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DAVID CALE |
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Literary Agent: Abrams Artists Agency |
David Cale was born in Luton in England where he began his career as the lead singer of the rock band Cold Eyed Driver and singing Gershwin and Irving Berlin songs on the London Underground. At the age of twenty he moved to New York City, and started to write his own songs, which evolved into monologues often incorporating live music. David is the author and performer of seven solo shows including 'Palomino', 'A Likely Story', 'Lillian', 'Deep in a Dream of You', 'Smooch Music' and 'The Redthroats'. His work has been presented throughout the U.S. at venues including Playwrights Horizons, The Public Theater, Second Stage, New York Theatre Workshop, P.S. 122, The Kitchen, Museum of Modern Art, New York, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Goodman Theatre, Chicago and the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles. His monologues have been featured on Public Radio's 'This American Life', 'The Next Big Thing', for which he was a regular contributor, BBC Radio 4's 'Afternoon Play' and in the HBO Special, 'Bette Midler's Mondo Beyondo'. He wrote the Book, Lyrics, Co-composed the Music for, and appeared as Floyd in the musical 'Floyd and Clea Under the Western Sky', which premiered at The Goodman Theatre and ran Off-Broadway at Playwrights Horizons. He is the author of the plays 'Betwixt' and 'Nightwear'. He wrote and narrated the text for choreographer Charles Moulton's dance 'Chickens' performed by Mikhail Baryshnikov's White Oak Dance Project. He has written lyrics for songs performed and recorded by artists including Deborah Harry, Elvis Costello, Jimmy Scott and The Jazz Passengers. As an actor, David appeared on Broadway in 'The Three Penny Opera' (The Roundabout) and Off Broadway in the U.S. premieres of 'Mouth to Mouth', '2000 Years', 'My Night With Reg', 'Curtains', all with The New Group. He made his film debut in Woody Allen's 'Radio Days' and has subsequently appeared in a dozen films including 'Two Lovers', 'The Slaughter Rule' and 'Pollock'. He is the recipient of two Obie Awards, an L.A. Drama-Logue Critics Award, an Outer Critics Circle Nomination for Best New Off-Broadway Musical, two N.Y.F.A. Fellowships, a Solo Performance Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, a Sundance Institute Screenwriter's Lab Fellowship, two Bessie Awards for Outstanding Creative Achievement, and was a writer-in-residence at the O'Neill Playwrights Conference, Yaddo and the 2009 Sundance Theatre Lab.
Plays by David Cale
Betwixt | ||
| 1st Produced: | The New Group, New York | 2000 | ||||
Company: | The New Group, New York | |||||
| 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 | #88035 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | A series of monologues and a duet that investigates the emotional experience of two displaced English people living in America. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Deep in a Dream of You | ||
| 1st Produced: | The Goodman Studio Theatre, Chicago | 1992 | ||||
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 | #57397 | |||
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Genre: | Solo Show | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - | ||
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Floyd and Clea Under the Western Sky | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2005 | |||||
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 | #66216 | |||
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Genre: | Country-Western Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
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Notes: | aka Studebaker / The New Release (Eugene O'Neill Theater Center, Waterford, CT, 2001). The soundtrack of the show was recorded for a CD, available through playwrightshorizons.org | |||||
Synopsis: | A country singer living out of his car in Montana has a chance encounter with an aspiring singer-songwriter who turns his life around. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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History of Kisses, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Studio Theatre, 1501 14th St NW, Washington, DC. | 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 | #129635 | |||
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Genre: | 90 min Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | A heady mix of spicy stories and passionate encounters blend with original sea shanties in The History of Kisses. A writer sequesters himself in a seaside motel to finish his collection of amorous stories, only to get drawn into the romantic and sexual goings-on in the motel. His distractions range from the Australian surfer who works the check-in desk to an English folk singer rehearsing a concert of sea shanties in the room next door in this lyrical meditation on the nature of fate and desire. | |||||
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Likely Story, A | ||
| 1st Produced: | Lion Theatre, Theatre Row, New York | 2004 | ||||
Company: | The New Group, New York | |||||
| 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 | #83339 | |||
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Genre: | Solo show | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | Five stories that were originally written and broadcast on the NPR show, 'The Next Big Thing'. Two straight actors who loathe each other are cast as gay lovers in a film, a woman in a Karaoke bar decides to get a divorce as her husband serenades her with 'Wind Beneath My Wings', an older man reflects on a night be spent on a beach with Judy Garland, a woman retreats from the realities of her life into an obsession with Poodles, and a woman makes plans to seduce her neighbor with the aid of Viagra laced Brownies. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Lillian | ||
| 1st Produced: | The Goodman Studio Theatre, Chicago | 1997 | ||||
Company: | The Goodman Theatre, Chicago | |||||
| 1st Published: | Included in the anthology 'Talk to Me' (Vintage Books) | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #66217 | |||
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Genre: | Solo show | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | A properly married, middle-aged English woman takes the chance of a lifetime when she abandons her perfectly commonplace life and falls in love with a wild and tempestuous much younger man. Without ever looking back Lillian begins a journey that runs from surrender to self-discovery | |||||
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Motherhood Out Loud | ||
| 1st Produced: | 59E59 Theaters | 04 Oct 2011 | ||||
Company: | Primary Stages | |||||
| 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 | #132415 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | Written by Leslie Ayvazian, David Cale, Jessica Goldberg, Beth Henley, Lameece Issaq, Claire LaZebnik,Lisa Loomer, Michele Lowe, Marco Pennette, Theresa Rebeck, Luanne Rice, Annie Weisman and Cheryl L. West. | |||||
Synopsis: | Utterly unpredictable, Motherhood Out Loud shatters traditional notions about parenthood, unveils its inherent comedy and celebrates the deeply personal truths that span and unite generations. Motherhood Out Loud reveals with illuminating insight the humor, raw emotions and rocky roads we experience in life. | |||||
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Palomino | ||
| 1st Produced: | Kansas City Repertory Theatre | 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 | #108039 | |||
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Genre: | n/a | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 4 | ||
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Synopsis: | PALOMINO is the story of Kieren McGrath, a beautiful, literate, and mysterious Irish Central Park carriage driver. Kieren dreams of writing a book, and when the opportunity to become an escort to rich, lonely women in NYC comes up, he thinks he's found his subject, or has he? PALOMINO is a story told from six people's perspectives - from that of the carriage driver, three of the women he has relationships with, the woman who sets up the 'dates', and the publisher he goes to when trying to secure a book deal for his story. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Redthroats, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Performance Space 122, New York, then re-opened Off-Broadway at Second Stage, New York | 1986 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Vintage Books | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #66218 | |||
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Genre: | Solo Show Monolgue play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | The Redthroats chronicles the life and times of a very alienated young Englishman, from his repressed childhood, through an adolescence of daydreaming and male prostitution, to his triumphant escape to America. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Smooch Music | ||
| 1st Produced: | The Kitchen, New York | 1987 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Vintage Books | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #108038 | |||
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Genre: | Solo Show | |||||
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Synopsis: | A collection of pop-song length vignettes and reveries of love and romance. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Somebody Else's House | ||
| 1st Produced: | The Goodman Studio Theatre, Chicago | 1994 | ||||
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 | #66219 | |||
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Genre: | Solo Show | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
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