Brandon Bogle

Brandon Bogle is a Theater Artist based in New York City. Brandon’s work aims to uncover the deep compassion that exists between people, by highlighting the beauty, musicality and mundanity of life. His plays center on marginalized identities as they fight to find their footing to exist in a world that excludes, persecutes and uses them. Brandon writes to reflect how, at the most instinctual level, all people desire to be seen, heard and loved in order to affirm their right to live.

Brandon was named as a 2024 Finalist for the O’Neill National Playwriting Conference. He was named a Schubert Scholar and nominated for the Ollie Award. He currently serves as an Adjunct Professor at Hunter College. He is also the lead facilitator for the LIT Council, a playwriting group in residency at The...

Brandon Bogle is a Theater Artist based in New York City. Brandon’s work aims to uncover the deep compassion that exists between people, by highlighting the beauty, musicality and mundanity of life. His plays center on marginalized identities as they fight to find their footing to exist in a world that excludes, persecutes and uses them. Brandon writes to reflect how, at the most instinctual level, all people desire to be seen, heard and loved in order to affirm their right to live.

Brandon was named as a 2024 Finalist for the O’Neill National Playwriting Conference. He was named a Schubert Scholar and nominated for the Ollie Award. He currently serves as an Adjunct Professor at Hunter College. He is also the lead facilitator for the LIT Council, a playwriting group in residency at The Tank. He has had work produced at the Dixon Place as part of their HOT festival, at Bizarre Bar in Bushwick, at the Producer’s Circle in Manhattan and a Staged Reading as part of the First LIT(e) series at the Tank. Hunter MFA '25.

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Scripts

Edges

by Brandon Bogle

Cast Size
8
Genre
comedy,
drama,
period,
political

Inspired by Chekhov’s Three Sisters, Edges is set at the twilight of the Harlem Renaissance, a once-influential black family faces the looming shadow of the Great Depression, throwing into question all of their dreams. As they long for the dream of advancement and the age of the New Negro, they’re perpetually interrupted by bills, bickering, and a rotating set of friends and lovers. As time slips away, is the...

Inspired by Chekhov’s Three Sisters, Edges is set at the twilight of the Harlem Renaissance, a once-influential black family faces the looming shadow of the Great Depression, throwing into question all of their dreams. As they long for the dream of advancement and the age of the New Negro, they’re perpetually interrupted by bills, bickering, and a rotating set of friends and lovers. As time slips away, is the shadow of legacy bringing them closer together or stifling what their lives could be?

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Where We Stand

by Brandon Bogle

Cast Size
7
Genre
drama,
political

When the new campus science center is found vandalized by a rogue student, the student
activist group is confronted by the administration to condemn this act or face consequences.
Now these students must determine if they will concede to authority to save their group or
support and stand up for the ideals they were founded on.

When the new campus science center is found vandalized by a rogue student, the student
activist group is confronted by the administration to condemn this act or face consequences.
Now these students must determine if they will concede to authority to save their group or
support and stand up for the ideals they were founded on.

Dragon In The River

by Brandon Bogle

Cast Size
5
Genre
adventure,
experimental,
fable/folktale,
movement/physical

A girl is found by the river by a father and his two sons. As this new family grows together and try to discover who and what this young woman is, a rich man machinates to take ownership of them all.

In this quick woven myth, we explore who gets to define women. The men in their lives and their desires or the deep-seated unknowable quality that exists inside of this girl?

A girl is found by the river by a father and his two sons. As this new family grows together and try to discover who and what this young woman is, a rich man machinates to take ownership of them all.

In this quick woven myth, we explore who gets to define women. The men in their lives and their desires or the deep-seated unknowable quality that exists inside of this girl?

Inside

by Brandon Bogle

Cast Size
3—7
Genre
adventure,
comedy,
experimental,
fantasy,
movement/physical

A Hero has lost his Heart and must battle the manifestations of his darkest emotions in order to
find her. But who, or what, is that really? A meta-physical and funny battle of the soul, love and
self externalized onto the stage.

A Hero has lost his Heart and must battle the manifestations of his darkest emotions in order to
find her. But who, or what, is that really? A meta-physical and funny battle of the soul, love and
self externalized onto the stage.

By Flight

by Brandon Bogle

Cast Size
5
Genre
drama,
experimental,
science fiction

A scientist is commissioned to work on his dream, creating wings for travel. But as he works
himself to the bone, he’s confronted with all of who he is that got him here. His isolation,
hyper-fixation and most of all, feeling abandoned. Can he achieve his dreams past this trauma?

A scientist is commissioned to work on his dream, creating wings for travel. But as he works
himself to the bone, he’s confronted with all of who he is that got him here. His isolation,
hyper-fixation and most of all, feeling abandoned. Can he achieve his dreams past this trauma?

Push It

by Brandon Bogle

Cast Size
2
Genre
dark comedy

To be strong or to be emotional? To be a man or to be vulnerable? To work out or to stay weak?
None of these are mutually exclusive, but a lot of men think they are. Push It examines what
happens when men force themselves into the narrow and toxic life of hyper-masculinity. "Dude,
can we talk about our problems?" "Shut up my Guy."

To be strong or to be emotional? To be a man or to be vulnerable? To work out or to stay weak?
None of these are mutually exclusive, but a lot of men think they are. Push It examines what
happens when men force themselves into the narrow and toxic life of hyper-masculinity. "Dude,
can we talk about our problems?" "Shut up my Guy."