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Derek Davidson

DEREK DAVIDSON

  
Nationality:    USA
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Although I have spent most of my life in the south (I was born in Georgia, lived in Maryland, Virginia, Florida, New Mexico, and now North Carolina), I have lived all over: Seattle, NYC, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Education: BFA in acting from Florida State University ('85); MA in Playwriting from Miami University of Ohio ('96); PhD in Theatre History and Criticism from the University of Washington ('08). My play The Road Where It Curves Away, about a snake-handling preacher and his family in Southwest Virginia, has been performed in Ohio and Virginia, winning the Appalachian Festival of Plays and Playwrights ('04), Barter Theatre, Abingdon, VA. My plays for young people-Holmes: The Art of Deduction, and Beans Talk, an eco-friendly revision of the tale of Jack and the Beanstalk-have been performed in Ohio, Virginia and North Carolina. My one-act, Jack of Dover (KC/ACTF award, best play) was performed at the Kennedy Center and at the Filling Station in Albuquerque, NM. My most recent play, Bumbershoot, had its premiere at the New York International Fringe Festival this summer. Jule, Romie (songs of innocence) is due to have its first Staged Reading in Boone, NC this fall. I wrote and directed my screenplay, This Is Not the South, which has won numerous awards including First Place Tennessee Film (Secret City Film Festival), and been presented at regional conferences. I am currently at work on another screenplay, Strayaway Child, based on the old "Twa Sisters" folk ballad. I teach playwriting and theatre history at Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina. My wife, Karen Sabo, and I are in the midst of founding In/Visible Theatre, a professional theatre company based here in Boone.

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

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

         Adventure Story         Beans Talk: A Cow, Some Beans, And A Boy Named Jack         Bumbershoot         Certain Things         Christmas Wassail, A         Groundwork         Holmes: The Art of Deduction         Jack Of Dover         Jule, Romie (Songs Of Innocence)         Pines, The Pines, The         Road Where It Curves Away, The

Adventure Story

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Beans Talk: A Cow, Some Beans, And A Boy Named Jack

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an eco-friendly revision of the tale of Jack and the Beanstalk

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Bumbershoot

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God Bless America. Land of Asian-Irish musicians, weary drag queens, corporate irresponsibility, tea-party paranoia. This Noir MeloTrauma examines how fear transforms us into what we're afraid of, and causes us to do bad things. Very, very bad things.

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Venue #18: Here Mainstage Theater, Fringe NYC, Ny    10 Aug 2012

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In/Visible Theatre

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2h 5m Drama Comedy

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Certain Things

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Christmas Wassail, A

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Groundwork

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Grow a garden. The idea hits Paul like a meteor and hes off to save the planet one seedling at a time. Saving himself, however, will prove the harder battle.

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I.G. Greer Theatre in Boone, North Carolina    Aug 2013

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In/Visible Theatre

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one act 65 min

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Holmes: The Art of Deduction

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Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson become embrangled in international affairs when a mysterious masked stranger arrives at 221 Baker Street requiring the services of the world's greatest detective. What ensues is an exciting, hilarious adventure in deduction, with street fights, disguises, and the introduction of perhaps the most important woman in Holmes' life, the actress Irene adler. While Holmes pieces together clues for his Bohemian stranger, he vividly recalls another of his most intriguing cases, this one involving a bizarre little man with an affinity for encyclopedias, and lots and lots of red hair. This adaptation of two of Conan Doyle's best Holmes mysteries-"Scandal in Bohemia" and "the Red-Headed League"-has been given a contemporary makeover, with numerous roles for both males and females.

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Weathervane Playhouse, Akron, Ohio    03 Mar 2011

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Jack Of Dover

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Jule, Romie (Songs Of Innocence)

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Pines, The Pines, The

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Road Where It Curves Away, The

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