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DAVID WEST READ |
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Nationality: Canadian Email: n/a Website: n/a |
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David West Read is a Lila Acheson Wallace Playwriting Fellow at The Juilliard School, and a graduate of the MFA program in Dramatic Writing at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. His play THE DREAM OF THE BURNING BOY was recently produced Off-Broadway at the Roundabout Underground, after being developed at the O'Neill Playwrights Conference. The production was nominated for numerous awards, including the Drama League Award for Distinguished Production of a Play, and the Outer Critics' Circle John Gassner Award for an American Play. Other work has been seen at the Pacific Playwrights Festival, Cape Cod Theatre Project, Samuel French OOB Festival, Toronto Fringe and SummerWorks. Selected honors include the Lecomte du Nouy Prize, John Golden Prize, and the Robertson Davies Playwriting Award. Commissions include Roundabout Theatre and South Coast Repertory, and screenplays for Bunce Media and B-Spoke Entertainment. David is a native of Toronto, Canada.
Plays by David West Read
Dream of the Burning Boy, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Black Box Theatre | 21 Mar 2011 | ||||
Company: | Roundabout Theatre Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, Inc, 2012 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0-8222-2545-4 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #125321 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 3 | ||
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Synopsis: | Since the sudden death of his favorite student, high-school teacher Larry Morrow has been falling asleep at his desk and dreaming. The school's guidance counselor is hanging inspirational posters designed to help everyone "process their emotions." The student's sister and friends - more agitated and hormonal than usual - find little solace in Dante's Inferno. And as Larry's dreams intensify, a shocking secret is exposed. A secret that will change everything. Searing yet surprisingly funny, THE DREAM OF THE BURNING BOY is about finding the strength to move on. . .and the courage to live without regret. | |||||
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Happy Face | ||
| 1st Produced: | South Coast Repertory, Costa Messa, California | 23 Apr 2010 | ||||
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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 | #130817 | |||
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Genre: | Drama | |||||
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Synopsis: | When their parents die in a canoeing accident twenty year old Wendy is left to look after her seventeen year old brother Poots. She tries to raise money for plastic surgery for him - he was badly scarred in an accident and now wears a Phantom Of The Opera style mask. Poots abandons the house and starts living in a cardboard box in the garden | |||||
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