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David S Craig

DAVID S CRAIG

  
Nationality:    Canadian
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David S. Craig is one of Canada's most prolific and successful Dramatists. He has written more than twenty professionally produced plays including the hit comedy Having Hope at Home (15 professional productions in Canada and Germany), Fires in the Night for the Blyth Festival, Booster McCrane, P.M. for Toronto Free Theatre and Cue for Treason, for Young Peoples Theatre. His one-man show Napalm the Magnificent , seen at the John Housemean Center in Manhatten, won the Chalmers New Play award and his performance was nominated for a Dora Mavor Moore award. David has created the internationally acclaimed and award winning Danny, King of the Basement for Roseneath Theatre which has been seen extensively across Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany and austria, and Smokescreen, which examines adolescent marijuana use. David has extensive writing credits in radio Drama having created a fifty-one part series based on Booster Crane, P.M. for Morningside, a fifty-episode series called the Diamond Lane for Metro Morning, and the award-winning ninety-minute Christmas special, the First Christmas. NOW magazine named David S. Craig, "one of the top twenty playwrights in CanadA." Mr. Craig is currently the artistic Director of Roseneath Theatre.

Research:    Member of the Dramatists Guild of America (as at 2015)

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         All For Beaver Hats         Booster Mccrane Pm         Cue For Treason         Danny, King Of the Basement         Double Trouble         Fires In the Night         Having Hope At Home         Head A Tete         Health Class         Napalm the Magnificent         Neverending Story, The         Rocket And the Queen Of Dreams         Smokescreen

All For Beaver Hats

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Booster Mccrane Pm

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Comedy

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Male:  5            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Cue For Treason

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Danny, King Of the Basement

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In two years Danny and his mom have moved more often than kids lose teeth. When Danny moves into a new basement apartment, the kids he meets seem to have way more problems than just being hungry. But Danny's imaginative play creates a community that allows his friends to cope with their problems and ultimately to help Danny - because his crisis isn't losing a home. It's gaining one. . . Winner of the 2002 Dora Mavor Moore award for Outstanding production.

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Danny, King of the Basement is everything that you want A show for young Audiences to be. . . written with insight And compassion by David S. Craig Around A very important theme: the thin but seemingly uncrossable line that divides the haves from the have-nots in our society. -Richard Ouzounian, Toronto Star

1st Produced:
Roseneath Theatre, Toronto, Canada     04 Nov 2001

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Playwrights Canada Press - www.playwrightscanada.com/index.php   978-0887547393

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theatre for Young audiences

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Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Double Trouble

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Double Trouble is a play with music based on the same novel (Lottie and Lisa by Erich Kastner) as Walt Disney's The Parent Trap.

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Imagination Stage. Bethesda, MD 20814     27 Jun 2015

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Fires In the Night

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Having Hope At Home

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On a winter night in a drafty farmhouse a baby is about to arrive. Modern medecine meets midwifery head on in a torrent of family feuding. as tensions rise between three generations, so does the laughter. It takes a baby to to heal the rift in this funny and heartwarming story of foregiveness and hope. Playwright David S. Craig shows us how the human heart sometimes takes the longest way home.

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Witty And intelligent, (Having Hope At Home is) A play that is Always true to its more serious intentions. Never succumbing to A need to be comic At the expense of its characters, or its own beating heart, Hope Avoids television sitcom cliche. Craig insists instead that we feel, think And suffer, As well As gently laugh, At his observations of real life. Gary Smith - the Hamilton Spectator

1st Produced:
Blyth Memorial Community Hall, Blyth, Ontario     07 Aug 2003

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the Blyth Festival, Blyth, Ontario, Canada

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Playwrights Canada Press - www.playwrightscanada.com/index.php (May 2005)   887547583

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Comedy

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Head A Tete

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Two strangers - one english on French - take shelter from a storm under a magical tree. the tree bears wonderful fruit. the two strangers try to communicate

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written by Craig, David And Morgan, Robert

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Drama One act

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Health Class

Health Class
Two teachers prepare a sex ed presentation for male high school students. Through their discussions, their own experiences, fears and doubts about sexuality, masculinity and gender come to the fore, engaging the audience and asking us to look at our own opinions and beliefs when it comes to sex.

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written by David S. Craig And Robert Morgan

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Contained in: "Ontario Playwrights: eight Short Plays" published by Playwrights Canada Press, 2009   978-0887548215

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Comedy One act

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Napalm the Magnificent

Napalm the Magnificent
Three foot high racing tipster Napalm claims to be the older brother of Jesus Christ

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Contained in: "Rites Of Passage" published by Playwrights Canada Press   978-0887549236

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Monologue play

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Neverending Story, The

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the Neverending Story, based on the classic German novel and popularized by the iconic film, tells the story of a shy boy named Bastian who is tormented by school bullies and finds solace in a mysterious book. Filled with loveable characters, dark villains and unlikely heroes, this is a captivating tale of the fictional and far away land of Fantastica in an epic adventure where vivid reality and fantasy collide. Roseneath theatre of Toronto, Canada has been producing work of the highest quality for young audiences all over the world for over twenty years.
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Skirball Center, 566 Laguardia Place, New York     22 Mar 2012

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Roseneath Theatre

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Rocket And the Queen Of Dreams

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Rocket is scared of the monsters in his dreams. Neither his mother or Father can help. But the Queen of Dreams can

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Rosenheath Development Studio, Toronto     25 Apr 2010

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Smokescreen

Smokescreen
Smokescreen is an exploration of truth and denial between a Father and son with the adolescent drug culture as a backdrop. the story centres on a savvy, charismatic but troubled young man named Trent Dolin. Trent has been convicted of trafficking marijuana and as the play begins, he arrives for an appointment with Rayzee deGruiter, a newly minted youth care worker assigned to 'easy cases'. Trent is anything but. He views marijuana use as an innocuous, innocent, peace promoting pastime demonized by a corrupt world. He views his trafficking as more of a public service than a crime. Rayzee slowly strips away the layers of justification that support and mythologize adolescent marijuana use. For Trent, this means a roller coaster of denial, self-pity, rage and attempts to control. at the moment of breakthrough, their conversation is interrupted by the arrival of Trent's Father who ratchets the conflict up to a new level. Rayzee must broker a deal between these two warring factions that tests all her skill and patience so that Trent can envision a new paradigm for his drug behaviour.

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Raw, gritty And real, Smokescreen provides A thought provoking look inside one of today's hottest hot topics. Honest, funny And sometimes shockingly blunt, this show is A great show for Anyone who ever used, refused, thought About or been touched by marijuana. - Laura Ruddock, Winnipeg SUN

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Roseneath Theatre, Toronto, Canada     01 Feb 2005

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Contained in: "Rites Of Passage" published by Playwrights Canada Press   978-0887549236

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theatre for Teenagers and Parents

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Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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