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David Finley

DAVID FINLEY

  (1954 - )
Nationality:    Canadian
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David Finley won the 2005 Dora Mavor Moore award for Outstanding New Musical for "aladdin", staged at the elgin Theatre in Toronto. He was nominated for the 2006 Dora Mavor Moore award for Outstanding New Musical for "Snow White and the Group of Seven". a remount of "aladdin" was taken on a two-month seven-city Canadian tour in 2006. In 2009 David wrote and directed the comedy "Donny's Day" which enjoyed a very successful run at the Toronto Fringe Theatre Festival. His full-length dark comedy, "Digging", was named First Runner-up in the 2010 Hamilton Fringe Festival New Play Contest. His film "My Last Confession" screened at 41 International Film Festivals in 13 countries.

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

         Aladdin - the Magical Family Musical         Digging         Donny's Day         Snow White And the Group Of Seven

Aladdin - the Magical Family Musical

Synopsis:
a jukebox-style musical spin on the old english Christmas panto tradition. aladdin is a skateboard loving slacker.

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1st Produced:
Elgin Theatre, Toronto    Dec 2004

Organisations:
Ross Petty Productions

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Music:
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Genre:
Musical Comedy

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Digging

Synopsis:
Digging is about men and how they react to the loss of mothers, wives and teeth. Jack is a successful businessman whose wife of sixteen years has left him for their dentist. Jack has anger, abandonment and alcohol issues. and dentist issues. He's in the midst of a florid nervous breakdown. and he just might have murdered his wife. Chuck is a schizophrenic who lives in a dog house in his elderly father's back yard. at night he digs holes in back yards all over town. He's looking for his mother whom he buried sixteen years earlier. He just can't remember where. Jack and Chuck meet and spend the day drinking and telling each other their stories. they physically travel into each other's flashbacks and as night falls their tales darken too. It all leads to a pair of explosive, violent and very funny confrontations. and a resolution of sorts sealed with, of all things, a kiss.

Notes:
Digging was named First Runner-up in the 2010 Hamilton Fringe Festival New Play Contest. It will receive A public reading At theatre Aquarius in Hamilton this Autumn. It was written to be performed by three Actors - the two male leads And A female who will play All the other roles.

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FinWorks

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Genre:
Full-length Dark Comedy

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Donny's Day

Synopsis:
Donny's Day is a broad comedy about one difficult day in the life of Eddie Kowalski, an alcoholic, commitment-phobic, chronically procrastinating, wannabe writer wiseass. Eddie is summarily dumped by his lisping girlfriend, his violent aa sponsor, his insane name-dropping psychiatrist and his smitten erstwhile bartender, all on the one-year anniversary of the death of his best friend.

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1st Produced:
Robert Gill Theatre, Toronto Fringe Festival    02 Jul 2009

Organisations:
FinWorks

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Music:
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Genre:
comedy One act

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Snow White And the Group Of Seven

Synopsis:
a jukebox-style musical spin on the old english Christmas panto tradition. Snow White is taken in by a friendly boy band - comprised of six brothers and their father.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Elgin Theatre, Toronto    Dec 2005

Organisations:
Ross Petty Productions

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Musical Comedy

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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