J. B. Edwards

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J.B. Edwards (born October 3, 1951) is an American playwright known for works including The Sanctuary, Einstein's Secret Letters, and Three Women Dating Henry. His works are a study of typical American lives in the late twentieth century, and were influenced by the great American playwrights Arthur Miller and Edward Albee. Edwards continues to write new plays for the New York theater scene with such audience favorites as 'A Family Reunion, William's Last Chance and A Delicate Matter.

Edwards was born in The Bronx, New York City, and after a Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota, did a stint in the Army. Coming back to New York for good, Edwards began a career as a writer, poet and novelist (China Dreams). Ironically, his first artistic success was as a painter, with his first shows in New York in the eighties. He continues to be a prolific painter of edgy abstract art, and his paintings are represented in several galleries and corporations in the U.S. Later in his career, Edwards began to write plays, and enjoys a continuing success in the Off-Broadway theater scene. He recently ventured into film work, writing and directing the movie version of his play Three Women Dating Henry.

J.B. Edwards is a member of the Dramatists Guild, the National Arts Club, and the Players of New York.