JAMES BRALY is the writer and performer of the monologue Life in a Marital Institution, which premiered at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, sold-out 59E59 Theaters in New York City, and transferred Off Broadway to the Soho Playhouse. Reviewed as “gaspingly funny” (Variety), “never less than excellent” (The New York Times), and “a masterpiece of storytelling” (The List), the show has played over 120 performances and will tour nationally in 2011, presented by Meredith Vieira Productions.

Optioned for film & television by Meredith Vieira Productions, with James attached as the writer, Life in a Marital Institution is also a forthcoming memoir from St. Martin's Press.

His stories have been broadcast nationally on This American Life, NPR and Marketplace, and his essays appear in the recently published anthologies, Afterbirth (St. Martin's Press) and Mr. Beller's Neighborhood (W.W. Norton).

James has performed autobiographical stories at The Whitney Museum, Long Wharf Theatre, and The Moth, where he was featured on the TNT National Story Tour and is the first two-time winner of the Moth GrandSlam storytelling competition.

His full-length monologue, The Monthly Nut, directed by Seth Barrish (Sleepwalk with Me) is in development at The Barrow Group Theatre.

His full-length monologue, Asylum, premiered at Dixon Place in 2010, and is in development as a television series with Meredith Vieira Productions.