STEPHEN FRUCHTMAN

StephenFruchtman@Gmail.com

EDUCATION

PACE UNIVERSITY’S ACTORS STUDIO DRAMA SCHOOL

  • M.F.A in Playwriting (2021-2024)

UPRIGHT CITIZENS’ BRIGADE

  • Sketch Writing 101-301 (December 2019 - November 2020)

THE FARM THEATER

  • Play Development Workshop (September - October 2019, April - May, July - August & September-October 2020 )

LABYRINTH THEATER COMPANY 

  • Intensive Ensemble (August 2010)

  • Master Class (March 2010)

NEW YORK UNIVERSITY’S TISCH SCHOOL OF THE ARTS

  • B.F.A in Dramatic Writing, concentration in Playwriting (2003-2007)

ORIGINAL READINGS & PRODUCTIONS

Play Incubation Collective, Winter Salon

  • A selection from The Cohens in Covid (February 2022)

Theater Between Addresses, Wednesday Zoom Reading Series

  • Non-Fiduciary Treason (December 2021)

  • The Cohens in Covid (January 2022)

The LAVA Center, Facing the Future

  • “The Waters Around You Have Grown” (December 2020)

Upright Citizen’s Brigade, “Zoom Date with Destiny”

  • “Deus Ex Box” “Yellow Background Wallpaper” (November 2020)

Arena Civic Theatre

  • “Barking Mad at the End of the World,” “Regrets(™),” “Stones” (April 2019)

  •  No Delorean (May 2018)

Ghost Light Theater Wednesday Workshop

  • Fallen (October 2018)

  • “The Fly That was a Spider...,” “First Confession,” “Dungeons & Drudgery” (September 2018)

  • Fallen (April 2018)

  • The Squad (October 2017)

Easthampton Book Fest

  • “Dungeons & Drudgery” (April 2017)

Greenfield Community College Locally Grown

  • The Life of a Tertiary Character (December 2016)

Provincetown Theater

  • The Squad (February 2014)

  • 24 Hour Play Festival - “Breaking & Entering & Dating” (January 2014)

  • “First Confession” (November 2013)

A Shot of Theater presents Simpsons Did It; 

  • “Regrets(™)” (November 2013)

Self-Produced

  • Gamers, a reading (April 2010)

NYU College of Artst and Sciences Theater Evening of One Acts

  • “Monologue?” (December 2005)

Eclipse Theater Company

  • An Evening of Fruchtman (February 2005)


AWARDS

Finalist, McLaren Memorial Comedy One Act Play Competition

  • The Life of a Tertiary Character (August 2011)

Honorable Mention, McLaren Memorial Comedy Full Length Play Competition

  • Split Pea Soup (August 2011)

Finalist, Lionheart Theater’s Make the House Roar Prize

  • Split Pea Soup (July 2011)

Finalist, Fusion Theater’s The Seven New Works Fest

  • “Just Another Day in the White House Press Briefing Room” (June 2011)

Winner, Summer Play Write Festival

  • “Dream Girl,” and “The Long and Winding Road” (July 2003)

  • “Fake Boy” (July 2002)

  • “Monologue?” (July 2001)

GAMES

Cover Letter Quest

(Note: This was written to supplement a job application to Telltale Games in 2015)

Polonius, or, Is Brevity the Soul of Wit?