Robert Alexander Wray

Robert Alexander Wray

Robert Alexander Wray is a graduate of the Iowa Playwrights Workshop where he was awarded both the Norman Felton and Zeta Phi Eta Memorial Scholarship. He's also won the Marc A. Klein Playwriting Award, the Slam! Theatre Festival (NYC), and been a finalist for numerous prizes, including the Heideman. His work has been performed at the Eldred Theatre, Live Arts, Four County Players, The Barrow Group, The...
Robert Alexander Wray is a graduate of the Iowa Playwrights Workshop where he was awarded both the Norman Felton and Zeta Phi Eta Memorial Scholarship. He's also won the Marc A. Klein Playwriting Award, the Slam! Theatre Festival (NYC), and been a finalist for numerous prizes, including the Heideman. His work has been performed at the Eldred Theatre, Live Arts, Four County Players, The Barrow Group, The Actors Studio, New Circle Theatre Company, Westbank, Torn Page, Moscow Theatre Festival, and Brighton Fringe. He's a member of the New Circle Theatre Company, and is based in beautiful Charlottesville, Virginia. He's also a fine judge of Single Barrel Bourbon. "But if the arrow is straight/And the point is slick/It can pierce through dust no matter how thick"--Bob Dylan



Plays

  • Melancholy Echo by Robert Alexander Wray
    Recommendations: 4
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    Cast: 
    3
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    Genre: adventure, comedy + 13 more
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    Keyword: King Lear, Hope + 7 more
    Genre: adventure, comedy, dark comedy, drama, experimental, fable/folktale, faith-based, fantasy, immersive, movement/physical, mystery/thriller, political, romantic comedy, tragedy, verse
    Keyword: King Lear, Hope, religion, Shakespeare, plague, bittersweet love story, salvation, magical realism, justice
    (Long One Act) A dark surreal comedy which explores a pastor's quest to map the inner workings of his mind after quitting the church. Along the way, the mythic story of the Phoenix and Dove unfolds, a tale that inexorably melds with the pastor's own.
  • Ground Streaming Blood by Robert Alexander Wray
    Cast: 
    12
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    Genre: adaptation, adventure + 8 more
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    Keyword: justice, inspired by Shakespeare + 8 more
    Genre: adaptation, adventure, comedy, dark comedy, drama, experimental, movement/physical, political, tragedy, verse
    Keyword: justice, inspired by Shakespeare, complex female lead, contemporary social issues, absurd comedy, great roles for female actors, making choices, Classic Literature, Gay and LGBTQ, college students
    (Full Length) This tongue in cheek continuation of Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida tells the story of the Trojan War from the downfall of Hector to the letting in of the infamous Trojan Horse. It's a chronicle of gods and goddesses, conflicted warriors, and powerful legendary women, all driven by the question: Why do we make choices that go against our own best interests?
  • Bullet for Unaccompanied Heart by Robert Alexander Wray
    Cast: 
    3
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    Genre: adventure, comedy + 8 more
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    Keyword: isolation, identity + 7 more
    Genre: adventure, comedy, dark comedy, experimental, fable/folktale, fantasy, immersive, musical, mystery/thriller, tragedy
    Keyword: isolation, identity, ghosts, death, The Blues, crossword puzzles, suicide, Ancient Greek Myth, contemporary mystery
    (Full Length) Part blues song, part crossword puzzle, part exegesis on Ovid, a musician, Dugan McBane, gets taken hostage by the ghost of his former lover, Anya Edlund, an otherworldly punk rock princess. Dugan’s release hinges on one thing: an apology.
  • All is Always Now by Robert Alexander Wray
    Cast: 
    4
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy + 2 more
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    Keyword: Shakespeare, actors + 8 more
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy, drama, romantic comedy
    Keyword: Shakespeare, actors, writers, female empowerment, female writers, friendship, theatre, New York City, Bob Dylan, Hamlet
    (Full Length) All of us play roles in our lives, but few play them as relentlessly, or desperately, as Lowell, Harold, Weldon, and Margot, four longtime actor friends who gather together for a final farewell in New York City.
  • Ocean View Odyssey by Robert Alexander Wray
    Cast: 
    6
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    Genre: adventure, biography + 6 more
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    Keyword: hopeful, women + 8 more
    Genre: adventure, biography, dark comedy, docudrama/historic, drama, period, political, tragedy
    Keyword: hopeful, women, memory, American Family, a war story, Homer, cost of mental health, American South, Vietnam Veteran, democracy
    (Full Length) Riffing on Homer's "The Odyssey," the story follows Henry Byers, a young New York lawyer who, in a state of crisis, travels back to his home in Ocean View, Virginia in order to find his long estranged father and heal wounds from the past.
  • The Portable Casey Horn by Robert Alexander Wray
    Cast: 
    5
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy + 3 more
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    Keyword: justice, coming of age + 8 more
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy, drama, political, tragedy
    Keyword: justice, coming of age, metoo, sexual harassment, abuse of power, film, Audrey Hepburn, Star Wars memorabilia, death of a young person, children
    (Full Length) A dark coming-of-age story about Casey Horn, a young boy dealing with a sickly “Star Wars” obsessed brother, a girl next door who won’t give him the time of day, and a mother with a Holly Golightly psychosis who always falls for Mr. Wrong.
  • Savage Variations by Robert Alexander Wray
    Cast: 
    2
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    Genre: dark comedy, experimental + 4 more
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    Keyword: experimental, dark comedy + 8 more
    Genre: dark comedy, experimental, fable/folktale, immersive, movement/physical, tragedy
    Keyword: experimental, dark comedy, feminism, Sex, Fantasy, sexual objectification, BDSM, based on Shakespeare, abortion, empowered woman
    (Full Length) Lena and Owen meet cute but part deadly in a surreal time-bending tale about the costs of intimacy and desire.
  • Pelicans by Robert Alexander Wray
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    1
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    Genre: dark comedy, fantasy + 1 more
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    Keyword: audition monologue, ghosts of the past + 3 more
    Genre: dark comedy, fantasy, immersive
    Keyword: audition monologue, ghosts of the past, the sea, David Bowie, A woman's role
    (Monologue) A girl reminisces about someone she once loved and comes to a bittersweet realization.
  • Autumn Tale by Robert Alexander Wray
    Cast: 
    1
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    Genre: dark comedy, horror + 1 more
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    Keyword: audition monologue, current events + 3 more
    Genre: dark comedy, horror, mystery/thriller
    Keyword: audition monologue, current events, weather, Politics, coming to terms with death
    (Monologue) On a beautiful fall day, Jess is confronted by the unimaginable.
  • Because I Burn (Self-Portrait) by Robert Alexander Wray
    Cast: 
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    Genre: biography, comedy + 3 more
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    Keyword: Bob Dylan, Shakespeare + 3 more
    Genre: biography, comedy, dark comedy, experimental, fable/folktale
    Keyword: Bob Dylan, Shakespeare, mythology, computers, Plays about writing
    (Monologue) The life story of a very strange character, abridged.
  • White Trash Wonderland by Robert Alexander Wray
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    2
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy + 1 more
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    Keyword: rural poverty, mother/son relationships + 1 more
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy, faith-based
    Keyword: rural poverty, mother/son relationships, love of dogs.
    (Short Play) Wade needs a favor from his mom before he goes to court to answer for something he may or may not have done.
  • CloudLogic by Robert Alexander Wray
    Cast: 
    3
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy + 1 more
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    Keyword: women, all female cast + 3 more
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy, political
    Keyword: women, all female cast, family, mountain, environment
    (Short Play) Three sisters gather on a mountain overlook and bond over their lives until one of them reveals a shattering secret.
  • An Immodest Proposal by Robert Alexander Wray
    Cast: 
    2
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    Genre: comedy, romantic comedy
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    Keyword: loneliness, broken heart
    Genre: comedy, romantic comedy
    Keyword: loneliness, broken heart
    (Short Play) Alex and Kris, two of the loneliest people on the planet, meet in a bar and make an unusual agreement.
  • Sam's Lament by Robert Alexander Wray
    Cast: 
    3
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy + 3 more
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    Keyword: mystery, black cowboys + 3 more
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy, experimental, fable/folktale, mystery/thriller
    Keyword: mystery, black cowboys, purgatory, seduction, sexual desire
    (Short Play) Sam, Clem and Leonora are imprisoned on a purgatorial ghost train from which they struggle to escape.
  • A Likely Story by Robert Alexander Wray
    Cast: 
    4
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy + 3 more
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    Keyword: identity, experimental + 3 more
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy, experimental, immersive, mystery/thriller
    Keyword: identity, experimental, awkward sexuality, guns, crime
    (Short Play) A meta-theatrical crime of passion story that ends with a murder mystery...or does it?
  • Strip to Black by Robert Alexander Wray
    Cast: 
    2
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy + 2 more
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    Keyword: all female cast, Classic Rock + 3 more
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy, immersive, movement/physical
    Keyword: all female cast, Classic Rock, dance, Stripper, 10 minute comedy
    (Short Play) Two dancers at a strip club, Sandy and Denise, dish it out in between sets.