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J.Stephen Brantley

Do it with the Light on!

About Me

J.Stephen Brantley is a writer, performer, and proud native Texan. As an actor and dancer J.Stephen has appeared in about forty-two thousand theatre and film projects. His original work has been commissioned by Lincoln Center Director's Lab and Performance Space 122, where his 'Distortion Taco: Analog Hunger In A Digital World' was named a Village Voice Pick Of The Year.

J. is a graduate of NYU's Experimental Theatre Wing, a quintessential Scorpio, and a student-volunteer for Kabbalah Centre International. He lives with his partner in New York City and Southampton Village.


My Interests

Kabbalah, astrology, photography, volunteering, graphic and interior design, contemporary art and architecture, punk rock yoga, bikes boots & boyz with mohawks.

Music:

The Clash, Iggy Pop, Bowie, latter-day Madonna, Blondie, Eurythmics / Annie Lennox, Chris Whitley, Green Day, Rancid, Daniel Cartier, The Jam, Goldfrapp, Waylon, Johnny Cash, Chet Baker, Social Distortion, Blueberry featuring Gwen Snyder and much more...

Movies:

Giant, Satyricon, 1 Giant Leap, Frida, Memento, Kalifornia, Adaptation, The Hours, Basquiat, The Lost Boys, Rebel Without A Cause, Wild At Heart, I'm Going To Tell You A Secret, The Way Things Go, The Doors, Dogma, True Stories, Fassbinder stuff, and anything with Monty Clift. I heart Helen Mirren.Hey why not an art section - Raushenberg, Rothko, Kahlo, Basquiat, Beuys, Serra, Bruce Nauman, Adi Nes, Slava Mogutin, Louise Bourgeois, Steven Klein, Lachappelle, Joel-Peter Witkin, Matthew Barney.

Television:

Lost, Ugly Betty, Pushing Daisies, Footballers Wives, History Channel stuff, Colbert, various Britcoms (Vicar Of Dibly!). And - guilty pleasure - All My Children.

Books:

Winters Tale by Mark Helprin, Freddy And Fredericka also by Helprin, Becoming Like God by Michael Berg, 72 Names Of God by Yehuda Berg, The Mystery Of Love by Marc Gafni, Close To The Knives by David Wojnarowicz, The Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood, The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen, Doestoyevsky's Crime And Punishment, Genet's Querelle, Munro Leaf's Ferdinand, St.Exupery's Little Prince. Rimbaud. Rumi.

Heroes:

Rav Yehuda Ashlag. Rav Philip and Karen Berg. Ishmael Beah. Father Mychael Judge. Bono. Madonna. Walt Whitman. Henry David Thoreau. My partner. My grandmothers.

My Blog

Upcoming Stuff - October and Novermber 2008

October 27, 2008, New York City  One time only! Monday at 7pmOrange Hanky presents the first-ever public reading ofTHE JAMB - A new full-length play by J.Stephen BrantleyDirected by Jonathan Warm...
Posted by J.Stephen Brantley on Fri, 10 Oct 2008 04:48:00 PST

End Poverty - Be the Generation

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRyMxSS-KI0 Be part of the generation that ends poverty forever. Our governments do a lot of things 'in our name'. Demand that yours keep it's Millenium Promis...
Posted by J.Stephen Brantley on Tue, 23 Sep 2008 06:51:00 PST

Blogging Malawi 8.01.08

Raising Malawi Supporters Journey to MalawiJ.Stephen Brantley7/23/089:23 AM Everyone who visits Malawi discovers a country of contrasts. There is abject poverty set against tremendous natural beauty. ...
Posted by J.Stephen Brantley on Sat, 02 Aug 2008 10:19:00 PST

Blogging Malawi

Lots of very exciting things happening at Raising Malawi. One of the biggest - and believe me you will be hearing about this one - is the Raising Malawi Academy For Girls. RM is assembling a remarkabl...
Posted by J.Stephen Brantley on Sun, 20 Jul 2008 08:00:00 PST

Kabbalah: The Best Kept Secret on tour!

Kabbalah: The Best Kept Secret is a live event that brings the power of Kabbalah to you. More than a scholarly presentation of Kabbalah, its an experience that will empower you to take your life to ne...
Posted by J.Stephen Brantley on Fri, 30 May 2008 05:42:00 PST

Blogging Malawi

I work on another blog for an amazing not-for-profit organization called Raising Malawi. Here is a link for a piece I wrote a while back - http://www.raisingmalawi.org/blog_tribeca.phpYou can also rea...
Posted by J.Stephen Brantley on Thu, 29 May 2008 10:43:00 PST

Breaking in, breaking down, breaking through.

Oi cyberfriends,It was about this time a year ago I began working on a new piece that eventually became a one-act play called BREAK. As with all my writing, the story borrows a bit from my own experie...
Posted by J.Stephen Brantley on Tue, 22 Apr 2008 05:16:00 PST

Check out this event: Spring EATfest

Hosted By: Emerging Artists TheatreWhen: Tuesday Apr 15, 2008 at 7:00 PMWhere: Roy Arias Theatre Center 300 West 43rd St, 5th FlNew York, NY 10036United StatesDescription:Emerging Artists Theatre Clic...
Posted by J.Stephen Brantley on Mon, 31 Mar 2008 10:36:00 PST

Latest.

Last weekend we wrapped up Half Assiduity’s innagural production of The Gay Barber’s Apartment. It was a remarkable journey. I’m not sure that I’d ever been a part of such a wh...
Posted by J.Stephen Brantley on Sun, 30 Mar 2008 12:00:00 PST

Vid from www.climateprotect.org. Check it.

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Posted by J.Stephen Brantley on Fri, 31 Aug 2007 06:10:00 PST