I'm pursuing playwrighting late in life. I directed and taught theatre from the mid 1970s with periodic stints as an actor. Occasionally, I helped devise a play (as a director/playwright) or worked to adapt/translate older plays for companies I was involved with. Then in 2011 the Equity theatre I managed suffered a recessionary demise, and feeling liberated, I turned toward writing.
Thanks to the generosity of the many actors I know, my scripts have benefitted from numerous readings and discussions in New York, DC, California, and Italy. And although I'm clearly of a "certain age", I feel like a pup.
I am now able to devote a good amount of time to scripts and other writing projects. While all of the scripts listed are advanced or post-production drafts, most have not been...
I'm pursuing playwrighting late in life. I directed and taught theatre from the mid 1970s with periodic stints as an actor. Occasionally, I helped devise a play (as a director/playwright) or worked to adapt/translate older plays for companies I was involved with. Then in 2011 the Equity theatre I managed suffered a recessionary demise, and feeling liberated, I turned toward writing.
Thanks to the generosity of the many actors I know, my scripts have benefitted from numerous readings and discussions in New York, DC, California, and Italy. And although I'm clearly of a "certain age", I feel like a pup.
I am now able to devote a good amount of time to scripts and other writing projects. While all of the scripts listed are advanced or post-production drafts, most have not been rehearsed, so of course, remain in-progress. If you see anything here you'd be interested in workshopping or developing in some other way, please let me know.
As a more conventional bio:
David Zarko was producing artistic director of Electric Theatre Company in Scranton, PA from 2001 to 2011. He was also founding artistic director of The Metropolitan Playhouse of New York (1991 - 2000), now on East Fourth Street, and was previously artistic director of Parsifal's Players and The Fabulous Theatre Co., both in California. During his nineteen years in New York City, he worked as director and instructor at American Academy of Dramatic Arts, and Long Island University C.W. Post Campus. In addition, he has over 90 professional directing credits and at least 50 in academic theatre. He is also a produced playwright, an actor, is a member of The Dramatists Guild and Stage Directors and Choreographers Society, and holds a BFA in Dramatic Production from the University of Arizona, Tucson. As a playwright, he has written, translated, and adapted about twenty scripts, about half of which have been produced in the U.S. He is currently on a self-styled (and open-ended) writer's retreat in Orvieto, Italy. A complete resume and CV can be found at www.davidzarko.us