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DAVID CAUDLE (1962 - ) |
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Nationality: USA Email: Click here to contact Website: Click here to visit |
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Literary Agent: Abrams Artists Agency |
David Caudle's newest play, IN DEVELOPMENT will premiere at New Theatre in Miami in October '09. THE COMMON SWALLOW will premiere in New York at 45 Bleecker Street Theatre in September of '09. LIKENESS recently had its New York premiere at the Manhattan Theatre Source after a world premiere at New Theatre. (Carbonell Award Nominee for Best New Work; O'Neill Semifinalist; full development at the New Harmony Project 2006.) THE SUNKEN LIVING ROOM, published by Samuel French, received two World Premiere co-productions at Southern Rep in New Orleans and the New Theatre in Miami. (Winner, Ambie Award for Best Original Play, New Orleans; Carbonell Nominee for Best New Work, South Florida; Named Best Drama of '06 by the Miami Sun-Post. Winner, Southern New Plays Festival '05; Gold Medal Finalist-Pinter Review Prize for Drama '04, Finalist at the Lark's Playwrights Week '05.) David has developed THE COMMON SWALLOW, DAMSEL and THE SECOND HOUSE in the Dorothy Strelsin New American Writers' Group at Primary Stages, where he also teaches Playwriting. An early draft of THE SHORT FALL was a Finalist at the Lark's Playwrights Week. VISITING HOURS was a finalist at Premiere Stages New Play Festival '09. The play also won the Paulini-Howell New Play Competition in '08. It was developed in the Downstage Miami playwriting workshop. This summer, David will be on staff at the Sewanee Writer's Conference, where he has been a Walter E. Dakin Fellow and a Tennessee Williams Scholar. Earlier productions of his work include ONE HOT KITCHEN (under the previous title, Hell's Cuisinart) at the Samuel Beckett Theatre in New York and the Tamarind Theatre in Los Angeles, and SWING LOW! at Florida State University. David's one-act, FEET OF CLAY (Samuel French Winner, Heidemann Award Finalist) is published by Samuel French in its 29th Edition of Festival Plays. The short film version, directed by Carrie Preston, made festival rounds in '07. David has recently completed a feature-length screenplay, LOVE A NURSE, and is working on an original pilot for cable television. www.davidcaudle.org
Plays by David Caudle
Common Swallow, The | ||
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| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #61971 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy-Drama Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | doubling | |||||
Notes: | Currently in development in the Primary Stages Writers Group. | |||||
Synopsis: | A tapestry of Americana set in a small city in the Midwest on the day of a food festival. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Damsel | ||
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Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #98011 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Very pregnant Kathy grows jealous of her husband's fascination with an attractive dinner guest. But discovering the true source of his interest stirs up much deeper, darker emotions. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Feet of Clay | ||
| 1st Produced: | Samuel French Festival, Chernuchin Theatre | 2005 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Samuel French (29th Edition, Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays) | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #61970 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | The short film, directed by Carrie Preston and starring John G. Preston and Steven McElroy will premiere in the Miami Gay & Lesbian Film Festival in Spring '07 | |||||
Synopsis: | A supposedly straight married man confesses his sexual obsession for the feet of his best friend, Clay. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Hell's Cuisinart | ||
| 1st Produced: | Samuel Beckett Theatre, NY | 1997 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #61968 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy-Drama Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | doubling multiple roles | |||||
Notes: | aka One Hot Kitchen | |||||
Synopsis: | A slice and dice of life in five apartments stacked one atop the other in a Hell's Kitchen walk-up. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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In Development | ||
| 1st Produced: | New Theatre, Coral Gables, Florida | 2009 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #98010 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Sex, death and dramaturgy take the stage at a summer conference for aspiring playwrights and their legendary mentor. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Lady O | ||
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Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #61969 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy-Drama Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | When an otherwise pious and sincere woman tells a lie to protect a guilty love affair, her lover and parents react in ways that appall her. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Likeness | ||
| 1st Produced: | New Theatre, Coral Gables, Florida | 2006 | ||||
Company: | New Harmony Project | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #61965 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Comedy-Drama Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | An idealistic young portrait artist is hired to paint an idealized portrait of a wealthy Loyalist's spoiled daughter. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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One Hot Kitchen | ||
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Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #98012 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | n/a | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | previously titled Hell's Cuisinart | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Short Fall, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Teatro IATI | 03 Jun 2011 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #61967 | |||
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Genre: | Satire | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Finalist, the Lark Playwrights Week 2002 | |||||
Synopsis: | The Short Fall is a rollicking satire about America's current obsession with notoriety at any cost. Average housewife Tabby Fodder is horrified when her socially challenged family faces a fall from grace. It's not the fall that worries her, but the lack of vertical distance they're doomed to plummet. With wisdom gleaned from tabloids, she plots to raise her family to greater heights, so that when they fall, the world will hear the thud | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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South Beach Rapture | ||
| 1st Produced: | Dixon Place | 15 Aug 2010 | ||||
Company: | The Plum | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #117301 | |||
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Genre: | 1h 30m Local Manhattan, NYC | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | A sultry night. A deserted beach. Meteors streak the sky. A pretty New York socialite encounters two very different men. But which meeting was written in the stars? The forty-ish artist, or the sexy Latino? Or both? | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Sunken Living Room, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | New Theatre, Coral Gables, Florida | 2006 | ||||
Company: | co-production with Southern Rep of New Orleans | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | - | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #61964 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy-Drama Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Currently a 2007 Carbonell Award nominee for Best New Work; Named Best Drama of '06 by the Miami Sun Post; Winner of the Southern New Plays Festival '05; Lark Playwrights' Week Finalist, '05; Gold Medal Finalist for the Pinter Review Prize for Drama '04; | |||||
Synopsis: | Miami, 1978. 16-year-old Wade, a naive bookworm, struggles to keep his family's showpiece living room in order as his older brother freaks out on drugs and his brother's girlfriend tries to seduce him. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Visiting Hours | ||
| 1st Produced: | Downstage Miami | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #61966 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | workshop run by Rem Cabrera, Miami-Dade Dept. of Cultural Affairs. | |||||
Synopsis: | A longtime Lesbian couple's relationship is tested when their troubled adult son is arrested for an assault. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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