David Earle

David Earle

Recipient of 91 awards, nominations and honors at film festivals and screenplay competitions nationally and internationally (list available on IMDb and LinkedIn), writer David Earle was born and raised in Anaheim, California, and lived fifteen years in the Los Angeles area where he worked at various entertainment industry companies; Taft/Barish Productions, New World Pictures, Rogers & Cowan, Hollywood...
Recipient of 91 awards, nominations and honors at film festivals and screenplay competitions nationally and internationally (list available on IMDb and LinkedIn), writer David Earle was born and raised in Anaheim, California, and lived fifteen years in the Los Angeles area where he worked at various entertainment industry companies; Taft/Barish Productions, New World Pictures, Rogers & Cowan, Hollywood Records, and Walt Disney in Creative Development at Disney Imagineering. He currently resides in Charleston, South Carolina where he writes prolifically, varying from comedies to dramas, from novels to screenplays to plays, of which he has had four plays produced in the U.S. and Australia. Credits include - After the Wedding; A Road to Nowhere; They're Having a Deadly Good Time; and Postnuptials. Postnuptials, an adult farce, had its Australian premiere at the Parade Theatres in Sydney where it was chosen as the theatrical event for the 2013 Sydney LGBTQ Mardi Gras festivities. Both the Postnuptials stage play and its (unproduced) screenplay adaptation have been nominated or won a number of awards at film festivals internationally. He adapted his one-act stage drama, A Road to Nowhere, into a screenplay short (unproduced) that has received several international film festival awards. His sci-fi novel, Life Is But A Dream, is selling worldwide in 248 countries (notably on Amazon and Barnes & Noble). The (unproduced) screenplay adaptation of Life Is But A Dream, that he wrote, has won him many awards and nominations at a number of international film festivals while Writers Guild of America chose Life Is But A Dream for a full cast industry reading at the WGAW building in Los Angeles due to the ethnic diversity of its characters. His five-episode true story limited series, Pelée, currently in pre-development, has also won him numerous awards internationally. The most recent screenplay of his is another multi-award-winning true story drama titled, Searching for Michael. In addition, he has written the novelette, The Remarkable Travels of Billy Sparks, and short story, The Calla Lilies.

David Earle is a proud member of the Dramatists Guild of America and Writers Guild of America West.

Plays

  • A Road to Nowhere by David Earle
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    Genre: drama, horror + 1 more
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    Keyword: macabre, motel + 5 more
    Genre: drama, horror, mystery/thriller
    Keyword: macabre, motel, purgatory, suspense, afterlife, life after death, death
    Finding he is lost and alone at night on an unfamiliar desolate rural country road following an auto accident, Sam Kaufman, a middle-aged man businessman, seeks help at an eerily unimpressive roadside motel. However, the bleak and depressing ambiance of the place proves to be of little consequence compared to the bizarre behavior of the motel manager and his guests. Gradually, Sam comes to realize the macabre...
    Finding he is lost and alone at night on an unfamiliar desolate rural country road following an auto accident, Sam Kaufman, a middle-aged man businessman, seeks help at an eerily unimpressive roadside motel. However, the bleak and depressing ambiance of the place proves to be of little consequence compared to the bizarre behavior of the motel manager and his guests. Gradually, Sam comes to realize the macabre circumstances of where he is and that the road that led him to this motel was, in fact, a road to nowhere.
  • Postnuptials by David Earle
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    Genre: comedy, farce + 1 more
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    Keyword: LGBTQ, gay marriage + 5 more
    Genre: comedy, farce, romantic comedy
    Keyword: LGBTQ, gay marriage, wedding, newlyweds, family, social issues, Apartment
    A ménage à trois of love, secrets and drag, set in present-day Fresno, California that begins shortly after newlyweds Kevin and Lillian cross that threshold of matrimony only to have their first night of wedded bliss degenerated into a nightmare of chaos and confusion when a female impersonator from the Las Vegas strip named Joey (a.k.a. Amber Star) arrives at their apartment with the intent of bringing closure...
    A ménage à trois of love, secrets and drag, set in present-day Fresno, California that begins shortly after newlyweds Kevin and Lillian cross that threshold of matrimony only to have their first night of wedded bliss degenerated into a nightmare of chaos and confusion when a female impersonator from the Las Vegas strip named Joey (a.k.a. Amber Star) arrives at their apartment with the intent of bringing closure with his husband who jilted him the morning after their impromptu wedding one year prior. When the news that “Kevin is a homosexual bigamist married to a drag queen” reaches the wedding party still at the reception; in-laws, a sibling maid of honor, a drunken best man, and a dim-witted ex-fiancé join the fray that culminates into a surprise ending where unpredictable pairings are formed while another crumbles, an epiphany over love versus steadfast principles is realized, and someone comes out of the closet.

    Postnuptials is a contemporary adult farce examining human behavior with a modern twist while it explores thematic concerns of gay marriage, heterosexual infidelity, the extent of unconditional love, and an individual's quest to challenge parental conditioning, laid down in childhood that at times may inhibit an adult's own choices in life, and perhaps the meeting of true minds and hearts in a search for love. The themes focused upon in Postnuptials are the universality of the human need to be loved and respected no matter the gender, race, religion or sexual preference. In particular, the play explores notions of love in relation to conventional marriage and gay marriage, which reinforces love, trust, and respect.