Mike Brannon

Mike Brannon

Born and raised in Greensboro, NC. Aspiring playwright, occasional actor and director.

Plays

  • Remembering by Mike Brannon
    Cast: 
    7–25
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    Genre: drama, fantasy + 1 more
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    Keyword: memory, 1980s + 2 more
    Genre: drama, fantasy, period
    Keyword: memory, 1980s, Holocaust, Jewish
    Giselle Aizenberg is a Holocaust survivor who is ostensibly living with her adult daughter Elaine and granddaughter Suzy in a nice suburban house in the 1980s -- but who is actually still living in 1945 with her ghosts and her nightmares. Elaine had to live under the incredible burden of her mother's obsessions growing up, and fears for the health of her own daughter as Giselle starts losing her memory...
    Giselle Aizenberg is a Holocaust survivor who is ostensibly living with her adult daughter Elaine and granddaughter Suzy in a nice suburban house in the 1980s -- but who is actually still living in 1945 with her ghosts and her nightmares. Elaine had to live under the incredible burden of her mother's obsessions growing up, and fears for the health of her own daughter as Giselle starts losing her memory and tries to pass her demons down to a new generation.
    Remembering is a play about the impermanence of memory, about how real our recollections really are, and about how important it is to hold on to what we remember.
  • Where The Heart Lives by Mike Brannon
    Cast: 
    2
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    Genre: drama
    Genre: drama
    At the end of a long and painful battle, a young couple imagines their lives together, knowing they can't imagine their lives apart...
  • The Kindness of Strangers by Mike Brannon
    Cast: 
    3–4
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    Genre: drama, period
    Genre: drama, period
    In an airport bar in the late 1950s, two women meet and discover that they have a lot in common -- perhaps even too much in common...
  • Mothers of Murdered Offspring, Giving Thanks by Mike Brannon
    Cast: 
    6–12
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    Genre: drama
    Genre: drama
    Eighteen thousand people lose their lives to gun violence every year -- this story focuses on how families survive the loss of the people they love, through community and through faith, by standing together to remember and to give thanks.
  • Bestway Suites by Mike Brannon
    Cast: 
    5–10
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    Genre: drama, period + 1 more
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    Keyword: punk, homeless + 1 more
    Genre: drama, period, tragedy
    Keyword: punk, homeless, street
    Jerry and Sophie are two homeless people living beside a Bestway grocery store in urban North Carolina, trying to save enough money to escape the streets and beat back their demons. They meet up with a young tough skater kid, Kendall, and bond over a shared love of punk music before Kendall's rough friends (Xander and Beatz) remind him what they came there to do.
  • The Last Chance Masquerade by Mike Brannon
    Cast: 
    4
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    Genre: comedy, fantasy + 2 more
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    Keyword: Wishes, magic + 3 more
    Genre: comedy, fantasy, holiday, satire
    Keyword: Wishes, magic, funny, friends, holiday
    The Last Chance Masquerade -- a holiday party to “Dress up as your Childhood Aspiration, or Whatever the Hell You Wanted To Be When You Grew Up…” Old friends Terrell, Bobbie, and Dick meet Dick’s new friend, Jeannie, and muse about how their lives would be different – little knowing that Jeannie isn’t just the young woman’s name…
  • Let the Dead Bury the Dead by Mike Brannon
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    3–30
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    Genre: drama, horror
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    Keyword: zombie halloween brains
    Genre: drama, horror
    Keyword: zombie halloween brains
    In the midst of a zombie apocalypse, we discover an awful truth – zombies stalk and kill humans because they lack any thoughts or emotions of their own. Eating the flesh allows them to feel again, to relive that slight bit of awareness of what it means to be human again.

    Knowing that truth – to what lengths would you be willing to go just to get a final chance to say goodbye?
  • Rich Little Says Goodbye To His Mom by Mike Brannon
    Cast: 
    4
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    Genre: drama
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    Keyword: celebrity parent child hospital
    Genre: drama
    Keyword: celebrity parent child hospital
    Rich Little comes home to see his mother one last time, to say goodbye and to give her one last impression.
  • With Love, Your Ghosts by Mike Brannon
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    4
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    Genre: comedy, drama + 3 more
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    Keyword: ghosts funny love death
    Genre: comedy, drama, fantasy, holiday, horror
    Keyword: ghosts funny love death
    You know how they say, I'lll love you forever? Well, "forever" doesn't end just because one person, incoveniently, is dead.
  • By The Dawn's Early Light by Mike Brannon
    Cast: 
    6–9
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    Genre: drama
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    Keyword: 9/11 conflict
    Genre: drama
    Keyword: 9/11 conflict
    We're at the Empire Lounge at LaGuardia Airport. The date is September 11, 2001. The time is 8:58 AM – twelve minutes after American Airlines Flight 11 hit the North Tower of the World Trade Center, and five minutes before United Airlines Flight 175 crashed into the South Tower.
  • A Guy Walks Into A Bar by Mike Brannon
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    6–10
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    Genre: comedy, radio drama
    Genre: comedy, radio drama
    "You know all those stories that start off with, 'a guy walks into a bar'? Well, this is it. This is the bar. This. This place. The door, the beer signs, the coasters, the customers, everything. It’s all part of the joke."