Thomas Bradshaw is an American playwright whose work has been extensively reviewed. He is the recipient of PEN/Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater Award as the Emerging American Playwright and of the Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists award (2012).

Plays

* ''The Seagull/Woodstock, NY'' (2023) * ''Thomas & Sally'' (2017) * ''Fulfillment'' (2015) * ''Intimacy'' (2014) * ''Job'' (2012) * ''Burning'' (2011) * ''Mary'' (2011) * ''The Bereaved'' (2009) * ''Southern Promises'' (2008) * ''Purity'' (2007) * ''Prophet'' (2005)

Reactions

Bradshaw's work ''Thomas & Sally'' was met with protests because the play debates whether

Thomas Jefferson Thomas Jefferson (, 1743July 4, 1826) was an American Founding Fathers of the United States, Founding Father and the third president of the United States from 1801 to 1809. He was the primary author of the United States Declaration of Indepe ...

and

Sally Hemings Sarah "Sally" Hemings ( 1773 – 1835) was a Black people, black woman Slavery in the United States, enslaved to the third President of the United States Thomas Jefferson, inherited among many others from his father-in-law, John Wayles. Hemi ...

could have been in love. Protestors argue that there is no room for debate because Hemings was Jefferson's slave.

References

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