Graham Techler

Graham Techler

Graham Techler is a writer and performer living in Brooklyn. He is a company member with Less Than Rent, who will produce his play The Panic of '29 Off-Broadway this Summer. Other plays have been developed and produced at Urban Stages, New Jersey Rep, The Annoyance, ​and the Williamstown Theatre Festival. As a lyricist, he was selected for the Johnny Mercer Foundation's Songwriters Project in 2021. He...
Graham Techler is a writer and performer living in Brooklyn. He is a company member with Less Than Rent, who will produce his play The Panic of '29 Off-Broadway this Summer. Other plays have been developed and produced at Urban Stages, New Jersey Rep, The Annoyance, ​and the Williamstown Theatre Festival. As a lyricist, he was selected for the Johnny Mercer Foundation's Songwriters Project in 2021. He's contributed to McSweeney's and The New Yorker, which included him in their roundup of the best Shouts & Murmurs of 2019. His plays have been published in anthologies by Smith & Kraus and Applause Books. He was a regular writer and performer at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre. BFA: University of Michigan.

Plays

  • The Panic of '29 by Graham Techler
    Cast: 
    10
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy + 4 more
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy, docudrama/historic, farce, period, satire
    A Wall Street financier finds himself facing down a national crisis alongside his secretary, a cabaret singer, the owner of a speakeasy, a beat cop, a pulp fiction writer, and many others. Ten actors play thirty-four characters in a three part ahistorical epic comedy about the end of America.
  • Trust Fund by Graham Techler
    Cast: 
    5
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy + 3 more
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy, farce, romantic comedy, satire
    A con artist forms an alliance with a young writer to swindle the largest trust fund in the world away from his old Yale buddy Alvin Anselman: the youngest in a family of arms dealers on permanent vacation in Europe. But the plan quickly goes awry when Alvin decides to get more involved in their lives than they bargained for.
  • The Tycoons! by Graham Techler
    Cast: 
    6
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy + 3 more
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy, period, romantic comedy, satire
    New York City, 1902. A sheepish law student courts the daughter of the nation’s most powerful railroad magnate, giving way to a series of plots, counter plots, and counter-counter plots that will suck in and take down everyone that the young lovers have ever met and/or held dear.
  • New York City Girls Will Kill You by Graham Techler
    Cast: 
    4
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy
    Amy, Jessica, Christina, and Karen are going out! At a Garden of Eden-themed club night in Manhattan, they find themselves questioning their costumes, their dates, and, most importantly, tonightʼs theme, and what it means for them.
  • The Moderators by Graham Techler
    Cast: 
    2
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy + 4 more
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy, drama, musical, political, satire
    Lee is an overworked office drone at Coaxial, a company contracted by Facebook to review and remove content deemed too disturbing for the public. When he finds evidence that could potentially stop some of the acts being posted, he has to convince his chipper manager to take action in a darkly comic look at Big Tech's underbelly. Co-written with Barrett Riggins.
  • Helsinki by Graham Techler
    Cast: 
    5–10
    ·
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy + 3 more
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy, drama, musical, romantic comedy
    A deadpan love story between ​a factory worker and waitress set against the backdrop of the most depressing time to live in the most depressing city in the world. Co-written with Barrett Riggins.