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Brad Goren-Wilson

Actor/Playwright

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About

Brad Goren-Wilson makes vital, courageous, and inclusive theater as an actor, playwright, and professor.

 

As a professional actor, brad has been a company member at History Alive in Salem, Theater at Monmouth in Maine, and the Bread Loaf School of English in Vermont and an actor at HERE Arts Center in New York; The Jar in Boston;  The Hanover Repertory Theatre in Worcester; Interrobang, 16th Street, and Three Crows in Chicago; and Trinity Repertory Company, Wilbury Theatre Group, and the Brown/Trinity Consortium in Providence, where he received an Emerging Artist Award (We Go Round and Round) and a BroadwayWorld Best Actor in a Musical award (Side Show).

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As a playwright, Brad's work has appeared at Trinity Repertory Company, River Street Playhouse, Hudson Stage, Yale Cabaret, and many schools and universities across the country, including Princeton, Brown, and Northwestern. His play NÄ•balah was a semifinalist for the Blue Ink Award 2020 and a finalist at the Kitchen Dog New Works Festival 2020. Hollow Bones: A Parrot Play was selected at the Purple Crayon Festival and was a finalist at the New Victory LabWorks program. His musical The Whale In the Hudson was nominated for a Motif award for the best youth production.  His play Socks On the Wall was read at Trinity Rep in Spring 2022 and his latest play Two Catchers is currently a finalist for the Distillery New Works Festival 2025 at Seattle Public Theater. Brad was the recipient of the 2013 Alan S. Downer Prize and the 2017 David Wickham Memorial Playwriting Prize.

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Brad holds an MFA from the Brown University / Trinity Rep Program in Acting and teaches theater and speech at Centenary University and Salem State University.

Projects and News

Brad will be starting this fall as a Teaching Artist at the McCarter Theatre Center!

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Brad was most recently seen as the Chorus Leader in The Curse of the House of Atreus at the Bread Loaf Theater.

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Brad's latest play Two Catchers was selected for the 2025 Distillery New Works Festival at Seattle Public Theater.​

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