BRAD McENTIRE: ABOUT

Brad McEntire is a Texan native and works primarily as a playwright, solo performer and educator. His plays have been produced/developed on stages around the world over the last twenty years. In 2015, McEntire served as the first theatre-artist-in-residence at the Kathy George Indie Artist Residency in Ashford, Oregon. Recently, he was named one of three winners of the 2018 Texas Playwrights Festival for his full-length play Que Será, Giant Monster.

Three of his short plays, I Brought Home a Chupacabra, Dinosaur and Robot Stop a Train and Raspberry Fizz are published through Dribble Funk Books and are available on Amazon.com. He is also the author of the comics collection I Hate Hawk Season and the childrens book The Secret Island. He is a satellite member of The Playwright's Center in Minneapolis, part of the New Play Exchange online and has studied playwriting with Will Power as part of the Dallas Playwrights Workshop at Southern Methodist University. He has contributed articles to TheaterJones, the Stage Directions Blog and at TheSoloPerformer.com.

McEntire also has regional and NYC credits as a stage actor and was a commercial actor with Mary Collins Agency from 2008-2015. For the last several years McEntire has toured his original one-person shows Cyrano A-Go-Go, Chop, Robert's Eternal Goldfish and The Beast of Hyperborea to venues and festivals all over North America. Since 2008 he has served as artistic director of the small-batch theatre company Audacity Theatre Lab.

McEntire also served as the founding producer of the Dallas Solo Fest (2014-2019) and since 2010 has served as chief editor of the website TheSoloPerformer.com. In 2017 he began to produce and host a short-form podcast called The Cultivated Playwright. where he talks about the artistic issues and personal growth. He holds a BFA in theatre and performance arts from the College of Santa Fe and a MA in theatre (with a concentration on playwriting) from Texas Woman's University.

McEntire loves connecting with other artists as well as readers/ audience members via YouTube and Instagram, so be sure to reach out!

For more about Brad McEntire, read his extended bio... HERE

Notable Press And Representative Interviews

(more on the PRESS page of this website)

Q-and-A with TheSoloPerformer.com (2019)

The Art of Flying Solo (2015)
Number One, Baby (2014)

Going Places: Rocket Packs, Tigers and Goldfish (2014)

CHOP Goes Out On a Limb (2013)

Kitsch with Significance (2013)

I Interview Playwrights Part 585: Brad McEntire by Adam Szymkowicz (2013)

Podcast Talk with Brad McEntire of Audacity Theatre Lab (2010)

McEntire-ly Funny by Andrea Grimes, Dallas Observer (2006)