Brayden Stallman

Brayden Stallman is a director, writer, and podcaster working in New York and currently serves as Founding Artistic Director of Next Life Theatre Company and Database Associate for New York Theatre Workshop. His work focuses on adaptation, classical text, queer performance, and multi-media storytelling.

Recent theatrical work include the upcoming for bastards: a bastardization of King Lear, a workshop of a new adaptation of The Scarlet Pimpernel, his original adaptation Achilles: The Next Iliad (Director) adapted with Ava Pirie, two productions of his dance-theatre adaptation of Sheridan le Fanu’s Carmilla (Director and Playwright) workshopped in 2023 at Muhlenberg College and mounted at the 2024 Philadelphia Fringe Festival produced by Next Life Theatre Company at The Bluver Theatre at the Drake, as well as productions of Tick, Tick… BOOM! (Director) and Medea (Director). Stallman has also produced the feature length documentary Ars Mordeni: The Art of Dying.

Stallman’s photography has been featured in The Climb (2024) by C.A. Johnson, directed by Catherine Slusar. Pieces of his video editing work with Alias Solutions for clients such as MiraVista Behavioral Health Center and MHA have been featured on WWLP 22 News.

Stallman’s podcast work has been highlighted by production of the podcast Return to Camp Half-Blood, producing FringeFiles: An Incomplete Oral History in collaboration with FringeArts, and guest appearances on podcasts such as Seaweed Brain, Through the Mist, and The Best Dam Camp.

Stallman is a graduate of Muhlenberg College with a BA in Theatre and Media-Communications and has worked with New York Theatre Workshop, Quintessence Theatre Group, and InterAct Theatre Company. @brydnstllmn