Biography of David Emerson Toney

Mr. Toney's playwriting credits include Kingdom, Elysian Fields, Coming Home and The Last of Midnight. The Last of Midnight has had staged readings at The New York Theatre Workshop and at the Soho Rep in NY as part of their Camp 7 series. His play Kingdom was a finalist for the 2004 Theodore Ward Prize. Kingdom was also a part of the 2005-2006 season at the ETA Creative Foundation theatre in Chicago and was nominated for the Helen Hayes/Charles MacArthur Award for Outstanding New Play or Musical for 2005, stemming from its production at the African Continuum Theatre Company of Washington, DC. He is presently in development under the auspices of the African Continuum Theatre Company and the Ford Foundation for his play The Heart Goes Into Hiding. His film and television writing credits include staff writer for Fox's In Living Color, screenwriter for New Line Cinema's House Party III, head writer and story editor for ESPN, Sony Wonder and Jumbo Pictures. His animation development and writing credits include head writer and story editor for Hoyt and Andy's Sportsbender, Dragon Flyz, VanPires and The Resonator for the company Abrams Gentile Entertainment and the French company Gaumount Entertainment. In 1995 Mr. Toney was the co-winner of the "Script to Screen" screenplay competition, sponsored by the Independent Feature Project and Writers Guild of America for his screenplay Sticks and Stones.