Doug DeVita

Doug is a two-time O’Neill Semi-Finalist (Fable and Just A Rumor), Semi-Finalist for Barrington Stage Company's Burman New Play Award, Normal Avenue’s New American Play Series, and Campfire Theatre Festival (Phillie’s Trilogy), Semi-Finalist for B Street Theatre’s New Comedy Festival (Goddess Of The Hunt and Upper Division), Semi-Finalist for Middlebury Acting Company's American Dreaming Festival (All The King's Horses), and Semi-Finalist for We Screenplay’s Diverse Voices Competition (The Fierce Urgency Of Now).

In addition, he has won Fresh Fruit Awards of Distinction for Outstanding Play (The Fierce Urgency Of Now) and Outstanding Production (Fierce… and Phillie’s Trilogy) as well as the Inaugural (and so far only) Scrap Mettle Arts Emerging Playwrights Competition (Phillie's Trilogy...

Doug is currently an advisory board member for All Out Arts, and formerly an Artistic Director for Westside Repertory Theater. His work has been seen in New York, Los Angeles, Seattle, New Jersey, Connecticut, and London, and has been developed at the Kennedy Center in Washington DC (Mark Bly, Gary Garrison, Jacqueline Goldfinger, and Caleen Jennings), at Davenport Theatrical's Writers Workshop with Eric Webb, and ESPA/Primary Stages in New York (Melisa Annis, Robert Askins, Rogelio Martinez, Winter Miller, and Michael Walkup). He has also studied with Karen Hartman, and Jeffrey Sweet.

A member of the Dramatists Guild, he has had work published by Next Stage Press and Smith & Kraus.

Website: https://www.dougdevitaplays.com/

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Representation

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Crazy Quilts

by Karen Fix Curry

Compelling characters and a timely story fuel this dark comedy, which at times can be so dark it’s horrifying, and horrifying that it’s so funny. Beware of the ski slopes. Just sayin’.

Compelling characters and a timely story fuel this dark comedy, which at times can be so dark it’s horrifying, and horrifying that it’s so funny. Beware of the ski slopes. Just sayin’.
TATTOO: A Tale of Terror

by Greg Burdick

Intense and horrifying, Burdick writes in a dreamlike state, building the tension and the horror in small but insistent increments until everything explodes like a nightmare from which there is no waking. Chilling, fascinating, and I loved every minute of it. I may not sleep for a month, but I loved it.

Intense and horrifying, Burdick writes in a dreamlike state, building the tension and the horror in small but insistent increments until everything explodes like a nightmare from which there is no waking. Chilling, fascinating, and I loved every minute of it. I may not sleep for a month, but I loved it.
The Suicide Table

by Kris Thompson

Kris Thompson's probing, compassionate look into the reasons why (or why not) someone would want (or not) to end their life is at times horrifying, touching, heartbreaking, and not without flashes of humor, a compelling if darkly theatrical piece of storytelling. Not an easy read, but absolutely worth it.

Kris Thompson's probing, compassionate look into the reasons why (or why not) someone would want (or not) to end their life is at times horrifying, touching, heartbreaking, and not without flashes of humor, a compelling if darkly theatrical piece of storytelling. Not an easy read, but absolutely worth it.
RADIATOR

by Craig Houk

Excellent two-hander from Houk; typically twisted Houkian characters, conflict and tension expertly delivered, and quite a bit of humor keep the steam rising with consistent energy. Great fun and well done.

Excellent two-hander from Houk; typically twisted Houkian characters, conflict and tension expertly delivered, and quite a bit of humor keep the steam rising with consistent energy. Great fun and well done.
KING

by Gene Kato

What darkly absurdist fun, like Mel Brooks and Hans Christian Andersen collaborated using acid-dipped quills. Kato neatly disguises the chilling message behind a blizzard of nearly non-stop one liners, dad jokes, and quick-witted ripostes piling up until you realize you’re in way over your head, trapped like the snowman at the center of the plot. Chilling, but hilarious.

What darkly absurdist fun, like Mel Brooks and Hans Christian Andersen collaborated using acid-dipped quills. Kato neatly disguises the chilling message behind a blizzard of nearly non-stop one liners, dad jokes, and quick-witted ripostes piling up until you realize you’re in way over your head, trapped like the snowman at the center of the plot. Chilling, but hilarious.

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Doug DeVita

Scripts

Crazy Quilts

TATTOO: A Tale of Terror

The Suicide Table

RADIATOR

KING