David Templeton is an award-winning Bay Area playwright and arts journalist. He wrote his first play in second grade, started his own theater company while in high school in Southern California, and after entering journalism as a profession, served as a theater reviewer in Northern California for 16 years. In 2006, he was granted a fellowship to the NEA Arts Journalism Institute in Theater and Musical Theater (sponsored by the University of Southern California School of Journalism's of the Annenberg School for Communications).
His play "Galatea" was the recipient of a 2022 Steinberg/ATCA New Play citation award, after receiving honorable mention in the 2021 William Glickman New Play Awards. It went on to win Best Original Play and Best Production in the Bay Area. Templeton has won awards...
David Templeton is an award-winning Bay Area playwright and arts journalist. He wrote his first play in second grade, started his own theater company while in high school in Southern California, and after entering journalism as a profession, served as a theater reviewer in Northern California for 16 years. In 2006, he was granted a fellowship to the NEA Arts Journalism Institute in Theater and Musical Theater (sponsored by the University of Southern California School of Journalism's of the Annenberg School for Communications).
His play "Galatea" was the recipient of a 2022 Steinberg/ATCA New Play citation award, after receiving honorable mention in the 2021 William Glickman New Play Awards. It went on to win Best Original Play and Best Production in the Bay Area. Templeton has won awards for his writing of “Wretch Like Me,” which has had runs at the San Francisco Fringe Festival and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, in Scotland. In addition to “Polar Bears,” his other plays include “Pinky,” “Drumming With Anubis,” “Mary Shelley’s Body” (the latter adapted from his novella of the same name, published in the 2016 anthology “Eternal Frankenstein.” David’s newest play is a three-actor comedy titled "Featherbaby, which will have its world premiere in August of 2025. He is currently at work on a play about female boxers (title: "Ghost Punch"), a sequel to "Drumming with Anubis" (title: "Drumming With Morgana"), a comedy-thriller ("The Rabbit") and a new autobiographical solo show ((title: "Space Junk.")/ A collection of his previously produced fantasy/science-fiction/horror plays, with the title "Monsters, Gods and Robots: Four Plays of the Weird and Fantastic," will be published by Word Horde Books in 2025.