DAVID GREENSPAN Acting credits include Terrence McNally’s Some Men at Second Stage, Richard II at CSC, Goethe’s Faust with Target Margin, David Grimm’s The Learned Ladies of Park Avenue at Hartford Stage, Kathleen Tolan’s The Wax at Playwrights Horizons, Harry Kondoleon’s Saved or Destroyed (directed by Craig Lucas) at Rattlestick, High Life and Second-hand Smoke at Primary Stages, Small Craft Warnings with Worth Street, José Rivera’s Sueño at MCC, Lipstick Traces with The Foundry, Richard Foreman’s Benita Canova and Mart Crowley’s The Boys in the Band (Obie, Drama Desk Nomination). He has directed and performed in his plays, Jack, Principia, The Home Show Pieces, 2 Samuel 11, Etc. at Home for Contemporary Theatre and Art, Dead Mother, or Shirley Not All in Vain at the Public, She Stoops to Comedy at Playwrights Horizons (Obie) and The Myopia, an epic burlesque of tragic proportion with The Foundry. His plays have been produced at theatres overseas, most notably The Royal Court in London and Stükke Theater in Berlin. He collaborated with composer Stephin Merritt and director Chen Shi- Zheng on The Orphan of Zhao and is assisting Mr. Chen on his adaptation of The Journey to the West. The Argument, based on Gerald Else’s writings about Aristotle’s Poetics, will be presented by Target Margin Theater in June under the direction of David Herskovits. Directing credits include Chikamatsu Monzaemon’s Gonza the Lancer at the Public and Kathleen Tolan’s Kate’s Diary at Playwrights Horizons. An alumnus of New Dramatists, he has received playwriting fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, Jerome Foundation, Joyce Mertz-Gilmore Foundation and Charles Revson Foundation. He received the 1993 McKnight Fellowship from the Playwrights Center, a 2002 CalArts/Alpert Award and a 2006 Lucille Lortel Foundation Fellowship. He holds a B.A. in Drama from the University of California at Irvine.

	Production	Theatre	Opened	Credit
1	The Patsy	Abrons Arts Center/ Playhouse	04/10/2022	N/A
2	Once Upon a Mattress	Abrons Arts Center/ Playhouse	12/13/2015	King Sextimus
3	Punk Rock	Lucille Lortel Theatre	11/17/2014	Dr. Richard Harvey
4	A Midsummer Night's Dream	East 13th Street/CSC Theatre	04/29/2012	Francis Flute/Cobweb
5	The Patsy	The Duke on 42nd Street	07/24/2011	N/A
6	Go Back To Where You Are	Playwrights Horizons/ Peter Jay Sharp Theater	04/12/2011	Passalus
7	Orlando	East 13th Street/CSC Theatre	09/23/2010	Ensemble
8	The Metal Children	Vineyard Theatre	05/19/2010	Bruno Binelli / Father Derby
9	Coraline	Lucille Lortel Theatre	06/01/2009	Other Mother
10	Beebo Brinker Chronicles	37 Arts/ Theatre B	03/05/2008	Jack
11	Some Men	Second Stage Theatre	03/26/2007	Marty / Scoop / Camus / Archie /
12	Richard II	East 13th Street/CSC Theatre	09/17/2006	Bagot/Bishop of Carlisle
13	Faust, Parts I & II	East 13th Street/CSC Theatre	04/30/2006	Mephistopheles
14	Happy Days	East 13th Street/CSC Theatre	02/15/2005	Willie
15	The Wax	Playwrights Horizons	12/12/2000	Ben
16	Sueno	MCC Theater	03/01/1999	N/A
17	High Life	Primary Stages	01/03/1999	Donnie
18	Second-Hand Smoke	Primary Stages	01/16/1997	N/A
19	The Boys in the Band	Lucille Lortel Theatre	08/06/1996	Harold
20	Phaedra	Vineyard Theatre	04/21/1995	Messenger
21	The Home Show Pieces	Joseph Papp Public Theater/ Martinson Hall	01/14/1992	N/A
22	Dead Mother	Joseph Papp Public Theater/ Susan Stein Shiva Theater	01/08/1991	Character 1-Harold

	Production	Theatre	Opened	Credit
1	Go Back To Where You Are	Playwrights Horizons/ Peter Jay Sharp Theater	04/12/2011	Playwright
2	Coraline	Lucille Lortel Theatre	06/01/2009	Book
3	Old Comedy After Aristophane's Frogs	East 13th Street/CSC Theatre	05/11/2008	Playwright
4	The Home Show Pieces	Joseph Papp Public Theater/ Martinson Hall	01/14/1992	Playwright
5	Dead Mother	Joseph Papp Public Theater/ Susan Stein Shiva Theater	01/08/1991	Playwright

	Production	Theatre	Opened	Credit
1	The Home Show Pieces	Joseph Papp Public Theater/ Martinson Hall	01/14/1992	Director
2	Dead Mother	Joseph Papp Public Theater/ Susan Stein Shiva Theater	01/08/1991	Director
3	Gonza the Lancer	Joseph Papp Public Theater/ Susan Stein Shiva Theater	10/09/1990	Director
4	Kate's Diary	Joseph Papp Public Theater/ Susan Stein Shiva Theater	11/21/1989	Director

		Award	Production	Function
1	NOMINATED	2012 Outer Critics Circle Award, Outstanding Solo Performance	The Patsy	Actor
2	NOMINATED	2008 Drama League Award, Distinguished Performance	Beebo Brinker Chronicles	Actor
3	NOMINATED	2007 Lucille Lortel Award, Outstanding Featured Actor	Some Men	Actor
4	NOMINATED	2007 Drama League Award, Distinguished Performance	Some Men	Actor
5	WON	2007 Obie Award, Performance	Faust, Parts I & II	Actor
6	WON	2007 Obie Award, Performance	Some Men	Actor
7	NOMINATED	2007 Outer Critics Circle Award, Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play	Some Men	Actor
8	WON	1997 Obie Award, Performance	The Boys in the Band	Actor