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David Emerson Toney

DAVID EMERSON TONEY

  
Nationality:    African American
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Literary Agent:    Davis/Spylios Management  

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.

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

         Coming Home         Elysian Fields         Kingdom         Last of Midnight, The         Snowy Day, The         Soul Collector, The

Coming Home

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Elysian Fields

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Kingdom

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Kingdom is a gritty, funny, inner city meditation on Shakespeare's Richard III. Set above a barbeque joint in Cleveland, three African-American brothers maneuver to control their family legacy. Kingdom was also a finalist for the theodore Ward Prize for Best African-American Play for 2004.

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dark comedy Comedy

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Last of Midnight, The

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Snowy Day, The

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Celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the first American picture book that featured an African-American child as the main character. the simple tale of a boy waking up to discover that snow has fallen during the night is brought to life in the magical world premiere. Peter celebrates the snow-draped inner city with a day of adventures-experimenting with footprints, knocking snow from a tree, creating snow angels, and trying to save a snowball for the next day

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Based on the book by Ezra Jack Keats; Book by David Emerson Toney; Music And Lyrics by Darius Smith

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Adventure Theatre, 7300 Macarthur Blvd Glen Echo, Md    

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Soul Collector, The

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Two African-American garbage men collect objects on heavy collection day in a rich white suburb of Cleveland, Ohio. their hope is to sell them off and achieve their respective dreams. One day they bring home a trunk that contains a young and quite alive African-American woman, whose body is possessed by two spirits. they discover they must free the two spirits from their earthly bonds and help the spirits achieve their final dream or suffer bad luck of biblical proportions. the two spirits living inside the woman are a seventy-year-old Jewish agent from New York that died in Vegas in 1954 and a young Japanese girl that died in the atom bomb attack on Nagasaki during WW II.

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aka Nagasaki 6 -7852; Aka the heart Goes Into Hiding

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Slated for production in 2007-2008 season

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Male:  4            Female:  2            Other:  One of the female actors must portray the characters of the two spirits.

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