DAVID CAUDLE

Playwright & Screenwriter

“Caudle creates painfully real circumstances, as well as characters toward whom the audience feels genuine empathy. “ Theodore P. Mahne, Times-Picayune

DAVID CAUDLE is a playwright and screenwriter living in New York. His plays have been published by Samuel French, Broadway Licensing, Smith & Kraus and Blackbird. His newest play, A THOUSAND CRANES, had a reading at the HOWL! Arts/HOWL! Archives gallery to benefit the reproduction rights advocacy non-profit A is For, starring Robert Cuccioli, Isabel Keating, Will Brill, Erin Wilhelmi, Sanjit Da Silva, Florencia Lozano, Marchelle Thurman, Evan Ohbayashi and Kaileela Hobby, directed by Michole Biancosino. The play is dramaturged by Morgan Jenness. AMAS Musical Theater company workshopped and showcased David’s new play-with-music, DUET FOR THREE, directed by Gabriel Barre and music-directed by Aaron Gandy at the ART/NY Theater. DUET FOR THREE includes original music from the first full-length hit Broadway musical composed by a woman, in 1930. FINE AND DANDY, composed by Kay Swift with lyrics by her banker/poet husband, Paul James, ran for over a hundred performances on Broadway, and toured for a year. DUET FOR THREE explores the creation of the musical, while the couple navigate Kay’s long-term, open affair with George Gershwin. DUET was commissioned by the Kay Swift Trust, which holds all rights to the featured music from the original show, including the enduring standards “Fine and Dandy” and “Can’t We Be Friends?”

Published and earlier work: THE SUNKEN LIVING ROOM (Samuel French) won the Southern New Plays Festival, the Ambie Award for Best Play, Gold Medal Finalist for the Pinter Review Prize, and was honored by the Drama Book Shop as Play of the Week. Monologues from the play are reprinted by Smith & Kraus. SUNKEN’s world premiere starred John Magaro (Carol, The Big Short.) Subsequent productions in New Orleans and New York garnered critical acclaim. VISITING HOURS was named Best New Play of the year by the Times-Picayune for its New Orleans premiere, and was a Finalist in Premier Stages’ New Play Festival. LIKENESS was an O’Neill Semi-Finalist and received full development at the New Harmony Project before a production at Manhattan Theater Source starring Erin Wilhelmi (HBO’s The Gilded Age). DOWNWARD FACING DEBBIE premiered in the Planet Connections Theater Festivity at the Iati Theater, garnering an unqualified rave from Martin Denton of Indie Theater Now! IN DEVELOPMENT, a wild riff on the culture of artistic development conferences, premiered at Miami’s New Theater, directed by Ricky J Martinez, followed by a sold-out reading in New York directed by Pedro Pascal.

David is an alumnus of the Dorothy Strelsin New American Writers Group at Primary Stages, where he also taught Playwriting in the Primary Stages ESPA school of theater. David was both a Williams Scholar and a Dakin Fellow at the Sewanee Writers Conference, before serving on the Conference staff. In addition to Primary Stages, the New Harmony Project and Sewanee, David has developed work at the Barrow Group, Apartment 929 Theater company, the Torn Page salon, the 42nd Street Collective and the Blank Theater in L.A. David has been a guest speaker / held workshops at Clemson, Point Park University, Montclair State, Miami Dade College and others.

FILM:
The Atlantic Theater Company recently hosted a reading of David’s new original screenplay, The Ice Fisher featuring Reeve Carney, Kally Duling, Michael Emerson, Marissa Ghavami, Mary McCann, Taylor AnthonyKeira Naughton, Lena Pepe and Jeremy Sisto. David has written two screenplays for indie producer Rose Ganguzza, both currently in pre-production. His short film, Silk, co-written with Marissa Ghavami, was directed by John Magaro and screened at the 2022 Soho International film festival, Big Apple Film festival and others. David is currently writing an original horror feature and developing a limited series based on Retired Army Major Jeffrey McGowan’s memoir MAJOR CONFLICT, about a gay soldier’s experience stateside during Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell following heroic actions in the Gulf.

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