About the Artist

Since 2015, Lights, Theatre, Action! a DMV theatre company has presented provocative plays by Virginia playwright James F. Bruns.  Starting with American Lit,  a collection of one act plays about writers described as "serious and intriguing" by the WASHINGTON POST.  One of those plays called, Going to Meet the Man about Tennessee Williams was prize winning at the Sixth Annual 10:4:Tenn 10-Minute Play contest in Columbus, Mississippi. 

 In 2016 came, Confederates the first play in Bruns' Trilogy of the Confederacy and was described as "compelling" by DCist magazine.  And then two years later was the controversial work, Black Confederates said to be "eye-opening and relevant to today" by BROADWAY WORLD.  In 2017, a revisiting of the JFK assassination called Lancer and Lace was depicted as "gripping and a solid dramatic concept" by DC THEATRE SCENE. In 2019 came,  Caribbean Command an anti-war, anti-vax drama, viscerally hated by the critics.  Although in 2023, an excerpt from this play was published in the Qutub Minar Review, an international anthology of short plays. In 2023, during the Philadelphia Fringe Festival the Arden Theatre was the site of the final play in the trilogy called, Alas Confederates. And last year, a WWII drama titled Fatherland was performed during Philly Fringe and that qualified the play allowing a monologue to be selected into The Best Men's Stage Monologues 2026 to be published by Smith & Kraus in November.

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