Three friends venture to an Island on the South Coast of Maine in order to salvage their friendship...what they find instead is a mystery of mythical proportions....

Two young women break into their teacher's classroom in order to steal the "big test" out of their teacher's desk drawer. In the process of negotiating over a poem, the two learn the meaning of socioeconomic status and honesty.

Jessica and Gillian are bullied twin girls who have been cast to play the Twin Towers in their uncle’s pageant at Rome High. They decide to make a statement by disrupting the event with self-inflicted wounds. A look into the life of twins, Capstone reminds us that we all follow the beat of our own (not necessarily patriotic) drum.

Note:
I am an identical twin and the father of a child with autism. I found out one night while having an argument with a family member that a number of my teachers and guidance counselors wanted to have me tested for autism spectrum disorder (Aspergers in particular). I was never tested. This play is for those who still don’t know.

Further Dedication: To Tomax and Xamot and the Hasbro Toy company. To Doublemint Gum and to people who say they “study twins.”

Two recovering addicts try to fix the world’s problems (and each other) after their old pusher shows up at a New Year’s Party.

Welcome to the Rosendale Hotel where guests can stay a night, a week, a month, or a lifetime. Enter Patrick, a stranger who meets local characters and inhabitants such as Joe Joe, a mechanic and tow-truck operator with dreams of being a car salesman; and Rachel, the concierge whose only pleasures in life come from watching the various residents torture themselves as if she were watching a reality show. One night, Joe Joe witnesses Patrick and Rachel dancing close, causing him to feel so jealous that he throws Patrick out a third story window. He then steals Patrick’s suitcase, which is full of loose cash and rawhide “bones” (for dog’s teeth). Patrick’s body disappears, and a wolf starts circling the hotel. Dead Movement is the story of people who want to disappear, and others who want to be seen; both are desperate impulses which, when followed, lead to funny, complicated, uncanny results.

Small town politics served hot! When a corporate coffee shop looks to move into the center of liberal arts college town, will the people band together for the sake of independence? Or will they collapse as each resident struggles to find their own way in a shifting economic landscape?

“Donkey captures the current American moment about as well as any play I’ve come across in the past few years. It’s loaded with riveting characters, genuine wisdom about the human condition, unbridled humor, and, when we least expect it, moments of authentic love and understanding that take the breath away. I urge you to experience this extraordinary new play […]. It’s a work that lingers, that breeds discussion, that yields true insight. It’s very funny and awesomely sad…and exquisitely beautiful.” – Martin Denton, Indie Theatre Now
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A surrealist take on The Hound of the Baskervilles, where grieving widower Watson heads out to Dartmoor in the hopes that a Hound of Hell can lead him to his deceased wife.
“Bray has thrown in some fanciful elements as well—such as dogs that talk whom only Watson can hear—to create not so much a radical reinvention of the famous pair, but rather a thoughtful and well-crafted re- examination that uses, but isn't constrained by, preconceived ideas of what a Sherlock Holmes mystery or a period murder mystery is supposed to be.”
“...great theatrical fun.” - Fred Backus, nytheatre.com

“Bray’s clever script follows the storyline of Baskerville surprisingly faithfully, yet leads to very different outcomes for its cast of characters at each turn. His philosophical themes are quite intriguing, successfully adding another layer to the familiar Hell Hound tale." - JB Spins

“I was reminded of an almost Tim Burton-esque world of Sherlock Holmes. It was indeed a treat.” - Dianna Martin, The Fab Marquee

“The theatrical elements of Bray's play - monologues by secondary characters explaining their backstory, talking dogs that Watson can understand, use of flashback - all combine to create a world that to Watson's eye is completely off-kilter (...) The result is decidedly theatrical and unrealistic, but certainly entertaining.” – Byrne Harrison, stagebuzz.com.

Industry Quotes for Hound
"Like the great detective himself, John Bray boldly peers into the darkest corners of the classic Sherlock Holmes story, Hound of the Baskervilles - and comes back with monsters we never knew were lurking on the moor. Not a literal adaptation, Bray's Hound is a playful, eerie and disturbing riff on the shadows gathering in Conan Doyle's soon-to-vanish Edwardian world." - Neal Bell (Obie and Edgar-Award Winning Playwright, Two Small Bodies, Monster)

"[Hound is] absolutely beguiling. It is clever, funny, moving in unexpected ways, and has a wonderful sense of mischief that (thankfully) never leaves the characters or dramatic situation high and dry, in that self- congratulatory post-modern way. Doyle would bless the project, I'm sure." - George Toles (screenwriter, The Saddest Music in the World).

What if there was a Dracula story in which Dracula…never showed up? What if fear and paranoia drove the residents of Seward’s asylum to perform unspeakable acts – bloodletting; sexual infidelity; gender-confusion; blood infusions with no notion of how different types can create a poison within a person's veins; without ever actually seeing the Prince of Darkness? Using Bram Stoker’s novel as a starting point, God’s Madmen examines the ways in which each act of communication contains beginnings and the hope of a happy ending – and the seeds of its ruin.

"Those that create you...are your God." ERIK: A PLAY ABOUT A PUPPET is a darkly poetic retelling of Gaston Leroux's The Phantom of the Opera as seen through the iron bars of a cage in a carnival freak-show, where our perceived truths about beauty and ugliness are stretched in a funhouse mirror. With puppets more twisted than a melodrama mustache (and twice as greasy), ERIK points and laughs at the real freak show: us.