Stuart Warmflash

Stuart Warmflash

STUART WARMFLASH

A native New Yorker, Mr. Warmflash has been involved in the theatre for over thirty years. After graduating N.Y.U. he attended the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama in London. He then enjoyed a successful acting career appearing on Broadway (with the prestigious Phoenix Repertory Co.) and off-Broadway, as well as in film and television. He subsequently began writing and...
STUART WARMFLASH

A native New Yorker, Mr. Warmflash has been involved in the theatre for over thirty years. After graduating N.Y.U. he attended the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama in London. He then enjoyed a successful acting career appearing on Broadway (with the prestigious Phoenix Repertory Co.) and off-Broadway, as well as in film and television. He subsequently began writing and directing.

His first play, Art’s Life enjoyed an extended run on Theatre Row and his almost two dozen subsequent plays have been read/performed all over the United States and Europe.

In 1994 he founded the Playwrights Harbor to provide a supportive, self-directed, cooperative workshop for writers to realize their visions with the assistance of a company of actors and directors. Fortified by artistic growth and enthusiastic public response, he launched the not-for-profit Harbor Theatre. Through weekly workshops the company contributed to the ongoing development of over 50 new works, producing public presentations and full productions. Currently, the company is on hiatus.

Besides a production of The Mask of the Jaguar King this past spring, he is currently planning public presentations for two new works, Crush the Serpent, and Mortar and Pestle.

He has also written for television and scripted the theatrically-released, award-winning, full length documentary, Unforgotten: 25 Years After Willowbrook.

In his “spare” time Mr. Warmflash received a Masters in Special Education and now devotes several hours a day to assisting students with learning disabilities.

For additional information: www.warmflash.com

Plays

  • Hammer and Train
    With the 1949 racial riots in Peekskill, NY over a Paul Robeson concert as a backdrop, the play is narrated by Blue, an elderly Black, retired, railroad porter and singer and guitar player, as he recounts the story of his quasi, step-grandson, Heck, a young Black, promising NYC boxer and his relationship with Sara, a White, Jewish, Barnard college socialist. Concurrently, there are episodes of Rick, a White,...
    With the 1949 racial riots in Peekskill, NY over a Paul Robeson concert as a backdrop, the play is narrated by Blue, an elderly Black, retired, railroad porter and singer and guitar player, as he recounts the story of his quasi, step-grandson, Heck, a young Black, promising NYC boxer and his relationship with Sara, a White, Jewish, Barnard college socialist. Concurrently, there are episodes of Rick, a White, blue-collar, Peekskill baseball pitcher hoping to sign professionally and his anxious, pregnant wife, Christine. Many of the characters embody members of the public from both NYC and Peekskill who reflect diverse socio-economic and political attitudes of the time period. When the couples confront each other shortly after the riot, the brewing conflict explodes. fight



  • Mortar and Pestle
    When a faithless, Jewish widower from NYC meets a mid-western convert to Judaism…
  • Crush The Serpent
    Adischarged Afghan vet with a homeland mission leads a blacklisted journalist on a bizarre journey in a hot-off-the-press story of intrigue and betrayal. Where politics meets family values.
  • The Mask of the Jaguar King
    A two-character, one set play steeped in religious mystery, menace, sexual heat and hope that pits the politics of imperialism against desires of the heart.

    An American archaeologist finds herself stranded at the site of a Mayan Temple with a dangerous revolutionary intent on stealing priceless artifacts.

    As they slowly unmask each other's dark personal secrets it remains...
    A two-character, one set play steeped in religious mystery, menace, sexual heat and hope that pits the politics of imperialism against desires of the heart.

    An American archaeologist finds herself stranded at the site of a Mayan Temple with a dangerous revolutionary intent on stealing priceless artifacts.

    As they slowly unmask each other's dark personal secrets it remains unclear, who is the real outlaw? To whom does history belong? And does the value of preserving the past justify the injustices of the present?
  • Pictures with a Naked Camera
    A highly theatrical play about a young woman who, in 1955, contracts polio and is forced to redefine herself
  • Shortly After Takeoff
    During the leaderless 60's a fatherless teen struggles to escape the chaos of his suburban family via an artistic vision.
  • Together Tulane
    At a band's 25th reunion to record their one hit, their lead singer (who's on a quest for an extinct bird) fights to re-define their commitments, confront long-kept secrets and settle a love triangle.
  • Owning the Knuckleball
    Led on a journey of Native American mysticism a man becomes a baseball legend and, amid universal adoration, loses sight of his own family.
  • Heart Timers
    Two resilient Jersey girls struggle to define their emerging political and sexual identities during the five years after high school.
  • The Czar of Nothingness
    A young waif tricks an elderly widower into learning how to forgive his transgressions and begin anew
  • Bizet's Locket
    Searching in France for her birth parents, a woman begins a fiery relationship with a French Resistance leader who may be concealing a criminal past.
  • A Map and a Cap
    The son of a Holocaust survivor battles with the ghost of his father
  • Art's Life
    Painter Arthur Nash comes of age in a Soho loft during changing economic times.
  • Lost at Sea
    Stranded on a yacht deep in the Bermuda Triangle, a wealthy couple is befriended by an "alternative life-style" couple on a sailboat.
  • Six Inch Adjustable
    Two adolescent brothers battle over a motorcycle engine, their crumbing family, and each other
  • Car-Nil Knowledge
    A comic triangle involving a man, a woman, and a hot car.
  • Tyler's Theory of Love
    A chance meeting, a student's atomic thesis and a love triangle
  • A Plague of Little Miracles
    An artist struggles with her choice of a corporate raider or her former bohemian lover.
  • Tea Among the Tamaracks
    Siblings confront each other over placing their paralyzed father in a nursing home.
  • Grace
    The last hours of a politically powerful millionaire and his emotional legacy.
  • Clean Sweep
    One man's superhuman effort to clean up the streets of NYC...and find love.