“Too good an idea not to do”

Tedious Brief Productions began like all great ideas: as a joke.

In 2008, a man named Kevin Pease published a blog post with a few lines of Pulp Fiction translated into Shakespearean-style dialogue. The post went viral and Pease eventually created a wiki for others to add onto what he’d started. After a few weeks and only a few rough scenes written, interest died down. That’s when Aaron Greer approached Ben Tallen and Brian Watson-Jones with the idea of continuing the project, saying that it was simply “too good an idea not to do.”

Fringe Festival hits

The three edited and reworked the pieces that had been written and created the remaining scenes to finish the play they called Bard Fiction. Along with Noë Tallen, they produced the play as part of the 2009 Minnesota Fringe Festival where the play received rave reviews and sold the highest number of tickets of any show at the ’09 festival.

In 2011, the four returned to the Minnesota Fringe Festival to produce Tempests and in 2013 to produce The Final Act, each also written by Greer, Tallen, and Watson-Jones.

Tedious Brief is everywhere!

Check out all the theatres in North America that have produced or are producing Tedious Brief Productions plays.  Interested in producing one of the plays at your theatre?  Get in touch!