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David West Read

DAVID WEST READ

  
Nationality:    Canadian
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Literary Agent:    The Gersh Agency  

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.

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

         Dream of the Burning Boy, The         Great Pretender, The         Happy Face         Performers, The

Dream of the Burning Boy, The

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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1st Produced:
Black Box Theatre, 111 West 46th Street, New York, NY 10036    21 Mar 2011

Organisations:
Roundabout Theatre Company

1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, Inc, 2012   978-0-8222-2545-4

Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Great Pretender, The

Synopsis:
Children's television of yesteryear. The death of a beloved puppeteer consumes the host of the programme

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1st Produced:
Lucie Stern Theater, Palo Alto    09 Jul 2014

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Genre:
Black comedy

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Happy Face

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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1st Produced:
South Coast Repertory, Costa Messa, California    23 Apr 2010

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Genre:
Drama

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Performers, The

Synopsis:
the Performers is a romantic comedy about two high school friends (Cheyenne Jackson and Daniel Breaker) -- and the women in their lives (Ari Graynor and an actress to be announced) -- who reconnect at the Adult Film Awards in Las Vegas. When the night takes an unexpected turn and relationships are threatened, Chuck Wood (Henry Winkler), the hardest-working man in the business, steps in to lend a hand. Sex, love and Barry Manilow intersect in this comedy about the ups and downs and ins and outs of love.

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1st Produced:
Longacre theatre
220 West 48th Street, New York, NY 10036    24 Oct 2012

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service Inc   978-0-8222-2865-3

Music:
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Genre:
romantic comedy

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

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