Robert Alexander Wray

Robert Alexander Wray

Robert Alexander Wray likes making things and figuring it all out later. He's 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/semifinalist for numerous competitions, including the Heideman, Red Bull Theater Short New...
Robert Alexander Wray likes making things and figuring it all out later. He's 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/semifinalist for numerous competitions, including the Heideman, Red Bull Theater Short New Play Festival, and the Eugene O'Neill National Playwrights Conference. His work has been performed at the Eldred Theatre, Live Arts, Four County Players, The Barrow Group, Naked Angels, The Actors Studio, New Circle Theatre Company, Westbank, Torn Page, the Moscow Theatre Festival and the Brighton Fringe. He's a member of the New Circle Theatre Company and lives in central Virginia.

Plays

  • Looking Glass Elegy by Robert Alexander Wray
    Recommendations: 2
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    Cast: 
    1
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    Genre: dark comedy, experimental + 2 more
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    Keyword: coming to terms with loss, art as healing + 6 more
    Genre: dark comedy, experimental, immersive, movement/physical
    Keyword: coming to terms with loss, art as healing, A Play for One Actor, dance, motherhood, confessional poetry, accepting death, film
    (One Person Play) The adventures of a film location scout trying to make sense of existence, plus other matters.
  • Melancholy Echo by Robert Alexander Wray
    Recommendations: 5
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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
    (Full Length) A pastor, having just quit the church, embarks on a surreal pilgrimage whereupon he discovers a mysterious notebook filled with story fragments. Determined to turn these fragments into a seamless whole, he attempts to write a narrative of his own devising, but the original authors, a pair of lovers known only as Phoenix and Dove, have the final say.
  • Ground Streaming Blood by Robert Alexander Wray
    Cast: 
    12
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    Genre: adaptation, adventure + 8 more
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    Keyword: Diverse Ensemble, college age actors + 8 more
    Genre: adaptation, adventure, comedy, dark comedy, farce, immersive, movement/physical, period, political, tragedy
    Keyword: Diverse Ensemble, college age actors, based on Shakespeare, ancient greek mythology, features strong roles for women, sword fighting, epic play, feminist spin on Shakespeare, great roles for actors in their 20s-30s, a war story
    (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, the costs of war, gender politics, fate vs. free will, and the struggle to live a life that rises above old modes of violence and fear.
  • Savage Variations by Robert Alexander Wray
    Recommendations: 1
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    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 time-bending BDSM tale about desire and the dangers of intimacy.
  • 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 extravagantly as Lowell, Harold, Weldon and Margot, four longtime New York actor friends who gather together for a final farewell that turns out to be more final than they expected.
  • Bullet for Unaccompanied Heart by Robert Alexander Wray
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    3
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    Genre: adventure, comedy + 8 more
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    Keyword: isolation, mystery/thriller + 7 more
    Genre: adventure, comedy, dark comedy, experimental, fable/folktale, fantasy, immersive, musical, mystery/thriller, tragedy
    Keyword: isolation, mystery/thriller, ghosts, death, The Blues, crossword puzzles, suicide, Ancient Greek Myth, identity
    (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.
  • Ocean View Odyssey by Robert Alexander Wray
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    6
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    Genre: adventure, biography + 6 more
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    Keyword: small town, women + 8 more
    Genre: adventure, biography, dark comedy, docudrama/historic, drama, period, political, tragedy
    Keyword: small town, 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 Secret Rain 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.
  • Pelicans by Robert Alexander Wray
    Recommendations: 3
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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
    Recommendations: 1
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    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
    Recommendations: 2
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    Cast: 
    1
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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.
  • 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) A couple of the loneliest people on the planet meet in a bar and come to an unusual agreement.
  • Strip to Black by Robert Alexander Wray
    Cast: 
    2
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy + 1 more
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    Keyword: all female cast, striptease + 7 more
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy, movement/physical
    Keyword: all female cast, striptease, dancing, chasing your dreams, a comedy for two women, second chances, some cursing, good roles for college performers, courage
    (Short Play) Sandy and Denise, two dancers at a strip club, trade places in an attempt to alter their destinies for the better.
  • CloudLogic by Robert Alexander Wray
    Recommendations: 1
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    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.
  • 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 claims he didn't do.
  • 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
    Recommendations: 2
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    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?
  • Willowside by Robert Alexander Wray
    Cast: 
    3
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    Genre: dark comedy, horror
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    Keyword: comedy horror, famous writers + 8 more
    Genre: dark comedy, horror
    Keyword: comedy horror, famous writers, feminist ghost story, family ghosts, haunting, a comedy for three women, experimental, art in dark times, feminism, possession
    (Short Play) A woman visits the haunted estate of a famous writer and by the end of it finds herself...translated.