About the Author:
David West Read already has an enviable educational pedigree, and the young playwright is quickly amassing a body of work to back it up. His NYU masters' thesis play Happy Face was part of the 2010 Pacific Playwrights Festival at South Coast Repertory and had a staged reading directed by Sam Gold (Circle Mirror Transformation). Another play, The Dream of the Burning Boy, in which the sudden death of a high school overachiever tortures the dreams of a doting teacher, was workshopped at the 2010 National Playwrights Conference at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center. Now Read will get his first full New York production when Burning Boy bows at the Roundabout Underground on February 25. The talented young writer recently reflected on this milestone experience with Broadway.com, including why it’s worth reliving his own less-than-blissful high school days to see this story come to life.
I’ve been in and out of several educational institutions since graduating from high school almost a decade ago—the University of Toronto for my B.A., New York University for my M.F.A., and now the Playwrights Program at the Juilliard School—but still, it’s nightmares ...
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