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Gabriel Jason Dean (born December 12, 1979) is an American playwright, screenwriter, and professor. Select plays include Rift[1], Heartland[2], Terminus[3], Qualities of Starlight[4], and The Transition of Doodle Pequeño[5]. His work has been produced Off-Broadway, regionally, and internationally[6].

EARLY LIFE & EDUCATION

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Dean was born in Dalton, GA in 1979 and raised in the foothills of the Appalachian mountains in the nearby town of Chatsworth, GA on “soil three generations of my family farmed."[7] Dean describes the environment of his childhood as “the bottom of someone else’s bottom line."[8]The playwright has detailed the cognitive dissonance he experienced as a child when witnessing his family and community’s professed Christian values juxtaposed by their racist beliefs and actions and that dissonance has become a major part of his oeuvre[9].

Dean often writes from his own life;[10] most notably, in Rift, a two-hander inspired by Dean’s real-life relationship with his estranged, incarcerated white supremacist brother[11], which chronicles the difficulties of familial reconciliation amidst opposing ideologies.[12] Dean also pulls from family history in Terminus which, through a Southern Gothic lens, contends with the American legacy of racial violence and segregation.[13] Dean has noted that he is primarily interested in narratives of reparation, how love and empathy play a part in theatre and, ultimately, social justice.[14]

Dean graduated with honors from Murray County High School[15]. From there, he attended New York University[16] briefly to study acting and musical theatre, but came back to Georgia to study English and Creative Writing at Oglethorpe University, where he earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in 2003[17]. He then went on to receive a Master of Fine Arts degree focusing on Playwriting and Poetry from The University of Texas at Austin’s Michener Center for Writers in 2012[18] with mentorship from playwrights Steven Dietz, Suzan Zeder, Kirk Lynn, Octavio Solis, Sherry Kramer and the late poet Dean Young.

CAREER

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Dubbed “a great modern American playwright[19],” Dean’s work has been produced and developed widely at notable theatres such as New York Theatre Workshop[20], Manhattan Theatre Club[21], McCarter Theatre[22], Cherry Lane Theatre[23], The Flea[24], The Kennedy Center[25], Traverse Theatre[26], 59E59[27], The Amoralists[28], Geva Theatre Center[29], Luna Stage[30], Amphibian Stages[31], PlayPenn[32], Interact Theatre[33], The Playwrights’ Center[34], The VORTEX[35], Theatre [502][36], Aurora Theatre[37], Dallas Children’s Theatre[38], Source Festival[39], and Essential Theatre[40].

From 2014-15, Dean was a Hodder Fellow at Princeton University[41], and he received the Dramatist’s Guild Fellowship in 2013[42]. He was a finalist for the Humanitas New Voices TV Fellowship in 2017[43] and has received grants from the Venturous Theatre Fund[44] and the Ford Foundation[45]. Dean is an alum of The Civilians R&D Group[46], an Affiliated Writer at The Playwrights’ Center[34], and a Usual Suspect at New York Theatre Workshop[20]. His scripts are published through Concord Theatrical[47], Dramatic Publishing, and Playscripts[48]. He is currently an Assistant Professor of English Literatures and Writing & Theatre at Muhlenberg College[49] where he teaches Playwriting, Screenwriting, and Dramaturgy.

PRODUCTIONS, AWARDS, & PUBLICATIONS

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Play Title Notable Production(s) Awards Publication
Rift (also known as Rift, or White Lies) INTERNATIONAL: Traverse Theatre[26] (2025)

U.S. REGIONAL: National New Play Network Rolling World Premiere[50] (2024/25)

Heartland OFF-BROADWAY: 59E59 (2022)

U.S. REGIONAL: National New Play Network Rolling World Premiere[50] (2018/19)

Dramatic Publishing[2],
Terminus OFF-OFF BROADWAY: New York Theatre Workshop[20], Next Door Series starring Tony Award and Obie Award Winner Deirdre O'Connell (2018)
  • PlayPenn (2013)
  • Austin Critics’ Table Award for Best Production (Drama) directed by Rudy Ramirez and Best Actor in a Lead Role for Jennifer Underwood as Eller[57] (2016)
  • B. Iden Payne Awards for Outstanding Drama Production, Director (Rudy Ramirez), Lead Actor (Jaques Colimon), Lead Actress (Jennifer Underwood), Set Design (Ann Marie Gordon), Lighting (Patrick Anthony), Sound (David DeMaris) and Script[58] (2016)
  • Longlisted for the University of Edinburgh James Tait Black Prize for Drama (2017)
 Dramatic Publishing[3],
Qualities of Starlight U.S. REGIONAL: Theatre [502][36] (2016); The Vortex[59] (2013); Source Festival[39] (2012), Essential Theatre[40] (2010)
  • Broadway Blacklist[60] (2016)
  • B. Iden Payne Awards for Outstanding Comedy, Director (Rudy Ramirez), Ensemble (Jennifer Underwood & Dennis Bailey), Lead Actor (Toby Minor), Set Design (Ann Marie Gordon), and Original Script[61] (2013)
  • Essential Theatre New Play Award[40] (2010)
 Dramatic Publishing[4]
The Transition of Doodle Pequeño INTERNATIONAL: Club de Teatro[62] (2024)

U.S. REGIONAL: Teatro Vision[63] (2019); Hangar Theatre[64] (2018)

UNIVERSITY: Northwestern University[65] (2014)

  • Oficio Critico Best Play for Young Audiences Award[66] (2024)
  • Kennedy Center New Visions / New Voices Conference[25], (2012)
  • American Alliance for Theatre & Education Distinguished Play Award[67] (2013)
  • New England Theatre Conference Aurand Harris Award[68] (2011)
 Dramatic Publishing[5]
In Bloom
  • Risk Theatre Modern Tragedy Prize[69] (2019)
 Risk Theatre Anthology[70]
Entangled (co-written with Charly Evon Simpson) OFF-OFF BROADWAY: Gural Theatre[71] (2019)
  • New York Innovative Theatre Outstanding Original Full-Length Script[72] (nomination) (2019)
Triggered OFF-OFF BROADWAY: Cherry Lane Theatre[23](2018)
  • The Amoralists' 'Wright Club[28]
Our New Town (co-written with Jessie Dean with music by David Dabbon) UNIVERSITY: Northwestern University[73] (2020); Wagner College [74](2019)
Pigskin OFF-OFF BROADWAY: Theatre Row[75] starring Will Brittain (2010)

U.S. REGIONAL: Milwaukee Repertory[76] (2017)

  • Samuel French OOB Festival Winner[77]
 Concord Theatrical[47]

Other notable works include Mario & the Comet, a Theatre for Young Audiences musical written with composer David Dabbon and a short play entitled Fugue for Amorous Tornadoes.

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