FARCE. ABSURDITY. EXISTENTIALISM. GUARANTEED.
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with moral ambiguity — and the occasional twist of history.
Plays
Braddon Mendelson | Encounter New Plays From an Award-Winning Playwright
Plays
Browse my catalog of farces, histories, satires, farcical histories,
satirical farces, and other miscellaneous theatrical mischief.
Awards
Awards
Awards, Festivals, Et cetera
- 2026 Semifinalist, AACT New Play Fest — “Resisted Living”
- 2025 Recipient, The Element, The MAIN Theatre — “Provenance”
- 2023 Finalist, Vintage Theatre’s Best New Play Festival — “Gallows Falls”
- 2023 Semi-Finalist, Soop to Nuts Short Play Festival — “Juneteenth”
- 2022 Winner, Best New Play, Long Beach Playhouse New Works Festival — “Rembrandt Perfected”
- 2022 Second Rounder, Austin Film Festival, Playwriting Division — “Rembrandt Perfected”
- 2022 Finalist, Players Theatre Short Play Festival, New York — “Old Friends”
- 2009 Second Place, Humorfeed Annual Satire News Competition
- 1999 Warner Bros. Writers Workshop
- 1994 Honorable Mention, HBO New Writers Project
- 1994 Winner, America’s Best Annual Writing Competition, The Writers Foundation
About Braddon
Braddon Mendelson is a playwright whose work explores the friction between history, comedy, and the beautifully absurd. He is the author of thirteen full-length plays, including Rembrandt Perfected (an historical farce), winner of Best New Play at the Long Beach Playhouse New Works Festival. The play received its world premiere under his direction at The MAIN in Los Angeles in 2023.
His other works include Passing Wind, an absurdist farce; Resisted Living, a farcical dark‑comedy about aging parents, adult children, and some very questionable choices; Gallows Falls (Next Stage Press), a Vermont ghost story; The WaterWay, a musical about the rise of Los Angeles; and Minor Character, a backstage comedy.
Before turning to the stage, Braddon worked in film and television, producing the feature Boogie Boy and writing for international television, including Ritas Welt, Germany’s top‑rated comedy. A copy of his play Rembrandt Perfected is housed at the Bill Douglas Cinema Museum, a major UK film and media archive, part of the University of Exeter. Inclusion in their collection signals that Rembrandt Perfected has cultural and scholarly relevance beyond its stage life.
A graduate of California State University, Northridge and the Warner Bros. Writers Workshop, Braddon lives in Stevenson Ranch, California, with his wife and son. He is currently engaged in the somewhat absurd task of building a full‑size Boeing 727 out of paper and glue.
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