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DAVID CALE

  
Nationality:    English
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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.

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below is a list of David Cale's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

        Betwixt         Deep In A Dream Of You         English Rose Of Indiana, The         Floyd And Clea Under the Western Sky         History Of Kisses, The         Likely Story, A         Lillian         Motherhood Out Loud         Nature of Things, The         Nightwear         Palomino         Redthroats, The         Smooch Music         Somebody Else's House