Dave Huber

Dave Huber is a playwright, screenwriter, actor, director, and veteran theatre educator. His plays include Dutch Leftovers, The Phoenix Will Not Be Rising Today, The Diary of Maria, Would You Like Ice With That? and Ladies Underwear. Dutch Leftovers earned a two week workshop from Prologue Theatre Company’s Forward 2026 New Works Series, and finalist recognition from Pegasus PlayLab New Play Festival, and The Road Theatre Summer Playwrights Festival. His one-act The Diary of Maria will be produced at multiple festivals nationwide and was published in QU Literary Magazine. As a theatre educator for 30 years, he taught acting, directing, and playwriting, directing over 100 full-length productions and producing hundreds of student-written short plays. When he is not writing plays he is...

Dave Huber is a playwright, screenwriter, actor, director, and veteran theatre educator. His plays include Dutch Leftovers, The Phoenix Will Not Be Rising Today, The Diary of Maria, Would You Like Ice With That? and Ladies Underwear. Dutch Leftovers earned a two week workshop from Prologue Theatre Company’s Forward 2026 New Works Series, and finalist recognition from Pegasus PlayLab New Play Festival, and The Road Theatre Summer Playwrights Festival. His one-act The Diary of Maria will be produced at multiple festivals nationwide and was published in QU Literary Magazine. As a theatre educator for 30 years, he taught acting, directing, and playwriting, directing over 100 full-length productions and producing hundreds of student-written short plays. When he is not writing plays he is reading plays, acting, running off the many calories from eating at the many great restaurants in Pasadena, and collecting all things track and field.

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Scripts

The Diary of Maria

by Dave Huber

2
Cast Size
2
Genre
drama

Maria, a 17-year-old high school senior, is left waiting outside her school late at night after a performance when her father never arrives to pick her up. As her drama teacher, Mr. Harris, keeps her company as they wait, casual conversation about the play and acting slowly gives way to a devastating truth.

Maria, a 17-year-old high school senior, is left waiting outside her school late at night after a performance when her father never arrives to pick her up. As her drama teacher, Mr. Harris, keeps her company as they wait, casual conversation about the play and acting slowly gives way to a devastating truth.

Bird in the Fire

by Dave Huber

Cast Size
7
Genre
drama,
tragedy

Bird in the Fire is a drama about a town fire that destroys a family home and forces two cousins to confront shared trauma. As media coverage frames the disaster as a story of rebirth, the play focuses instead on survival, grief, and the quiet human connections that help people endure when healing is incomplete and the past cannot be erased.

Bird in the Fire is a drama about a town fire that destroys a family home and forces two cousins to confront shared trauma. As media coverage frames the disaster as a story of rebirth, the play focuses instead on survival, grief, and the quiet human connections that help people endure when healing is incomplete and the past cannot be erased.

The Leftovers

by Dave Huber

Cast Size
6
Genre
drama,
tragedy

The Leftovers is a darkly comic family drama about grief, silence, and the emotional leftovers of death. Tommy, a mortuary owner who copes with loss through detachment and humor, lives with his sister Bea and her husband Frank after their father’s death. When Bea becomes pregnant, long-buried trauma resurfaces as death and new life occupy every space. As old lies unravel and ghosts—literal and emotional—appear...

The Leftovers is a darkly comic family drama about grief, silence, and the emotional leftovers of death. Tommy, a mortuary owner who copes with loss through detachment and humor, lives with his sister Bea and her husband Frank after their father’s death. When Bea becomes pregnant, long-buried trauma resurfaces as death and new life occupy every space. As old lies unravel and ghosts—literal and emotional—appear, the family is forced to confront how avoidance has shaped their lives. The play explores how refusing to talk about death isolates the living, and how facing grief honestly is the only way to make room for love, renewal, hope, and life.

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