| David Myers, playwright, & actor. | ||
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David Myers has performed with the Alley Theatre (Houston), Clubbed Thumb (New York), The Looking Glass Theater (New York), Gorilla Rep. (New York) and others. Recently, he performed in Charles Mee’s Orestes 2.0 at HERE Arts Center and in The Wikipedia Plays at Ars Nova. He has performed in numerous independent short films, including the upcoming Bad Luck City. His one-man show, No Man’s Land Greenland, played to sold out houses in Rhode Island and in Houston at Infernal Bridegroom’s Axiom Theatre. He has also traveled to Rwanda, where he performed in Kinyarwanda (the Rwandan language) as well as worked to develop plays by Rwandan Artists. Previous to that, he performed in Italian, with the Teatro ITC di San Lazaro in the Bologna Urban Area. He is a graduate of Brown University, Houston’s High School for the Performing and Visual Arts and training programs at Circle in the Square Theatre School and Carnegie Mellon’s Drama Program. His favorite roles include: Woyzeck in Georg Buchner’s Woyzeck, Silvius in As You Like It and The Baron Docteur in Suzan-Lori Parks’ Venus. |
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David Myers had one of his plays
produced in Houston in February 2005!
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David was recently featured in a play in New York about Jack and the Beanstalk. A children's play, adapted by Hannah Roth-Seavy, from the well known story, it ran from the end of February 2004 to April 10 at The Looking Glass Theater. Photographs of the production were made by Neil Bar-or and can be seen at his site featuring his professional photography.
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| Citation from the Denver Bizjournals site. |
David Myers (Development Associate) is a playwright, actor and freelance project-doer based in New York. This Fall, his play 1800 Acres will be produced at Riverside Studios in London, where the play also recently received development from The Old Vic through their New Voices program. Myers' work has also been read or produced in Houston, New York, London, and rural Rwanda. He has studied with Edward Albee, Nilo Cruz, and Ntozake Shange and completed the Young Writers' Programme at The Royal Court Theatre. As an actor, David has performed in New York with Clubbed Thumb (at The Public Theater), The Looking Glass Theater, Gorilla Rep and Immediate Theatre Co. (at HERE Arts Center). Myers is the former Literary Associate at The Public Theater where he worked under producers George C. Wolfe and Oskar Eustis. After leaving the Public, David worked for actor Jeffrey Wright and as The National Coordinator for Suzan-Lori Parks' 365 Days / 365 Plays Festival, coordinating a year of daily productions involving over 700 theaters, universities and international performance groups. He is a graduate of Brown University. More info available at his website www.swimdavid.com. |
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