Professor David White was the director of a January workshop of Emmy-Award winning playwright Mary Sue Price’s Chat Rats: Oronogo at the William Inge Center for the Performing Arts in Independence, Kansas.  The workshop was part of the Inge Center’s Play Development Series, which is funded by the National Endowment for the Arts.   The workshop brought Price (playwright), White (director), and eight actors from across the region for a week of work culminating in a reading of work on the final day. Read more

Biography

Dave White is a playwright, director, scholar, and Associate Professor at Towson University. His scholarship focuses on playwriting, new work development, storytelling, and oral tradition. Dave’s research has taken him on several fellowships to Slovakia, Poland, and Russia, including a Likhachev Cultural Fellowship in St. Petersburg, Russia in 2014.  Dave’s directing work has been seen on the academic and professional levels in theaters from Baltimore to Carlsbad, California.  Dave has presented workshops and research at national and international conferences and festivals including: New Russian Drama Conference in Austin, Texas; Bridges: Art, Architecture, Music, and Mathematics in Coimbra, Portugal; Lyubimovka Playwrights Festival in Moscow, Russia; and the Festival of American Culture in Tashkent Uzbekistan. He has developed new works at ATHE, KCACTF, Towson Theatre Lab, WordBRIDGE Playwrights Lab (as Artistic Director), and at the O’Neill (as Literary Manager).  Dave’s plays have been presented in theaters in Colorado, Maryland, Massachusetts, Missouri, New York, South Carolina, Texas, West Virginia; and ArtFaq in Moscow, Russia.  His most recent work Dance on Bones: a jazz libretto for actors and musicianshas been developed and performed at Chesapeake Arts Center, Boston Conservatory, Towson University, Charlestown Working Theatre, and the Ilkhom Theatre in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.

Education: B.A., New College in Sarasota, Florida; M.A., University of Missouri-Kansas City; Ph.D., University of Missouri-Columbia.