James Braly spent over twenty years researching life in a marital institution. He's performed his autobiographical stories on Marketplace, NPR, and at The Whitney Museum, Long Wharf Theatre, and The Moth, where he is the only two-time winner of the GrandSLAM and a featured performer on The Moth/TNT National Story Tour. His monologue, LIFE IN A MARITAL INSTITUTION, was featured at the 2007 Edinburgh Fringe Festival, opened this February in New York City at 59 East 59th Street Theaters, and will transfer to SOHO Playhouse starting on June 26, 2008.
"James Braly is a master storyteller. He appears to be so sane, but that is a ruse, and a fascinating one at that. This calm, grey-maned fellow is actually losing his mind twenty-four hours a day and delights in regaling his pleased and happy audiences with his absurd, hyper-observational perils-of-Pauline adventures."
-- Jonathan Ames, author of Wake Up, Sir!
"James Braly is, simply put, one of the finest storytellers in New York. In the tradition of John Irving and Spalding Gray, Braly writes openly about the things that most of us are afraid to admit we even think. With great humor and elegance, he reveals complex psychological and emotional truths, effectively taking us on a tour of our own inner lives.”
-- Catherine Burns, Artistic Director, The Moth
"If Walt Whitman had been straight, married, and hilarious he would have been James Braly."
-- Andy Borowitz, contributor, The New Yorker
"Humor, authenticity, edge and that rarest of all qualities, heart.”
-- Joyce Maynard, author of To Die For
"Riveting, hilarious, beautifully told and utterly real."
-- Melissa Bank, author of The Girls’ Guide to Hunting and Fishing
"Brilliant, heartfelt comedy of errors and neurotic torture."
-- Dan Kennedy, McSweeney's columnist, author of Rock On!