Gregory Fletcher is a native of Dallas, Texas, a resident of New York City, a graduate with various theatre degrees from CSUN, Boston University, and Columbia University.
Off-Off Broadway playwriting credits include Edenville, My Sister the Cow, Eight Times Around, Family of Flechner, Hangman, The Moon Alone, Roast Beef and the Rare Kiss, Robert Mapplethorpe’s Flowers, and Stairway to Heaven. Regionally, Fletcher’s plays have been produced in Boston, Miami, Moscow (Idaho), and Provincetown.
Awards include the Mark Twain Prize for Comic Playwriting and the National Ten-Minute Play Award from the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival, and a first runner up for the David Mark Cohen National Playwriting Award from the Association of Theatre in Higher Education. Fletcher was a...
Gregory Fletcher is a native of Dallas, Texas, a resident of New York City, a graduate with various theatre degrees from CSUN, Boston University, and Columbia University.
Off-Off Broadway playwriting credits include Edenville, My Sister the Cow, Eight Times Around, Family of Flechner, Hangman, The Moon Alone, Roast Beef and the Rare Kiss, Robert Mapplethorpe’s Flowers, and Stairway to Heaven. Regionally, Fletcher’s plays have been produced in Boston, Miami, Moscow (Idaho), and Provincetown.
Awards include the Mark Twain Prize for Comic Playwriting and the National Ten-Minute Play Award from the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival, and a first runner up for the David Mark Cohen National Playwriting Award from the Association of Theatre in Higher Education. Fletcher was a playwriting grantee at the Sundance Theatre Lab, a nominee for Outstanding Original Short Script for the New York IT Awards, and a national finalist for the Heideman Award and the Reva Shiner Comedy Award.
Fletcher’s plays have been published by Back Stage Books, Dramatic Publishing, Smith & Kraus, Wilde Magazine, Anco Entertainment in the Netherlands and Belgium. Also, A Playwright's Dozen: 13 short plays, the craft book Shorts and Briefs, a collection of short plays and brief principles of playwriting, the novellas Tom and Huck Sitting in a Tree, and The Never Land Hoax, as well as the YA novels Other People's Crazy and Other People's Drama. Fletcher’s short stories Friends of Vera, and Ismene in Venice are included in the anthologies The Night Bazaar, and The Night Bazaar: Venice (both from Northampton House Press). Published essays include Leave It to Grandma (San Fedele Press, American Writers Review, summer 2021); manhood / ˈmanˌho͝od / noun (Longridge Review, Creative Fiction #4); Thanks, Dad, I Think (Diverse Voices Quarterly, vol. 8, issue 28); The Sealed Envelope (The University of Nebraska-Lincoln Gender Programs in the anthology Being: What Makes A Man).
Fletcher has taught playwriting and other theater education at CUNY-Kingsborough Community College, Niagara University, Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania, and at the MA/MFA Creative Writing Program at Wilkes University.