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BACK David Greenspan Show(s) (listed chronologically, most recent first) Position(s) Role(s) Theater Name Award Nominations Award(s) Won The Metal Children Actor Bruno Binelli / Father Derby Vineyard Theatre Coraline Book Lucille Lortel Theatre Coraline Actor Other Mother Lucille Lortel Theatre Old Comedy After Aristophane's Frogs Playwright East 13th Street/CSC Theatre Beebo Brinker Chronicles Actor Jack 37 Arts Theatre B 2008 Drama League Award Nomination, Distinguished Performance Award Some Men Actor Marty / Scoop / Camus / Archie / Second Stage Theatre 2007 Lucille Lortel Award Nomination, Outstanding Featured Actor 2007 Outer Critics Circle Award Nomination, Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play 2007 Obie Award, Performance Richard II Actor Bagot/Bishop of Carlisle East 13th Street/CSC Theatre Faust, Parts I & II Actor Mephistopheles East 13th Street/CSC Theatre 2007 Obie Award, Performance Happy Days Actor Willie East 13th Street/CSC Theatre The Wax Actor Ben Playwrights Horizons Saved or Destroyed Actor N/A Rattlestick Theatre Sueno Actor N/A MCC Theater High Life Actor Donnie Primary Stages Second-Hand Smoke Actor N/A Primary Stages The Boys in the Band Actor Harold Lucille Lortel Theatre 1996-1997 OBIE Award for Performance Phaedra Actor Messenger Vineyard Theatre The Home Show Pieces Playwright Joseph Papp Public Theater/Martinson Hall The Home Show Pieces Director Joseph Papp Public Theater/Martinson Hall The Home Show Pieces Actor N/A Joseph Papp Public Theater/Martinson Hall Dead Mother Playwright Joseph Papp Public Theater/Susan Stein Shiva Theater Dead Mother Director Joseph Papp Public Theater/Susan Stein Shiva Theater Dead Mother Actor Character 1-Harold Joseph Papp Public Theater/Susan Stein Shiva Theater Gonza the Lancer Director Joseph Papp Public Theater/Susan Stein Shiva Theater Kate's Diary Director Joseph Papp Public Theater/Susan Stein Shiva Theater Biography     DAVID GREENSPAN Acting credits include Terrence McNally’s Some Men at Second Stage, Richard II at CSC, Goethe’s Faust with Target Margin, David Grimm’s The Learned Ladies of Park Avenue at Hartford Stage, Kathleen Tolan’s The Wax at Playwrights Horizons, Harry Kondoleon’s Saved or Destroyed (directed by Craig Lucas) at Rattlestick, High Life and Second-hand Smoke at Primary Stages, Small Craft Warnings with Worth Street, José Rivera’s Sueño at MCC, Lipstick Traces with The Foundry, Richard Foreman’s Benita Canova and Mart Crowley’s The Boys in the Band (Obie, Drama Desk Nomination). He has directed and performed in his plays, Jack, Principia, The Home Show Pieces, 2 Samuel 11, Etc. at Home for Contemporary Theatre and Art, Dead Mother, or Shirley Not All in Vain at the Public, She Stoops to Comedy at Playwrights Horizons (Obie) and The Myopia, an epic burlesque of tragic proportion with The Foundry. His plays have been produced at theatres overseas, most notably The Royal Court in London and Stükke Theater in Berlin. He collaborated with composer Stephin Merritt and director Chen Shi- Zheng on The Orphan of Zhao and is assisting Mr. Chen on his adaptation of The Journey to the West. The Argument, based on Gerald Else’s writings about Aristotle’s Poetics, will be presented by Target Margin Theater in June under the direction of David Herskovits. Directing credits include Chikamatsu Monzaemon’s Gonza the Lancer at the Public and Kathleen Tolan’s Kate’s Diary at Playwrights Horizons. An alumnus of New Dramatists, he has received playwriting fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, Jerome Foundation, Joyce Mertz-Gilmore Foundation and Charles Revson Foundation. He received the 1993 McKnight Fellowship from the Playwrights Center, a 2002 CalArts/Alpert Award and a 2006 Lucille Lortel Foundation Fellowship. He holds a B.A. in Drama from the University of California at Irvine. If you have any additional information or corrections regarding any of the production entries please contact us at archives@lortel.org 322 Eighth Avenue, 21st Floor · New York, NY 10001 · Tel (212) 924-2817 · Fax (212) 989-0036 ©2002 Lucille Lortel Foundation. All rights reserved. Website development by Marketorial.com