Date: Friday February 20th, Friday February 27th, Friday March 6th
Time: 8pm
Admission: $20 ( Tickets Here )
Location: Morbid Anatomy Museum, 424 Third Avenue, 11215 Brooklyn.

Don’t miss Jeffrey Stanley’s autobiographical dark comedy with music about growing up next to a funeral home and his ongoing explorations to contact the dead starting when he was a teenager. A funeral for the living. A coming-of-age embalming. A suicidal decapitation by coal train. A cross-dressing hillbilly named Doodlebug. This true-to-life monologue resurrects and converses with the cadaverous–from Philadelphia’s Laurel Hill Cemetery to a British colonial era graveyard in India to ancient Greek tomb worshippers. The show concludes with an audience-led seance using an antique Ouija board and electronic “ghost box” to make an earnest attempt to contact the dead. Paranormal activity guaranteed.

Writer-performer Jeffrey Stanley teaches screenwriting, theatre history and script analysis courses at New York University Tisch School of the Arts and at Drexel University Westphal College of Media Arts & Design. He is one of 24 writers out of 16,100 entrants to receive the first Amtrak Writers Residency. His most recent screenplay, Little Rock, a bio-pic about artist Copy Berg, the first officer to legally challenge the US military for anti-gay discrimination, is currently in development with Pink Slip Pictures. He has appeared as a guest writer in the New York Times, Washington Post, Time Out New York, New York Press, and the Brooklyn Rail. His wartime drama Tesla’s Letters (Samuel French, 2000) premiered to rave reviews Off Broadway in 1999 at The Ensemble Studio Theatre and went on to the Edinburgh Fringe and other productions. Other plays include Medicine,Man commissioned by the Mill Mountain Theatre, Beautiful Zion: A Book of the Dead which premiered in the 2011 Philly Fringe, and The Golden Horseshoe: A Lecture On Tragedy which he performed in New York City at the Gershwin Hotel and Don’t Tell Mama. In the 2012 Philly Fringe he produced Bidisha Dasgupta’s hit classical Indian and Modern dance show Einstein/Tagore: Seashore of Endless Worlds. He was a 2011-12 PDC artist-in-residence at Plays & Players Theatre. Stanley is a past president of the board of directors of the New York Neo-Futurists. He wrote and directed the award-winning short film Lady in a Box starring Sarita Choudhury. Stanley has won numerous screenwriting awards and has either optioned or been hired to write screenplays for Peter Farrelly & Charles B. Wessler & GreeneStreet Films, Buckeye Entertainment & Cabin Creek Films, Andrew Lauren Productions, indie producer Matthew Myers and others. He has been a judge and script analyst for the ScriptSavvy Monthly Screenwriting Competition and a script consultant for UK-based Initialize Films. Stanley has been a resident of Yaddo, a Copeland Fellow at Amherst College, a guest lecturer at the Imaginary Academy summer theatre and film workshop in Croatia sponsored by the Soros Foundation, and he was an editorial advisor to Boston University’s Center for Millennial Studies’ book on apocalypse movements The End That Does (Equinox Books, 2006). He holds an MFA in Dramatic Writing and a BFA in Film & Television from NYU Tisch School of the Arts, with a minor in cultural anthropology.