Jay Stull

Jay Stull

Jay is a playwright, director, and teacher. He is a 2022 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellow in Playwriting. His plays include: THE SINGULARITY PLAY (Finalist for the Alliance/Kendeda National Graduate Playwriting Competition, Finalist for the Princess Grace Award; Finalist for Playwright’s Week at The Lark), UNDONE (Winner of Columbia@Roundabout Prize, developmental reading at The Roundabout), ANTARABHAVA (Barn Arts...
Jay is a playwright, director, and teacher. He is a 2022 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellow in Playwriting. His plays include: THE SINGULARITY PLAY (Finalist for the Alliance/Kendeda National Graduate Playwriting Competition, Finalist for the Princess Grace Award; Finalist for Playwright’s Week at The Lark), UNDONE (Winner of Columbia@Roundabout Prize, developmental reading at The Roundabout), ANTARABHAVA (Barn Arts Residency), STREEPSHOW! (produced by The Tank at The Connelly Theater; Ars Nova’s ANTFest; Dixon Place’s HOT! Fest), 6 Mo @ NH (co-written with EllaRose Chary; The Civilians, Joe's Pub at The Public Theater; ArtLab at Harvard College), and THE CAPABLES (Anna Sosenko Trust Assist Grant; produced by the Gym at Judson and the Bloomington Playwrights Project).

Directing credits include: Jenny Schwartz’s AS FAR AS THE DAY GOES (Clubbed Thumb Winterworks), Emily Schwend's UTILITY (The Amoralists at Rattlestick, NY Times Critic's Pick, NYIT Award for Best Production of a New Play) and TAKE ME BACK (Walkerspace, NY Times Critic's Pick), Noah Mease's OMEGA KIDS (New Light Theater Project at The Access Theater and Dixon Place), Anne Adams’s STRANGE COUNTRY (New Light Theater Project at The Access Theater), and Mark Roberts's RANTOUL AND DIE (The Amoralists at The Cherry Lane, NY Times and Time Out Critics’ Picks).

He is a member of the Lincoln Center Directors Lab, and was a member of The Civilians R&D Group, Fresh Ground Pepper's Playground Play Group, the SDCF Observership Class and was a Directing Fellow in the Clubbed Thumb Early Career Directing Fellowship. In the fall of 2020, he was an artist-in-residence and visiting professor in the Theater, Dance, and Media concentration at Harvard College and will be again in the spring of 2023. MFA: Columbia.

Plays

  • The Singularity Play by Jay Stull
    Recommendations: 4
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    Cast: 
    9–10
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    Genre: comedy, drama + 3 more
    Genre: comedy, drama, experimental, horror, science fiction
    ​In an unused room at the Google offices in Manhattan, a theater troupe has gathered to rehearse a new play written by an advanced AI named "Denise." In an art that relies so substantially upon our human-ness, what does it mean to cede the stage to artificial intelligence? Who are we when reflected by the intelligence we’ve created?
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Recommended by Jay Stull

  • This time by Brian Dang
    9 Dec. 2021
    “ Extraordinary. Elemental. An absolute gift of a text to a director worthy of it. Brian's language and theatricality in This time is as strong as their sense of setting, rhythm, and space. A viscous meditation on femme time and femme power, This time dances with history while obliterating chronology. ”
  • Culture Night by Amanda L. Andrei
    9 Dec. 2021
    “ Culture Night is a gorgeous meditation on inheritance and the conduits among our identity, the performance of our identity, and our ancestors. One part classic romance, one part haunting, and one part traditional dance, Culture Night exhibits a sharp theatricality and a powerful invitation to any cultural night presenters out there to integrate Amanda's brilliant play with the traditional dance program. ”
  • Camp Mannuppia: An Alt-Masc Comedy by John Bavoso
    9 Dec. 2021
    “ Gut-achingly funny, sharply observed, and marvelously accessible. All theaters should produce this play, a high-water mark of craft, humor, talent, and sensitivity. Rollicking, meta-theatrical, and effervescent, Camp Mannuppia is, perhaps above all else, wildly ENTERTAINING. When playwrights go hoarse shouting to theaters about the talent that exists in our midst, about the plays ready for production that would grow (and thrill) a theater's audience, John's play is exactly what we're shouting about. ”