Thomas Bradshaw has been called “one of the most deliberately and effectively confrontational American Playwrights of his generation” by The New York Times. In TV, he served as a Consulting Producer on the Emmy and Peabody award winning Netflix mini-series WHEN THEY SEE US, and has had development deals with HBO/HARPO and FX/PLAN B, among others. His newest play THE SEAGULL/WOODSTOCK, NY premiered off-Broadway at The New Group in 2023 to great acclaim and sold out audiences. It was named one of the top ten plays of 2023 in The Wall Street Journal. His other plays include: INTIMACY and BURNING (The New Group), MARY and CARLYLE (Goodman), FULFILLMENT, JOB, and DAWN (Flea Theater), THE BEREAVED (Crowded Fire, Partial Comfort, and the State Theater of Bielefeld in Germany), THOMAS AND SALLY (Marin Theater Company), PROPHET, PURITY, SOUTHERN PROMISES (P.S. 122), and LECTURE ON THE BLUES (Whitney Museum). He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, the PEN/Laura Pels Theater Award, the Prince Prize, a Foundation for Contemporary Arts award, a Doris Duke Implementation Grant, and a Special Citation of Excellence from The Laurents/Hatcher Foundation. Bradshaw is a Professor and Chair for the Department of Radio/Television/Film at Northwestern University.
Education
- MFA, Playwriting, Brooklyn College
- BA, Theatre and Sociology, Bard College
Recent Awards and Honors
- Prince Charitable Trust Prize, 2010
- Guggenheim Fellowship, 2009