Playwright

  Bruce Graham’s plays include BURKIE, EARLY ONE EVENING AT THE RAINBOW BAR & GRILLE, MOON OVER THE BREWERY, CHAMPAGNE CHARLIE STAKES, MINOR DEMONS, DESPERATE AFFECTION, BELMONT AVENUE SOCIAL CLUB, ACCORDING TO GOLDMAN, and DEX AND JULIE SITTIN’ IN A TREE. COYOTE ON A FENCE won the ’98 Rosenthal Prize, was nominated for two Drama Desk Awards, and ran on London’s West End starring Ben Cross. SOMETHING INTANGIBLE premieres at the Arden Theatre in spring of ’09. His feature film credits include “Dunston Checks In,” “Anastasia,” and “Steal This Movie.” He has written the screenplays to the TV movies “Hunt for the Unicorn Killer,” “The Christmas Secret,” “Right on Track,” “Tiger Cruise,” and “Ring of Endless Light,” for which he won the Humanitas Award for Best Children’s Screenplay. His TV movie “The Most Wonderful Time of the Year” premieres on the Hallmark Channel Christmas ’08. Graham has also worked on the television shows “Roseanne” and “Legwork,” and cowrote a book with Michele Volansky entitled “The Collaborative Playwright.” He has received awards from the Pew Foundation, the Theater Association of Pennsylvania, the Rockefeller Foundation and was the 1992 Princess Grace Foundation Statuette recipient. Graham currently teaches film and theater courses at Drexel University. He lives in Philadelphia with Stephanie and their daughter, Kendall