Jeffrey Stanley is a screenwriter, playwright and director. He has won numerous screenwriting awards and
has optioned or been hired to write scripts for Peter Farrelly & Charles B. Wessler, GreeneStreet Films,
Barbara Kopple's Cabin Creek Films, Andrew Lauren Productions, and others. His award-winning short
film LADY IN A BOX starring Sarita Choudhury has been licensed numerous times for international broadcast
and distribution. He has worked as a script consultant for UK-based Initialize Films and an analyst and
judge for the Script Savvy Screenplay Contest. Stanley's stage play TESLA'S LETTERS (Samuel French, 2000) premiered to rave reviews Off Broadway in 1999 and went on to national and international productions
including the Edinburgh Fringe and most recently a 2007 Chicago premiere. He has appeared as a guest writer in the Washington Post, New York Times,
Time Out New York, New York Press and Brooklyn Rail. Stanley holds an MFA from the Dramatic Writing Program at Tisch where he studied under playwright David Ives, and a BFA from Tisch in Film & Television Production. He teaches screenwriting and theatre courses at NYU Tisch School of the Arts and at Drexel University in Philadelphia.
