Dan Bray is a multi-disciplinary theatre artist whose with a proven track record of creating strong, entertaining work. With a focus on original Canadian comedy (as well as forays into adaptation, literary pastiche, horror, and drama), his plays have been performed across the Maritimes, as well as British Columbia, Alberta, and Ontario. He regularly leads playwriting workshops, and - as a member of PERFORM! (Theatre Nova Scotia) - he has had the chance to help high school students and teachers across the province create their own projects.
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Dan is a member of both the Playwrights Guild of Canada and Playwrights Atlantic Resource Centre, through which many of his plays can be accessed and read. He is a prolific writer and enthusiastic collaborator (and has written with such artists as Jacob Sampson, Kat McCormack, Kevin Hartford, Colleen Arcturus MacIsaac, Justin Gregg, and Jessie Walker, among others). Dan has experience in writing comedy, drama, mysteries, theatre for kids, speeches, pitches, film, prose, grants, and essays, and his plays have been produced in universities and high schools.
Dan has also adapted many early-modern plays such as Arden (adapted from Arden of Feversham), TYRANT: A HORROR PLAY (adapted from The Second Maiden's Tragedy), and Fox (adapted from Volpone). He also adapted the British novel Observatory Mansions for the stage in 2022 and is currently working to bring the children's horror story Bunnicula by Deborah and James Howe to the stage.
Catalogue of Work
Unproduced
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The Sensational Escapades & Delicious Crusades of Minnie de Menthe
Musical Comedy. 7 Performers.
Clowns in the Ground
Horror Comedy. 8 Performers.
Midsummer Nightmare
Horror Comedy. 7 Performers.
Previously Produced
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The Jackson Elementary Grade 6 Drama Club presents: BLOOD AND SNOW: THE DONNER PARTY’S FATAL FORAY INTO THE SIERRA NEVADA WILDERNESS
Historical Comedy/Drama. 7 Performers.
Hansel und Gretel in: der Garten von Edible Horrors: a Terrible Parable
Horror Comedy. 4 Performers.
In Development
The following are a list of scripts currently being written. If something sounds interesting (or produce-able), please let me know! Commissions are a powerful motivator to finish a project.
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Par for the Curse
Comedy. 5 Performers.
Swiss Gothic
Horror Comedy. 6 Performers.
The Last Meal Cook Book
Drama. 2 Performers.
A Shakespearean Christmas Carol
Holiday Comedy. 6 Performers.
The Hallmark Murders
Holiday Comedy. 5 Performers.
Vespers
Drama. 8 Performers.
To read Dan's playwriting CV, please click here!
Zomblet photo by Stoo Metz.
Observatory Mansions photo by Stoo Metz.
Tyrant photo by Emily Jewer.
Observatory Mansions photo by Stoo Metz.