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David Todd

DAVID TODD

  
Nationality:    USA
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David Todd's plays have been developed or presented in NYC at theaters including 59E59, Dixon Place, the Little Theater, HERE, and NY Theatre Workshop, regionally in DC, Portland, and Chicago, and internationally at the LaMaMa Spoleto Open in Italy. His playwriting residencies include Hangar Theater (Ithaca, NY), Classic Studio (NYC), and Chicago Dramatists. He earned his MFA in Dramatic Writing at NYU (Goldberg Award; Harry Kondoleon Award) and his PhD at the University of Illinois at Chicago. As a faculty member, he has taught writing and literature at NYU, SUNY Stony Brook, and Otterbein University. He is a Usual Suspect at NY Theater Workshop and a Collaborator with the NYC-based Monk Parrots. His nonfiction book Feeding Back: Conversations with Alternative Guitarists from Proto-Punk to Post-Rock was published in 2012 by Chicago Review Press, and his play Joy in Repetition: A Hauntological Romeo & Juliet was published in January 2014 by Connotation Press.

Research:    Member of the Dramatists Guild of America (as at 2016)

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

         After an Earlier Incident         Here I Go         Joy In Repetition: A Hauntological Romeo & Juliet         Killsville         Red Yello Mix         Sister Carrie

After an Earlier Incident

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1st Produced:
La MaMa the Club
74A East 4th Street, New York, NY 10003     08 Mar 2013

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Monk Parrots

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theatrical meditation

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Here I Go

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59E59 theaters
59 East 59th Street, New York, NY 10022     22 May 2012

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Monk Parrots

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Play/Drama

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Joy In Repetition: A Hauntological Romeo & Juliet

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Joy in Repetition is a 'hauntological' version of the classic Romeo and Juliet myth. Incorporating samples from Shakespeare's canonical tragedy and Ovid's Metamorphoses, JiR refracts this ancient story through a 21st century filter. In this telling, Romeo and Juliet are not blazing their way to romantic glory, but dealing with the protracted denouement that follows it. Likewise, the audience is not watching the same old poetic leaves fall, but confronting their own role in a recurring disaster.

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Dark Comedy / Tragicomedy

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Killsville

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Duane returns to cash a ten-year threat against a house taken over by strangers. He finds a surrogate janitor named Killer and with Molly falls in love at first glare. Plans are hatched. Warm summer drives are taken with tops down, but still. . .

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Red Yello Mix

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A mash-up play mixing tracks by Samuel Beckett, Ice Cube, Tim Burton, Quentin Tarantino, Todd Haynes, Joseph Conrad, Andy Warhol, the Coen Brothers, Bernardo Bertolucci, Sam Shepard, Wim Wenders, Alfred Hitchcock, and Vladimir Nabokov.

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Genre:
Black Comedy

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Sister Carrie

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An adaptation of the 1900 novel by Theodore Dreiser.

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Genre:
adaptation

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Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

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