Tracy Brigden

Tracy Brigden has spent over 30 years in the theatre nurturing, developing, producing and directing new work for the stage. She currently serves as Senior Artistic Producer at the Guthrie Theater where she has directed DIAL M FOR MURDER and THE MOUSETRAP. Tracy was Artistic Director of City Theatre in Pittsburgh for 16 years where she produced almost 200 new plays and musicals including world premieres by Keith Reddin, Chistopher Durang, Sharon Washington, Daniel Beatty, Jeffrey Hatcher, Michael Hollinger, Cori Thomas, Adam Rapp and many more. Prior to City, Tracy served on the artistic staffs of Hartford Stage and Manhattan Theatre Club. In addition to the 50 plus plays she directed at City, she has also directed at Westport Playhouse, NY Stage and Film, Pittsburgh Public, The Atlantic...

Tracy Brigden has spent over 30 years in the theatre nurturing, developing, producing and directing new work for the stage. She currently serves as Senior Artistic Producer at the Guthrie Theater where she has directed DIAL M FOR MURDER and THE MOUSETRAP. Tracy was Artistic Director of City Theatre in Pittsburgh for 16 years where she produced almost 200 new plays and musicals including world premieres by Keith Reddin, Chistopher Durang, Sharon Washington, Daniel Beatty, Jeffrey Hatcher, Michael Hollinger, Cori Thomas, Adam Rapp and many more. Prior to City, Tracy served on the artistic staffs of Hartford Stage and Manhattan Theatre Club. In addition to the 50 plus plays she directed at City, she has also directed at Westport Playhouse, NY Stage and Film, Pittsburgh Public, The Atlantic Theater Co and many others. Tracy holds a BS in Theatre/Directing from Northwestern University and a Masters from Point Park University’s Dramatic Writing MFA Program.

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Scripts

I KNOW YOU ARE, BUT WHAT AM I?

by Tracy Brigden

Cast Size
4
Genre
comedy,
drama

New Yorker Alice prepares Thanksgiving dinner for her family, her ex-boyfriend and her soon-to-be-announced-fiancé. But her best laid plans and table go awry when her parent's car breaks down on the Jersey Turnpike, the fiancé has to leave for a work crisis, and her ex-boyfriend gets drunk and tells her some unexpected truths that change everything.

New Yorker Alice prepares Thanksgiving dinner for her family, her ex-boyfriend and her soon-to-be-announced-fiancé. But her best laid plans and table go awry when her parent's car breaks down on the Jersey Turnpike, the fiancé has to leave for a work crisis, and her ex-boyfriend gets drunk and tells her some unexpected truths that change everything.

LONG SHOT

by Tracy Brigden

Cast Size
4
Genre
romantic comedy

Derby Day, 1962, the West Village

Based on my mother's famous line about how she met my father: "I was wearing a backless cashmere sweater and your father was wearing a bottle of gin."

Derby Day, 1962, the West Village

Based on my mother's famous line about how she met my father: "I was wearing a backless cashmere sweater and your father was wearing a bottle of gin."

STAGE STRUCK

by Tracy Brigden

1
Cast Size
5—8
Genre
biography,
docudrama/historic,
drama

Bram Stoker, author of the Gothic masterpiece, Dracula, spent much of his career in service to the British Theatre’s most famous leading man, the actor/manager of the London’s Lyceum Theatre, Henry Irving. Together, Irving and his leading lady, Ellen Terry, ruled the London stage for the later part of the 19th century and many literary historians feel that Irving was the model for Stoker’s famous Count and...

Bram Stoker, author of the Gothic masterpiece, Dracula, spent much of his career in service to the British Theatre’s most famous leading man, the actor/manager of the London’s Lyceum Theatre, Henry Irving. Together, Irving and his leading lady, Ellen Terry, ruled the London stage for the later part of the 19th century and many literary historians feel that Irving was the model for Stoker’s famous Count and Terry for the novel’s “modern” woman, Mina.

Stage Stuck follows Stoker through his years with Irving and Terry while interweaving the story of a different troupe of players in the 1980s downtown theatre scene as they navigate the sex, drugs and rock and roll of that golden era of NY theatre to mount a production of Dracula. The two worlds collide in theatrical ways and reveal that a life in the theatre is both fraught and joyous in any century.

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WORTH

by Tracy Brigden

1
Cast Size
3
Genre
drama

A painter, a curator and a museum guard discuss the meaning and value of a painting when the guard slashes it with a key.

A painter, a curator and a museum guard discuss the meaning and value of a painting when the guard slashes it with a key.