Drama Desk Award winner Bradford Louryk is an actor and theater artist who most recently conceived and performed the rapturously critically acclaimed Christine Jorgensen Reveals, which played at 59E59 Theaters, The Assembly Rooms at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Dodger Stages, Theatre Row, The Boston Center for the Arts (BCA), and The Project Arts Centre in Dublin (where Mr. Louryk received the Hilton Edwards Award for his work). Christine Jorgensen Reveals also received a 2006 GLAAD Media Award nomination for Best Play and a 2007 IRNE Award nomination from the Independent Reviewers of New England. His other New York credits include his Klytaemnestra's Unmentionables at hERE; Clay McLeod Chapman's redbird and Rob Grace's The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark at The Culture Project for Studio 42; the American Premiere of First You're Born at the Peter Jay Sharp Theater at Playwrights Horizons; Jewish Mothers (also by Clay McLeod Chapman) for the Culture Project's Women Center Stage Festival; and New Georges' ManFest, in which he performed his Elektra.
Bradford has been profiled by or featured prominently in major international media including The New York Times, The Post, The Daily News, Newsday, The Boston Globe, The Boston Herald, The Boston Phoenix, The Scotsman, The Guardian, American Theatre, GOTHAM Magazine (as one of New York City’s 100 Most Eligible Bachelors), and Backstage; on television and radio; and in the Oxford University Press book Dionysus Since `69. He is a founding member of Studio 42 (for whom he served as Artistic Director from 2001 through 2004), and a founding member of The Starving Artists Award Fund (and two-time Co-Chair of The Starving Artists Ball).
With Rob Grace and Alex Timbers, Bradford will develop his latest solo play at this summer's Sundance Theatre Laboratory in Park City, Utah. With collaborators Josh Hecht, Jack Ferver, Mike Albo, David Grimm, Lisa Kron, Bryony Lavery, Wendy MacLeod, Theresa Rebeck, and Kate Robin, he is also developing Version Mary. In addition, he is busily at work on an opera with Kelly Dupuis and Guggenheim fellow Yotam Haber.
BA: Vassar.