Biography of David White

David White has a B.A. from New College, Sarasota, Florida; an M.A. from the University of Missouri-Kansas City; and a Ph.D. from the University of Missouri-Columbia.

He is Artistic Director of WordBRIDGE Playwright's Laboratory, a collaboration between Clemson University and Generous Company that results in a two week long play development workshop (June 9 - 25, 2007) dedicated to developing plays by collegiate playwrights with teams of professional artists from a variety of disciplines.

David is a founding member and playwright-in-residence of Generous Company, a non-profit company focused on developing and producing works for stage, film and online media in a supportive, collaborative, generous environment.

His dissertation Developing Playwright(s) provided perspectives into the process of new play development and self-dramaturgy.

David worked as an instructor at the University of Missouri-Columbia in the fields of playwriting and acting and has taught solo performance at the National Theater Institute as well as at New College of Florida as a 2007 Teaching Fellow.

He has responded to plays, presented papers, and lectured at universities and regional conferences around the country on the topics of playwriting, writing plays based on game show models, playwriting as oral tradition, new play development, and dramaturgy.

In 2004, White was appointed to the position of Literary Manager and Director of Educational Outreach at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center in Waterford, Connecticut and worked there for three seasons developing new works by student playwrights as well as internationally known playwrights at the O'Neill National Playwrights Conference, Music Theater Conference and Cabaret Conference.

He also worked as dramaturg on Freedom of Speech a one-woman show by Eliza Jane Schneider (from television's South Park) and directed her latest show Sounds of Silence for the 2006 Ignite Festival in New York City.

As a playwright, White's plays have been produced in New York, university, and regional theaters in around the country. He is the author of a series of plays that explore issues of rural living in the fictional rural town of Last Chance, Missouri: Trash, Ain't Nothin' Quick 'n Easy, Watersheds, and Trailer.

In addition to attending numerous conferences, this spring David is teaching directing at Connecticut College, directing The Rambling Nut by Eric Love, and working as dramaturg on Rearviewmirror by Eric Winick at 59E59 in NYC.

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