Thomas Bradshaw (playwright)
{{short description|American playwright|bot=PearBOT 5}}
Thomas Bradshaw is an American playwright whose work has been extensively reviewed.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/14/theater/thomas-bradshaw-talks-about-job-and-his-other-plays.html?_r=0 |title=Savoring the Rewards of Button Pushing |work= The New York Times|date=11 October 2012|first=Jennifer|last=Schuessler|access-date=15 May 2014}}{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/20/theater/reviews/job-at-the-flea-theater.html?_r=0 |title=An Earthly Take on a Heavenly Work |work= The New York Times|date=19 September 2012|first=Ben|last=Brantley|access-date=15 May 2014}} He is the recipient of PEN/Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater Award as the Emerging American Playwright and of the Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists award (2012).{{Cite web|url=https://www.foundationforcontemporaryarts.org/recipients/thomas-bradshaw|title=Thomas Bradshaw :: Foundation for Contemporary Arts|website=www.foundationforcontemporaryarts.org|access-date=2018-04-19}}
Plays
- The Seagull/Woodstock, NY (2023)
- Thomas & Sally (2017){{cite news |last=Janiak |first=Lily |url= http://www.sfgate.com/performance/article/Thomas-and-Sally-How-much-did-she-choose-12253475.php |title='Thomas and Sally': How much did she choose? |work=San Francisco Chronicle |date=2017-10-04 |access-date=2017-10-24}}
- Fulfillment (2015){{cite news |last=Brantley |first=Ben |url= https://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/22/theater/review-thomas-bradshaws-fulfillment-on-one-mans-ceiling-and-his-frustrations.html |title=Review: Thomas Bradshaw's 'Fulfillment,' on One Man's Ceiling, and His Frustrations |work=The New York Times |date=2015-09-21 }}
- Intimacy (2014){{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/30/theater/thomas-bradshaws-intimacy-makes-sex-neighborly.html?_r=0 |title=Sure, Son, I'll Be in Your Skin Flick |work= The New York Times|date=29 January 2014|first=Ben|last=Brantley|access-date=15 May 2014}}
- Job (2012){{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/20/theater/reviews/job-at-the-flea-theater.html?_r=0 |title=An Earthly Take on a Heavenly Work |work= The New York Times|date=19 September 2012|first=Ben|last=Brantley|access-date=15 May 2014}}
- Burning (2011){{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/15/theater/reviews/thomas-bradshaws-burning-at-acorn-theater-review.html?pagewanted=all |title=Where Nothing Is Black and White, or Even Gray |work= The New York Times|date=14 November 2011|first=Ben|last=Brantley|access-date=15 May 2014}}
- Mary (2011){{cite news|url=https://variety.com/interstitial/?ref=http%3A%2F%2Fvariety.com%2F2011%2Flegit%2Freviews%2Fmary-1117944622%2F |title=Mary |work= Variety|date=15 February 2011|first=Steven|last=Oxman|access-date=15 May 2014}}
- The Bereaved (2009){{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/15/theater/reviews/15bereaved.html |title=After I Die, Honey, Please Marry My Friend |work= The New York Times|date=15 September 2009|first=Jason|last=Zinoman|access-date=15 May 2014}}
- Southern Promises (2008){{cite news|url=http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/theatre/2008/09/22/080922crth_theatre_als |title=American Gothic |work= The New York Times|date=22 September 2008|first=Hilton|last=Als|access-date=15 May 2014}}
- Purity (2007){{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/10/theater/reviews/10puri.html |title=A Playwright's Horror Show of Cultural and Racial Identity |work= The New York Times|date=10 January 2007|first=Jason|last=Zinoman|access-date=15 May 2014}}
- Prophet (2005){{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/13/theater/reviews/13prop.html |title=A Holy Man Is Off to the Races With Issues in Black and White |work= The New York Times|date=13 December 2005|first=Margo|last=Jefferson|access-date=15 May 2014}}
Reactions
Bradshaw's work Thomas & Sally was met with protests because the play debates whether Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings could have been in love. Protestors argue that there is no room for debate because Hemings was Jefferson's slave.{{cite news |last=Kost |first=Ryan |url= http://www.sfchronicle.com/performance/article/Marin-play-ignites-debate-about-history-and-12297666.php |title=Marin play ignites debate about history and slavery |work=San Francisco Chronicle |date=2017-10-22 |access-date=2017-10-24}}
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