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. A reading of his new screenplay, THE ICE FISHER featured Catherine Curtin, Kally Duling, Michael Emerson, John Magaro, Kelly McAndrew and Jeremy Sisto. 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. An earlier reading was held at the Paramount Theater in Peekskill, presented by the Dramatists Guild; directed by Dominic D’Andrea with Stephen Paul Johnson, Nance Willamson, Jack Utrata, Nathaniel Claridad, Neimah Djourabchi, Estelle Bajou, Sol Miranda Bernadette Humphrey-Nocol and Gary Sunshine. CRANES’ first reading was held at Primary Stages, and featured Reed Birney, Laila Robins, Erin Wilhelmi, Nick Lehane, Sanjit De Silva, Frankie J. Alvarez, Annie Henk and Denise Burse Fernandez. The play is dramaturged by renowned theater mind, Morgan Jenness. AMAS Musical Theater company recently worksopped David’s new play-with-music, DUET FOR THREE, featuring Emily Bergl, Annie Golden, Jonas Cohen, Allen Read, Samantha Bruce, Korinne Tetlow and Doug Rees. It was directed by Gabriel Barre and music-directed by Aaron Gandy at the ART/NY Theater. Subsequently, a sold-out showcase at Art/NY Theater featured Pearl Rhein, Klea Blackhurst, Taylor Quick and David Edwards. DUET FOR THREE includes original music from the very first hit Broadway musical composed by a woman. In 1930, Earlier workshops featured Jessica Grové as Kay. FINE AND DANDY was composed by Kay Swift, with lyrics by her banker/poet husband, Paul James. David’s play explores the creation of the Broadway 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 music, 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. Also receiving widespread praise, 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 review 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 prestigious Dorothy Strelsin New American Writers Group at Primary Stages, where he also taught playwriting classes 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:
David has written two screenplays for indie producer Rose Ganguzza, both currently in pre-production. His original screenplay Dodo is in preproduction with director Michelle Bossy. 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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