Thomas Bradshaw (playwright)

Thomas Bradshaw is an American playwright whose work has been extensively reviewed.^[1][2] He is the recipient of PEN/Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater Award as the Emerging American Playwright and of the Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists award (2012).^[3]

Plays

• The Seagull/Woodstock, NY (2023)
• Thomas & Sally (2017)^[4]
• Fulfillment (2015)^[5]
• Intimacy (2014)^[6]
• Job (2012)^[7]
• Burning (2011)^[8]
• Mary (2011)^[9]
• The Bereaved (2009)^[10]
• Southern Promises (2008)^[11]
• Purity (2007)^[12]
• Prophet (2005)^[13]

Reactions

Bradshaw's work Thomas & Sally was met with protests because the play debates whether Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings could have been in love. Protestors argue that there is no room for debate because Hemings was Jefferson's slave.^[14]