James Bosely is an American playwright, novelist, and educator. He wrote the feature screenplay Fun, adapted from his stage play of the same name, which was released commercially and played at the Sundance and Toronto film festivals, and for which he was nominated for an IFP Spirit Award for Best First Screenplay. His plays have been staged at the MCC Theatre, Eugene O'Neill Playwrights Conference, Emerging Artists, UP Theater, the Williamstown Theatre Fringe Festival, and many theaters abroad in a variety of translations. He is artistic director of UP Theater Company. He has taught at Manhattan College, the Broadway Theater Institute, and Long Island University. He holds a B.A. from Queens College and an M.F.A. in dramatic writing from New York University.
Portrait by Gary Gershoff
