4W, 1 Boy (13), 1 Girl (9), One Interior
A memory play structured around the morning and evening of a young man's bar mitzvah. As three generations prepare to celebrate the coming of age of a fourth, all the adults discover they have some growing up of their own to do, as well.

ONEACTS

Eckstein and Sons, 2m
Moses, 1m, 1w
Shivah, 1m, 1w

OTHER PLAYS

The Dog with the Head of the Dragon
Five Scenes From Life
Greytop in Love
Matchpoint
Medea's Nurse
OneonOne
Small Infinities
Reckoning Time (Dramatic Oratorio)