Short Biography

Timothy Braun is a writer living in Austin, TX. He likes the Indianapolis Colts, enjoys Indian food, and George is his favorite Beatle.

Long Biography

Timothy Braun is an American writer whose work includes plays, short stories, essays, and cultural criticism. His plays have been presented at The Asylum (NV), Ensemble Studio Theater (NY), The Flea (NY), Hyde Park (TX), The Loft (CO), The Ohio (NY), Ontological-Hysteric Theater (NY), The Neighborhood Playhouse (NY), Riverside Theater (Ireland), Seattle Fringe (WA), Theatre X (NM), The Vern Riffe Center (OH), and site-specific spaces across America. Audience, The Columbia Review, Euphony, Midway Journal, Northville Review, The Oregon Literary Review, Paper Wall, Playscripts Inc., Quay Journal of the Arts, Review Americana, Santa Fe Writer's Project, Silent City, and Word Riot, among others, have published Braun’s work. He blogs on sports for The Austin Chronicle, global travel and food for The Travel Channel, cultural criticism for SundayEd, the arts for culturebot.com, and religion for killingthebudha.com.

Braun has been an artist-in-residence at the Anderson Center for the Interdisciplinary Studies (MN), Blue Mountain Center for the Arts and Humanities (NY), The Djreassi Residency (CA), Edward F. Albee Foundation (NY), Exile Ltd. (Ireland), HERE Arts Center in New York City, MacDowell Colony (NH), Prairie Center for the Arts (IL), Robert MacNamara Foundation (ME), Santa Fe Art Institute (NM), and Ucross Foundation (WY). Braun is a former curator of The American Living Room at HERE Arts Center, a festival of new performance. The Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation, John Anson Kittredge Fund, and a Dorothy Norton Clay Fellowship from the Mary Anderson Center For The Arts in Indiana have supported his writing.

Education includes a BS from Ball State University’s College of Sciences and Humanities and College of Fine Arts in History (20th Century American emphasis) and Theater, an MA from the University of New Mexico’s College of Fine Arts in Theater and Dance (writing emphasis), where he was a Robert Hartung Fellow, and an MFA from Columbia University’ School of the Arts in Theater (writing emphasis). He has been a guest lecturer at Bradley University, the Univeristy of Colorado at Boulder, and presently teaches at the University of Texas at San Antonio's Department of Writing, and St. Edward's University’s Department of English and Cultural Foundations programs.

Currently, Braun is working on a play entitled The Memphis Project for Theatrical Outfit in Atlanta, a series of 22 short plays for the city of Santa Fe, a novel called Mon Oeil, and an article about Katrina hurricane refugees in Austin, which shall be donated to the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi. Braun is a member of the Associated Writing Programs, CCCC, Theater Communications Group, the PEN America Center, and Austin Script Works. He lives in Austin, TX with his dog, Dusty-Danger.