scripts

Synopses of David's work are below.

Partial scripts (.pdfs) are available via the download buttons - click the icon at right if you need Adobe Reader. Click contact for information on obtaining complete scripts, or click any "stage a production" link to license a complete play package.
 

ADAM
Adam Dobbs is a man in his early 40's who seems to have everything, yet his marriage and family are crumbling. When he is crippled by a hit-and-run driver, he's forced to reassess what is important in his life.

Adam takes on a major corporation when it threatens to destroy his community by closing down a large industrial plant that employs many of its residents. By risking everything in his life and "reinventing" himself, Adam finds the courage to stand up for his beliefs and in so doing, earns the respect of the community.

ADAM is the powerfully gripping tale of a man who must start his journey again.
 

AFFIRMATIVE ACTION
A man's twenty-year journey takes him from the radical 60's and Vietnam war-era through the swinging indulgence of the 70's and revolutionary Reagan 80's to find his high school sweetheart. Besides delusion and broken promises he finds hope for better understanding and acceptance.
 

BOARSHEAD
A delightful, romantic comedy that celebrates actors, acting, and the 99-seat theatre venue in Los Angeles.

Trying to regain his self-esteem, an egoistic actor assembles a group of struggling, unemployed actors to play Shakespeare in a converted storefront in seedy Hollywood.

BOARSHEAD will make a touching but hilarious ensemble movie.
 

CHARLES DICKENS'S GHOST STORIES
Adapted from a collection of Dickens's eerie Victorian tales, David preserves the original's humor, romance, and eeriness, while evoking Dickens's fascination with the macabre. A lively mixture of comedy, pathos, and the supernatural, the stories include The Signalman, The Bagman's Uncle, The Queer Chair, and The Portrait-Painter's Story. stage a production
 

DOG'S DAY
A joyous comedy about a man who finds love and enlightenment with the help of a stray dog.

His fight against City Hall turns strangers into friends, friends into family, and proves that a dog is everyone's best friend.
 

EDDIE'S BOYS
A television pilot about friends you thought you knew and the lover you will never forget.

A gay "Golden Girls" meets "Sex and the City."
 

THE HOUSE OF THE SEVEN GABLES
Mysterious deaths, hidden documents, ghosts from the past, lovers from opposite sides of a centuries-old curse, and family secrets interweave in David's adaptation Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel of haunting tragedy and romance. In this dark, Gothic love story, Hawthorne expresses the belief that new hope and promise can supersede the grim despair of the past.   stage a production

Note: A dramatic musical background score for THE HOUSE OF THE SEVEN GABLES composed by Kathleen Dahill is available on compact disc for use with amateur productions for $19.99 (plus shipping). Please contact www.wildwdstudios.com for further information.
 

MORE THAN A FRIEND
After being severely beaten by a young male psychopath, the 40ish Joanne abandons her work on the streets of New York City and struggles to build a new life.

Her journey brings her face to face with the daughter she gave up 24 years earlier, and with her daughter's fiancée . . . the same man who nearly killed Joanne five years earlier.

The final showdown at her daughter's wedding, proves Joanne to be MORE THAN A FRIEND.
 

THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY
Adapted from the novel by Oscar Wilde, about a beautiful young man who doesn't age while his portrait ages and decays with every sin, David's play is a tightly woven thriller of suspense, homoerotic subtext, and Wilde's biting wit.
 

ST. JUDE'S
Kirk, a successful, but closeted gay man in his late 30's, is secretly mourning the recent death of his partner.

Kirk decides to volunteer some time at St. Jude's, a hospice, where he meets Marcy, a foul-mouthed, over-weight, single mother and nurse, and Jim, a rough, hard-living man who is dying alone of cancer. Jim confesses he was one of the bullies who taunted and beat Kirk when they attended high school.

ST. JUDE'S is a story of forgiveness and the unconventional love of three strangers who become a family.
 

TENDER
Based on true incidents, David's play explores the love-hate relationship between F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway, and how their dangerous intimate friendship spirals Fitzgerald's wife Zelda into the depths of madness. Set in Paris, the action takes place on one night in 1927 when Hemingway visits Fitzgerald for assistance with his first novel, The Sun Also Rises.
 

WALKING MOLLY
This love story set in New York City in the late 1980s, features a young man confronting his fears of loving someone who is HIV Positive.

The two men meet accidentally through Molly, a stubborn Scottish Terrier who brings them together on her daily walk through Central Park. While facing his partner's mortality, the protagonist reluctantly finds himself immersed in the daily life and rituals of his lover and his dog.

WALKING MOLLY is about the triumph of love in the face of adversity.