J. Scott Bronson is a middle-aged man from San Diego with one wife, five children, a cat and a dog. He studied theatre at Albert Einstein Jr. High School, James Madison Sr. High School, San Diego Mesa Jr. College, and BYU. He has written a dozen plays or so including a couple of Mayhew Award winners and the Association For Mormon Letters’ 2001 best drama, Stones. He is a published playwright, and fiction writer, a stage director who has served on the boards of two theatre companies in Utah County, one of which he co-founded and for which he was the Artistic Director. He has acted in scores of stage, television and film productions. He is a cancer survivor and a couch-potato. He likes Jazz, Blues, Classical and Rock-and-Roll music. He loves Big Macs, pizza and Cap’n Crunch and it shows.
AWARDS:
1. 2nd place Mayhew Playwriting Contest at BYU; Heartlight: A Domestic Suite; 1984 (I think)
2. 2nd place Mayhew Playwriting Contest at BYU; Arthur’s Place: A Romantic Fantasy of Sorts; 1986
3. Winner Sunstone Mormon One-act Playwriting Contest; Confessions; 1994
4. Winner Sunstone Mormon One-act Playwriting Contest; Altars, 1994
5. 3rd place Writers of the Future fiction contest; A Report From the Terran Project; 2nd quarter, 1995
6. Best Drama of 2001 Association for Mormon Letters; Stones; 2001
PLAYS AUTHORED
- Stones (at Leicester Bay Theatricals) Winner AML Best Drama 2001
- Brothers (at Zion Theatricals)
- Dial Tones (at Zion Theatricals)
- Heartlight
- Arthur’s Place
- Confessions
NOVELS AUTHORED
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- Stones — A Novel (information soon)