about David Caudle

David is a member of the Dorothy Strelsin New American Writers Group at Primary Stages, where he taught playwriting last year. In the writers' group, he is currently working on a new musical tentatively entitled HARD HATS, and has developed several other plays there over the last two years, including In Development, The Second House, Damsel and The Common Swallow. Likeness premiered at the New Theatre in Miami in September of '07. The play received full development at the New Harmony Project '06, and was an O'Neill Playwrights Conference Semi-Finalist. The Sunken Living Room, now published by Samuel French, premiered at New Theatre as a co-production with Southern Rep in April '06, followed by a critically-acclaimed New Orleans production at Southern Rep in Jan. '07. The Sunken Living Room was a Carbonell Award Nominee for Best New Work, Gold Medal Finalist for the Pinter Review Prize for Drama and Finalist at the Lark Theatre's Playwrights Week. He has been both a Walter E. Dakin Fellow and a Tennessee Williams Scholar at the Sewanee Writers' Conference. Earlier productions include Hell's Cuisinart, at the Samuel Beckett Theatre in New York, the Tamarind Theatre in Los Angeles, and at Miami-Dade College, and Swing Low, at Florida State University. Visiting Ours was recently nominated for the Weissberger Award at Williamstown and was a finalist for the Christopher Wolk Award at the Abingdon Theatre Company. The Short Fall was a Finalist at the Lark in 2002. His one-act, Feet of Clay, previously a finalist for the Heidemann Award at the Actors' Theatre of Louisville, won the Samuel French One-Act Competition, 2004 and is published by Samuel French in its 29th Edition of Festival Plays. The short film, Feet of Clay, directed by Carrie Preston, has begun making the rounds of film festivals.

David also wrote the screenplay for the short film, Landfill, directed by Anezka Sebek. This short was based on his one-act of the same title, which premiered at the Miranda Theatre in 1997.

Productions, One-Acts

Bev's Bad Day, A Part, Jolly Roger and Belgian Waffling at the Manhattan Theatre Source.
Feet of Clay: Samuel French Festival, '04 (Winner); Yellow Taxi Productions, Nashua, NH, '03.
Helena Handbasket: Apt. 929 Theatre Company, '04. Directed by Valentina Fratti.
The One Thing: Edge Theatre in Miami, '02.
Once in a Lifetime: Public Theatre of Fort Lauderdale, '02.
Cold Comfort: Judith Anderson Theatre, '97.
A Part: Turnip Theatre Festival, '98 (award-winner)

Screenplays
Feet of Clay, short film currently in Post-Production. Directed by Carrie Preston
Landfill, 16 mm Short Film Hudson Valley and Cleveland Int'l Film Festivals, '98 '99

Publications
Feet of Clay Samuel French's 29th Edition of Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays.