BREN DUBAY

Coming Home to Write

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Welcome to this work in progress … a website in its early stages. Have you ever gotten sidetracked? For a number of years, my focus was writing. Then it wasn’t. I got distracted trying to save the world. I got distracted more than once getting this website going. Time to get back on track.

Writing is nothing if not about discipline and accountability. This site is meant to help with both. Come by often and see if it is working.

Writing and writing about writing.

Bren

Recent Blog Posts
Much Ado

Porn?

Once upon a time, I was so young I thought all artists were progressives. I had taken the long way round to writing but there I was, a finalist for The Texas Playwrights’ Festival

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February 12, 2021
Tools and work bench
Much Ado

Use Your Hands

Not that I go around dreaming about biblical characters or saints … but Joseph showed up the other night. Yeah, that Joseph.

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December 19, 2020

News

Writing for Mystic Activists

A week with eleven fellow writers of enormous talent
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Road Trip to Nashville, TN?

My play Irish Mist selected by Tennessee Women’s Theater Project
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Writing About Writing

Kindred Spirits

Brown had an idea for a screenplay. He took that idea and turned it into a novella
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The Math is Simple …

If you write 1,000 words a day
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Flannery O’Connor

Words of wisdom from Flannery
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What People are Saying

Peter Karapetkov

To this day I would consider Bren’s ability to deeply understand a character and create a multifaceted and unpredictable presence on stage one of her ultimate strengths as a writer …

Michael Harren

Bren’s unfaltering belief in the value of theater and her relentless passion for creating has changed me as an artist and as a person …

Neil “Sandy” Havens

I would characterize Bren’s writing as character-driven, enigmatic, almost mystical … Bren’s own background as an actor and director serves her well in that her plays are solidly stage-worthy …

Kyle Henry

Bren continues to be an inspiration as an artist who charts her own fiercely independent course through life while remaining deeply committed to the building and sustaining of community …

Suzanne Phillips Jennings

An enormous talent, Bren’s work is inventive and versatile in its scope. She is a writer whose work speaks to the human spirit …

Terence Lamude

As a director working with Bren … I found her Zen-like in her patience, shrewd in her analysis, cogent in her probing, welcoming to all input and enthusiastic in her willingness to work … 

Jeffrey Green

Bren has the rare combination of genuine demonstrated talent in her own work and the ability to foster, with compassion and understanding, like talents in young students …

Ted Swindley

Bren Dubay is a unique voice in American theatre. She needs to be heard and her plays need to be produced …

Suzanne Savoy

Bren puts all her resources behind whatever project she takes on, in the meanwhile drawing on every talent—recognized or hidden—of her co-conspirators in artistic creation …

Bryan Coley

Bren knocked our socks off … she is one of those rare talents who has a distinct voice that is rich in culture and character. Though her primary background is in playwriting … her voice would make a major contribution to whatever genre in which she chooses to write …
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