SCRIPTOGRAPHY of Mike Brayndick
AND PRODUCTION TIMELINE
Virtual Productions - YouTube: On The Spot Theatre Company
Elevator Music, a seven-part Zoom production that combines science fiction and contemporary
comedy with a double love story, broadcast Spring 2021 and ongoing.
Episode 1: The Dream Keeper Meets the Girl
Episode 2: Henry Meets the Girl of His Dreams
Episode 3: The Music Rising
Episode 4: Parallel Lives
Episode 5: A Glint of Gold
Episode 6: Of Storm Clouds and Sheer Walls
Episode 7: Dreams Are Not Just for the Future
A Play On Words, written by Emma Brayndick with monologues by Mike Brayndick (listed below), and
co-directed by Mike and Emma Brayndick, is a nine-part episodic, dramatic comedy. What do Physics,
K-Pop, Beowulf, and Jungian psychology have in common? Words of course! Playing Summer 2020
and ongoing.
Freja’s Monologue: The Answer My Friend
Billy’s Monologue: A Monologue for Monday
Lexi’s Monologue: A Lexicon for Lexi
Raef’s Monologue: In the Beginning Was the Word
Deliberate Acts, a short Zoom production in which a couple celebrate their anniversary at home while
watching astronauts walk in space. Is love an accidental free fall or more of a deliberate act?
Broadcast Autumn 2020 and ongoing.
I’m Glad You Made It, a short lyrical piece for five actors who speak as if they are one unified voice
about resilience and renewal during troubled times. Broadcast Autumn 2020 and ongoing.
Working it Out, a short Zoom production in which a young woman in love, Sylvia, rings her boyfriend
for their usual evening chat, and finds that he is preoccupied with strenuous self-development, putting
a bit of ridiculous strain on their long-distance relationship. Available Summer 2020 and ongoing.
Double Date, a one-act comedy about a dating experiment created by a young science teacher to test if
she has met the man of her dreams. Can anyone prevent Denise Arnold from practically splitting
herself in two? Also includes Denise’s loyal roommate who was once also her girlfriend. Playing Spring
2020 and ongoing.
The Ninth Planet, an hour-long one-act drama in which old values and old friendships are tested when
old secrets are revealed on a late-summer weekend in Lincoln Square. Available Spring 2020 and
ongoing.
Theater Productions – Various Venues
Sons and Lovers, produced as a co-production with Greenhouse Theater Center, Summer 2019
Roundelay, a one-act farce produced at Berger Park Coach House Theater, Spring 2019
Called Home By the Sea, a magical romance with dance and music, produced at Berger Park Coach
House Theater, Spring 2019
Scenes for a Green World, set in a city greenhouse where two best friends meet over the course of a
year to chat, one a survivor or wartime Czechoslovakia and the other a survivor of incarceration of
Japanese Americans at Heart Mountain in the U.S., also featuring the granddaughter of one and
nephew of the other, produced at Greenhouse Theater Center, Summer 2018
Brick Wall and a triple-bill of one-act comedies, This, That, and The Other Thing! (Fragments from the
Permanent Collection, That is That, and Only You Can Think That) produced at Berger Park Coach House
Theater, Spring 2018
Lisette Dances Divine, a comedy with music and dance set in a speak easy in 1920’s Chicago that
serves as a dress shop during the day, and produced at Greenhouse Theater Center, Summer 2017
Sex Lives of the Zebra Finch, a full-length comedy about two families who are intertwined by both past
encounters and the present relationship of their children, produced at Berger Park Coach House
Theater, Spring 2016
Eugène, an adaptation of Balzac's Père Goriot, produced at the Greenhouse Theater Center, Summer
2015
Lost and Found, a modern comedy set in a lily pond in Lincoln Park, that follows three stories of people
who meet at the pond, and explores modern ideas about marriage and love, produced at Berger Park
Coach House Theater, Spring 2015
Home of the Gentry, an adaptation of Ivan Turgenyev's novel of the same title, produced at the
Greenhouse Theater Center, Summer 2014
What About Martha?, a one-act farce about secrets revealed too soon, produced at City Lit Theater,
December 2013 and together with its companion play about revelations delayed, All About Armando!,
at Berger Park Coach House Theater, April 2017
How to Make a Rainbow, a play about the art and life of Joseph Cornell, produced at the Greenhouse
Theater Center, July 2013
Love to the Third Power, two one-act plays by Mike Brayndick and one by Emma Brayndick, Shifts,
produced at the Rivendell Theatre, June 2013
Symmetry Breaking, explores the intersection of art, science, and war, produced at West Stage Raven
Theatre Complex, August 2012
End Game at Jansen School, a collaborative short play project with Professor Tania Giordani, about a
school closing and the effect it has on parents, children, and the school principal, for group discussion
and social action, performed at various Chicago-area community centers and schools, 2011-2012
Swordswomen of San Gimignano, an action comedy set during the Renaissance and featuring women
characters who also happen to be good with swords, workshopped and public reading 2008, produced
at New Rock Theater, Summer 2011
What Holds the Heart, a selection of one-act and linked scenes about love, produced at New Rock
Theater, Winter 2010
Charley’s Sonata, produced at La Costa Theatre, Spring 2010
Brick Wall, produced at Gorilla Tango, 2009 for a limited run. Re-developed and produced for a full run
at the Berger Coach House Theater, Spring 2018
Spring Comes to the Kiang Si Mountains, drama with music and dance set in the Tang Dynasty for
children and adults, scenes used for school arts night and available for middle school to college
production
Pieces of Klee, about the art and life of Paul Klee, performed by students and teachers at Baker
Demonstration School, 2006, and expanded into a full-length drama with movement, produced at the
Greenhouse Theater Center, Summer 2016
Where There’s A Will There’s a Way, full-length musical for children set in Westminster Abbey
How to Make a Rainbow, about the art and life of Joseph Cornell, developed at the Julliard, in
residency at Connecticut College, reading in New York City at Cap21, staged reading in St. Ives Festival,
UK, 2005, scenes in showcase What Holds the Heart 2010, produced at the Greenhouse Theater
Center, Summer 2013
Fragments from the Permanent Collection, expanded radio play version, 1996
Walter Chases the Moon and the Stars Can’t Catch Him, a play for radio, 1996
Sons and Lovers, adaptation of the D.H. Lawrence novel, produced by Traffic of the Stage in London,
England, toured throughout England and Wales, and performed at the Bloomsbury Theatre in London
in 1996
Père Goriot, adaptation of the Honoré de Balzac novel, reading, London, England, Traffic of the Stage,
1994
The Watch, one-act tragedy of a wartime family, inspired by a short story by Polish writer, Victor
Woroslyzki
Heroes, a collaborative play at Columbia College with Susan Padveen and Jeff Ginsberg and others
The Artist’s Studio, a play about Gustave Courbet, with Jeff Ginsberg, performed by high school
students in the Columbia College summer acting institute
Fugitive Dreams, screenplay for Squaw Valley Screenwriters Workshop
Do Pandas Really Eat Sheep, full-length play of monologues and voices
Fourplay, one-act comedy developed at Playwrights Center of Chicago
A Question of Loyalty, full-length play developed at the Playwrights Center of Chicago, 1990
Connecting Flight, one-act play produced at the Bailiwick Directors Festival, 1990, in What Holds the
Heart, New Rock Theater, 2010 and at The Milwaukee Avenue Arts Festival, 2012
Fragments from the Permanent Collection, one-act, produced at Chicago Playwright’s Center 1989, the
Theater Building, Off-Off Loop Theater Festival, 1990, by Dancing on the Spot as a dance performance
piece, as well as at Berger Park in Chicago, and in New York by Leatherstockings Theater Company.
In the Garden of the Prison and Anna Gerhardt, two related one-acts set in post-World War II Germany
produced at the Chicago Playwrights Center, 1988 and Station WJUF, broadcast in Chicago and New
York