DAVID RUSH
Writer
RESUME
DAVID RUSH
1622 Tina Drive
Murphysboro, IL 62966
618-319-2037 / david@davidrushwriter.com
PLAYS AND MUSICALS
Nureyev's Eyes (drama)
Production Scheduled:
Firehouse Theater (Richmond VA), May 2013
Winner: Holland New Voices Playwriting Award
Winner: Firehouse Theater (Richmond) New Play Award
Winner: Dayton Playhouse FutureFest
Winner: Vittum Playwriting Award, Full-length
Featured Play Reading: Great Plains Theater Conference
Featured Play Reading: Phoenix Theater New Play Festival
Featured Play Reading: Panndora's Box New Play Festival
Finalist: Abingdon Theater Contest
Finalist: TNT (Texas Nonprofit Theater) Project
Billy Budd (Adapted from Melville)
Antigone (Adapted from Sophocles)
Published: Playscripts
Women of Choice (Solo Version)
Produced: Nebraska Repertory Theater
Colorado Fringe Festival
Women of Choice (Ensemble Version)
Produced: Varsity Arts Center (Carbondale, IL)
Staged Reading: Chicago Dramatists
Miller and the Jabberwock (previously titled One Fine Day) (drama)
Produced: Stage Left Theater (Chicago, 2007)
Awards: WINNER: Best Play, Great Plains Theater Conference, 2008
WINNER: Fulton Opera House New Play Competition,
WINNER: Firehouse Theater New Play Contest
RUNNER-UP, Ojai Theater Conference;
ILLINOIS ARTS COUNCIL GRANT WINNER 2007.
JEFF AWARD NOMINEE: Best New Work 2007
Readings: Abingdon Theater, NYC 2008
Feathers in the Wind (Musical, book and lyrics)
Produced: Chicago Jewish Theater (Chicago, 2006. (JEFF RECOMMENDED)
Published: Havescripts.com
Germinous Seeds (drama)
Awards: WINNER: Fremont Theater New Play Contest, 2006;
FINALIST: Center Stage New Play Contest;
SEMI-FINALIST: Ashland New Plays Festival (2006)
SEMI-FINALIST: Firehouse Theater Contest (2010)
HONORABLE MENTION: OSU Newark New Play Contest (2012)
Readings and Workshops:
Great Plains Theater Conference (2010)
William Inge Workshop (2010)
Utah Contemporary Theater (2009)
Utah Shakespeare Festival (2009)
Odyssey Theater (LA) 2008
Orlando Shakespeare Festival (2008)
Chicago Dramatists (2007)
Tying the Knot (full length)
Readings at Celebration Theater, Orlando Shakespeare Festival, Stage Left, and others.
Cuttings
Produced: Stage Left Theater (Chicago) 2003
Prairie Lights (Musical: lyrics)
Produced: Stage Left Theatre, Chicago 2002, 2003.
Awards: NOMINEE: Jeff Award, Best New Work;
Published: Dramatic Publishing Company
The Prophet of Bishop Hill (Drama)
Produced: Chicago Dramatists
Awards: WINNER: After Dark Excellence in Writing (1999)
NOMINEE: Jeff Award for Best Play
Police Deaf Near Far (drama)
Produced: Stage Left Theatre, Chicago, 2000
SIUC Dept of Theater, 2001
Oakland Unversity (Rochester MI) 2012
Awards: WINNER: Jeff Citation, Best New Work;
WINNER; After Dark Award.
Estelle Singerman (Drama)
Awards: WINNER: Dayton Playhouse FutureFest Best Play
WINNER: Metro Midwest Jewish Play Project, NYC
Readings: Chicago Dramatists
Dayton Playhouse FutureFest
Across Generations New Play Festival (San Diego CA)
Leander Stillwell (Drama)
Produced: Stage Left Theatre (Chicago, 1995)
Lee Strassberg Theater (LA)
Mark Taper Forum (LA)
Playwrights Horizons (workshop)
SIUC Dept of Theater
Various other university productions
Labette County (Kansas) High School
Awards: WINNER: Jeff Award, Best Production
WINNER: L.A.. DramaLogue Award, Excellence in Writing
Dapples & Grays (Drama)
Produced: Stage Left Theatre (Chicago)
Greylight Theatre (Southern Illinois)
Awards: WINNER: After Dark AwardStaged
Betty Downstairs (Drama)
Staged Reading: PKE Theater (LA); directed by Pamela Reed, and featuring Doris Roberts, Chris Sarandon, Joanna Gleason. (1998)
Reading: Cleveland Women's Theatre Project (l999)
Ten Best-Loved Hymns (Drama)
Staged Reading: Great Plains Theater Conference, 2009
Reading: Stage Left Theater, 2009
In addition to these, I have had over two dozen productions of many other plays and musicals, in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago and elsewhere.
TELEVISION
Served as Story Editor/ Script Writer for “The Magic Door,” a half-hour drama anthology program produced in Chicago.
In that capacity, I wrote or revised/edited 8 scripts, three of which I wrote and won awards for, including two
Midwest EMMIES:
The Two-Hundred Dollar Willie Mays
Doña Gracia’s Candles
The Hanukkiah Soldier
FILM
Your Web-Footed Friends -- screenplay: Finalist, Chicago Screenwriters Contest, 1996. (?)
Miller and the Jabberwock – screenplay: Quarter Finalist in 2010 Big Break Contest
IN DEVELOPMENT
The Last Night on Earth of Joshus Harker
Dearest Scott/ Darling Zelda (Musical: book & lyrics)
Whirlybirds (musical, lyrics) (several staged readings in Chicago
Antigone (opera libretto, after Sophocles)
RESIDENCY:
Writer-in-Residence at William Inge Center, Independence, KS (March-April, 2010)
REPRESENTED BY: Selma Luttinger; Robert A. Freedman Dramatic Agency.
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