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David Stallings

DAVID STALLINGS

  
Nationality:    USA
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DAVID STALLINGS recently won Outstanding Playwriting of a One-Act for The Stranger to Kindness at the 2011 Planet Connections Theatre Festivity. He has worked with several theater companies including MTWorks, The Culture Project, Michael Howard Studios, Prospect Theater Company, Boo-Arts, Oberon Theatre Ensemble, Boston Theatre Works, as well as having had readings of his work across the country from Tulsa, Oklahoma to Boston, Massachusetts. David has written multiple full-length plays and numerous short pieces. NYC produced plays include: Folie a Deux: Insanity in Pairs (2006 at the Rock Theatre, NYC), Arpeggio (2007 at the 45th Street Theater, NYC), Ana?s Nin Goes to Hell (2008 at The Connelly Theater part of FringeNYC; 1st Prize Winner Boston Theatre Works Unbound Festival 2007, Winner of the Arthur W. Stone New Play Award Louisiana Tech University 2009, Semi Finalist for the Princess Grace Awards), Barrier Island (2010 at Center Stage, NYC; Daily News Editor's pick, Semi Finalist Princess Grace Award 2009), A Daughter of Israel (2010 at The Looking Glass Theatre, NYC), The Family Shakespeare (2011 at The June Havoc Theatre, NYC), and The Stranger to Kindness (2012 at The Kraine Theater part of FRIGID New York; 2011 at The Robert Moss Theatre part of The Planet Connections Theatre Festivity, NYC; Winner of Planet Connections Playwriting Award Short Form and Best Production of a One Act Play). David is also the Founding Artistic Director of Maieutic Theatre Works (MTWorks). David has a BFA in Theater from the College of Santa Fe, NM. He is a member of the Dramatists Guild of America.

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         Anais Nin Goes To Hell         Arpeggio         Barrier Island         Break In the Day         Dark Water         Daughter of Israel, A         Deceiving Chance         Family Shakespeare, The         Folie a Deux: Insanity in Pairs         Refracted Room, The         Song For St Michael's, A         State of the Art, The         Stranger to Kindness

Anais Nin Goes To Hell

Synopsis:
Imagine an island in hell with Cleopatra, Joan of Arc, and Queen Victoria. . .waiting for their men. What happens when women's lib icon Anais Nin arrives to turn their afterlife upside down? 2007 First Prize Winner Boston theatre Works Unbound Festival. www.mtworks.org/anais 2h 20m, Manhattan, NYC Comedy, Drama
- http://www.fringenyc.org/

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Organisations:
Maieutic Theatre Works

1st Published:
http://www.indietheaternow.com/Play/anais-nin-goes-to-hell   -

Music:
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Genre:
2h 20m, Comedy, Drama

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Male:  2            Female:  6            Other:  -

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Arpeggio

Synopsis:
Zeb, the personal assistant and best friend to fading pop superstar, Cindy Hall, is consumed by loneliness so he decides to take on a new roommate, Gerry. Zeb and Gerry become fast friends. He confides in her about the uncertainty of his relationship with his new illegal immigrant boyfriend, Ricardo, although they feel greatly for each other, they are wary of a future together. Gerry confides in Zeb that she has a secret-a passionate affair with rock sensation Tobin Grey. the story reveals more secrets, which devastate their illusions and lives, spotlighting America's obsession with celebrity, and its tragic effects
- press release

Notes:
music by Alec Bridges

1st Produced:
45th Street Theatre, NY    2007

Organisations:
Maiuetic Theatre Works

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  an onstage rock band

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Barrier Island

Synopsis:
Barrier Island tackles the nature of a fearless community that chooses to stake their lives on the strength of the historic Galveston seawall-built to protect the island from natural disasters-as they await the arrival of one of the most devastating hurricanes to hit the United States since Katrina, Hurricane Ike.
- nytheatre.com

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Organisations:
Maieutic Theatre Works

1st Published:
http://www.indietheaternow.com/Play/barrier-island   -

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Break In the Day

Synopsis:
An elederly woman looks after a troubled teenage boy

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Genre:
Short play

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Dark Water

Synopsis:
When the swampland of Louisiana is hit with the most massive oil spill known to history, Barnacle, an old sea turtle, fights against mans destruction, natures wrath, and her enemies of the wild to save her children trapped in the spill.

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1st Produced:
-    2014

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1st Published:
http://www.indietheaternow.com/Play/dark-water   -

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Genre:
120 min drama

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  6            Other:  -

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Daughter of Israel, A

Synopsis:
Four Israeli women are drafted into an elite section of the military

Notes:
Written by David Stalling; co-creator Adi Kurtchik

1st Produced:
workshop production Looking Glass theatre
422 West 57th Street, New York, NY 10019    11 Nov 2010

Organisations:
BOO-Arts

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  5            Other:  -

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Deceiving Chance

Synopsis:
Elliot has decided to give up the high life and settle down with Chance. then he discovers that Chance is engaged to a woman

Notes:
Based on "the Importance Of Being Earnest" by Oscar Wilde

1st Produced:
Rehearsed reading at Interborough Theater, New York    Sep 2009

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Genre:
Comedy. - - Gay, full length

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  5            Other:  -

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Family Shakespeare, The

Synopsis:
Henrietta has always been enraptured by the works of William Shakespeare. When she dangerously invites an innocent boy into her magical world, she discovers her family has not only censored the Bard, but also kept her from one of his most scandalous tales. Will their actions crush her imagination, make it spin out of control, or will they join her in a land of Ophelias, Calibans, and Kings? Welcome to the Imaginarium of Henrietta Bowdler in 18th Century Bath. Inspired by the complete censored works of William Shakespeare by Thomas, Jane, and Harriet (Henrietta) Bowdler.
- nytheatre.com

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1st Produced:
June Havoc Theatre, 312 West 36th Street, 1st floor, New York, NY 10018    13 Apr 2011

Organisations:
Maiuetic Theater Works

1st Published:
http://www.indietheaternow.com/Play/the-family-shakespeare   -

Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama 120 min

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  5            Other:  -

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Folie a Deux: Insanity in Pairs

Synopsis:
In 1933, two sisters, Lea and Christine Papin, are found naked in bed after brutally slaying their employer. the remarkable case-in which the defense claims that the women suffer from folie a deux', insanity in pairs-prompts noted attorney Clarence Darrow to recall the case of Leopold and Loeb from a decade earlier, two young men in Chicago who were found guilty of murdering a teenage boy as a bizarre social 'experiment'. Are the worst crimes representative of the worst elements of society-and how does a society's reaction to a horrible crime define who they are? David Stallings' new play Folie a Deux follows Darrow as he intertwines the story of these bizarre and brutal cases, revealing troubling assumptions that might be made about violence, madness and forbidden love. Can two people really share a madness that turns deadly-or is society itself partially to blame for its failure to understand those who are different?
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1st Produced:
the Rock Theater, Times Square Arts Center, NY    2006

Organisations:
Maieutic Theater Works

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Refracted Room, The

Synopsis:
ForePlay is Flux Theatre Ensemble's annual exploratory staged reading series where playwrights riff on the themes of Flux's main production. Human 2.0 riffed on August Schulenburg's play about the next step in human evolution, DEINDE. Over three nights, Flux presented short plays by 14 playwrights imagining what various human senses will look like in the future. What if we had the capacity to smell like a dog? Use radar like a bat? See all the colors of the electromagnetic spectrum? How will we upgrade our sense of beauty and justice? What will happen when we truly have unlimited memory? All of these short plays explore what it means to be human in an era of rapid technological change.

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1st Produced:
The Lounge in Dixon Place in New York City    02 Apr 2012

Organisations:
a ForePlay staged reading series by Flux Theatre Ensemble

1st Published:
in "Human 2.0 Part 2", http://www.indietheaternow.com/Plays   -

Music:
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Genre:
short play

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Song For St Michael's, A

Synopsis:
the death of a schoolboy uncovers secrets at a boys Catholic School

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1st Produced:
theatreWorks New Born Festival, New York    2010

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Male:  3            Female:  6            Other:  -

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State of the Art, The

Synopsis:
An artist is re-animated many years after his death into a future world that has no art. He is genetically altered so that he fits in with everyone else

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1st Produced:
Puffin Room, New York    -

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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Fifteen minute play

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Stranger to Kindness

Synopsis:
dealing with non-communication, tragedy and loss
- nytheatre.com

Notes:
part of the Planet Connections theatre Festivity

1st Produced:
Robert Moss theatre
440 Lafayette Street (3rd floor), New York, NY 10003    03 Jun 2011

Organisations:
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1st Published:
http://www.indietheaternow.com/Play/the-stranger-to-kindness   -

Music:
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Genre:
one act 50 min

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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