About Alan

Alan Flurry is an Athens, Georgia-based novelist, playwright, and musician. His stage play BAMIYAN TO BIRMINGHAM was included in the Sunday Shortlist readings by the Bechdel Group (NYC) in December 2021. TOO WONDERFUL FOR ANYBODY, Flurry’s new stage play about the climate crisis, had two staged readings in May 2023.

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Director of communications for the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Georgia, Flurry has produced dozens of video interviews with visiting artists, scholars, and journalists. In November 2011, he traveled to Venice with the ARCO Chamber Orchestra from the Hodgson School of Music to create a documentary of their performance at the opera house La Fenice. Sponsored by UNESCO, the concert was part of a wider conference on the future of the city in the context of global climate change. The one-hour documentary ARCO in Venice aired on the Georgia Public Broadcasting affiliate WUGA-TV in the fall of 2012. In June 2013, ARCO in Venice received a Merit Award from the Georgia Association of Broadcasters.

Flurry produced and directed the documentary short Art Rosenbaum, Mural in Progress, which premiered at the AthFest film festival in 2013 and Roma Amor, which premiered at the Georgia Museum of Art in 2014.

Flurry’s original feature screenplay for The Next Paris was an official selection of the 2019 Beverly Hills Film Festival. Flurry is married to the artist and writer Amy Flurry.