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David Ian Lee

DAVID IAN LEE

  
Nationality:    USA
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David Ian Lee is a playwright whose works have been produced in New York, Los Angeles, and regional theatres in-between. His full length plays include The Curing Room (available from Indie Theater Now), The Latchkey Pool, A Preserving Suite, The Delaware Codicil, The Dog Show, Liberty & Joe DiMaggio (with L. Jay Meyer), and Sleeper (available from Indie Theater Now; also anthologized by New York Theatre Review, with a preface by Mac Rogers), as well as adaptations of William Shakespeare's Hamlet and Julius Caesar. Short plays produced and/or published include R25, Cupcake, Grace, Pinecone, And Now The Ruthless Truth, and Book of Memory. Screenplays include Doll's House: An Adaptation, Immoral Immortals, and Android Insurrection (with Nat Cassidy). As a New York-based actor, David has originated roles in plays written by some of his favorite playwrights, including fellow Indie Theater Now contributors Nat Cassidy, James Comtois, Daniel Kelly, Emily Plumb, and Mac Rogers. He has performed in London and Mexico, and with renowned regional theatres including The Actors Theatre of Louisville, The Utah Shakespeare Festival, and The Milwaukee Rep. Film and television credits include Crutch, Battle: New York, Save the Forest, Clone Hunters, and recurring roles on "As The World Turns" and "One Life to Live." David also stars as Greg on Up On The Roof's acclaimed web series "Scenes From The Movies." A proud graduate of the William Esper Studio, David received his BFA in Acting & Directing from the University of Arizona; he has also studied with the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre and the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. David lives in New York with his partner Karen and their beautiful son, Beckett Harrison Lee, who loves fire trucks, birds, and Cheerios

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         And Now the Ruthless Truth         Book Of Memory         Cupcake         Curing Room, The         Delaware Codicil, The         Dog Show, The         Grace         Latchkey Pool, The         Liberty & Joe DiMaggio         little bit of mass         Pinecone         Preserving Suite, A         R25         Sleeper

And Now the Ruthless Truth

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Book Of Memory

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Cupcake

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Curing Room, The

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Spring 1944 - seven Soviet soldiers have been captured by the Nazis, stripped naked and abandoned in the locked empty cellar of a monastery in southern Poland. Deprived of all ties to their world, the prisoners redefine their concepts of order and human nature. In order to survive the men resort to murder and cannibalism. How do they reconcile rank, faith and dignity? Powerful, thought-provoking and darkly funny, The Curing Room by David Ian Lee and directed by Joao de Sousa is a bold, shocking thriller based on true events.

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part of The Writers Forum Reading Series

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Drama 90 min

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Delaware Codicil, The

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Dog Show, The

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Gallery Players Theatre, New York    13 Jun 2009

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Grace

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Latchkey Pool, The

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This is a workshop presentation of a new play written and performed by David Ian Lee. This description is from the press release: ""a disgraced journalist has written an image boosting memoir on family and faith. However, the book's premier will launch a terrible journey; from the war in Iraq to the struggle over Gaza, from the modern media landscape to a marriage in crisis. Join us for a haunting confession somewhere between the Truth. . .and the Latchkey Pool."
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Liberty & Joe DiMaggio

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Alex and erik live in Battery Park, just minutes from the World Trade Center and the impact of history. they don't agree on anything. . .only to love each other. No matter what. What do you hold onto? What does it take to let go?
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written And performed by David Ian Lee And L. Jay Meyer

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little bit of mass

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ForePlay is Flux Theatre Ensemble's annual exploratory staged reading series where playwrights riff on the themes of Flux's main production. Human 2.0 riffed on August Schulenburg's play about the next step in human evolution, DEINDE. Over three nights, Flux presented short plays by 14 playwrights imagining what various human senses will look like in the future. What if we had the capacity to smell like a dog? Use radar like a bat? See all the colors of the electromagnetic spectrum? How will we upgrade our sense of beauty and justice? What will happen when we truly have unlimited memory? All of these short plays explore what it means to be human in an era of rapid technological change.

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a ForePlay staged reading series by Flux Theatre Ensemble, The Lounge in Dixon Place in New York City    02 Apr 2012

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a ForePlay staged reading series by Flux Theatre Ensemble

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Pinecone

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One man. One woman. and the one-night stand from Hell.

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part of Summer Shorties

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Turtle's Shell Theater, NY    2008

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Preserving Suite, A

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R25

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Sleeper

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Sleeper tells the story of an American doctor abducted from an NGO building project on the Pakistani border; a widow's journey from indifference to activism; the rising star of a vociferous right-wing pundit prior to the invasion of Iraq; and an afghani translator forced into an impossible situation. Sleeper explores the cultural divide separating 2003 and 2008, the virtual war that has exploded between dogma and reason, and the dangers of apathy and ignorance, be they found in our foreign policy or our most intimate relationships
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Play/Drama 150 min

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