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David Rambo

DAVID RAMBO

  (1955 - )
Nationality:    USA
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Literary Agent:    Harden-Curtis Associates  

David is the author of the plays The Lady With All The Answers (off-Broadway Cherry Lane Theatre starring Judith Ivey; Lortel nomination), God's Man In Texas, The Ice-Breaker, Babbitt, an all-new book for Lerner and Loewe's Paint Your Wagon, and The Lifeguard: Ronald Reagan And His Story. His plays have been widely produced at regional theatres throughout the country, including Actors Theatre of Louisville, Geffen Playhouse, Old Globe, Denver Center Theatre, Alliance Theatre and Pasadena Playhouse. He has adapted several classic screenplays for live performance, including All About Eve, Casablanca, Adam's Rib and Sunset Boulevard, produced at the Hollywood Bowl with John Mauceri conducting Franz Waxman's Oscar-winning score. David has written and produced hundred of hours of prime time television, including "Empire," "Revolution," "V," and seven seasons of "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation."

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

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

         Back Story         God's Man In Texas         Ice-Breaker         Lady with All the Answers, The         Spin Cycle
Back Story

Synopsis:
When Ethan is born in the worst blizzard of the century, two-year-old sister Ainsley nearly sacrifices a toe trying to clear a path for the baby's arrival. That initial gesture of devotion blossoms into a tale of sibling loyalty, rivalry and love that spans two decades. Inspired by Joan Ackermann's narrative "Back Story," each of the eighteen playwrights in this collective creation puts a distinctive spin on Ainsley's and Ethan?s amusing and poignant struggles with life, with each other, and with the phantom dad who abandoned them for the wilds of Alaska

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by Joan Ackermann Courtney Baron Neena Beber Constance Congdon Jon Klein Shirley Lauro Craig Lucas Eduardo Machado Donald Margulies Jane Martin Susan Miller John Olive Tanya Palmer David Rambo Edwin Sanchez Adele Edling Shank Mayo Simon Val Smith. Based

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Dramatic Anthology

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God's Man In Texas

Synopsis:
Wits, egos and ideologies are set on a collision course when renowned preacher Jerry Mears "auditions" for the top job in the Baptist universe. But the aging pastor of the biggest, best-known and most closely watched Baptist church ever won't easily give up his dynasty - or the televised 10 o'clock service - in this Drama about institutional power struggles, fathers and sons, and religion in the age of mass marketing.

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Humana Festival 1999: the Complete Plays, ed Michael Bigelow Dixon & Amy Wegener, Smith & Kraus, 1999   

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Play/Drama

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Ice-Breaker

Synopsis:
Both a science play and a love story, intellectual and romantic sparks fly when geologist Sonia Milan, a brilliant Ph.D. candidate, tracks down her mentor, Lawrence Blanchard, in seclusion in the desert Southwest. She's at a professional and personal crossroads, and wants to play a role in explaining a rapidly changing planet. He wants nothing more to do with climate science, but she persists. When the wine, firewood and night are all gone, Sonia has made unexpected discoveries, and Lawrence has confronted the past. their world has changed, and they have to decide what to do about it.

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Dramatists Play Service Inc, NY, 2008   

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Lady with All the Answers, The

Synopsis:
"Dear Ann Landers". . .For decades, renowned advice columnist Ann Landers answered countless letters from lovelorn teens, confused couples and a multitude of others in need of advice. No topic was off-limits, including nude housekeeping, sex in a motorcycle helmet, the proper way to hang toilet paper, sibling rivalries, addiction, religion and wandering spouses. Landers regaled her readers with direct, insightful and often humorously honest responses. Late on a 1975 night in Landers Chicago apartment, an ironic twist of events confronts her with a looming deadline for a column dealing with a new kind of heartbreak: her own. As she shares her struggles to complete the column with us, we learn as much about ourselves as we do about the wise, funny, no-nonsense woman whose daily dialogue with America helped shape the social and sexual landscapes of the last half-century.

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Dramatists Play Service, NY,    

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Genre:
comedy/Drama Comedy

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Spin Cycle

Synopsis:
A woman returns home to look after her mother who is in failing health. She finds that as before she left she is in conflict with her brother

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Rubican Theatre, San Buenaventura, California     2008

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