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David has received commissions from South Coast Rep, Dance Theater Workshop and the Jerome Foundation, as well as awards from the Berilla Kerr Foundation, the Lincoln Center LeComte du Nuoy Fund, Mixed Blood Theater, Primary Stages, The Tennessee Williams Literary Festival and the South Carolina Playwrights Festival. Among his influences, Lindsay-Abaire lists playwrights John Guare , Edward Albee , Georges Feydeau , Eugene Ionesco , and George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart , 1930s screwball Comedy Film s '' My Man Godfrey '' and 20th Century or "anything by Preston Sturges , Frank Capra , the Marx Brothers and Abbott And Costello ." Walking a fine line between grave reality and joyous lunacy, the world of his plays is often dark, funny, blithe, enigmatic, hopeful, ironic- and somewhat cock-eyed. "My plays tend to be peopled with outsiders in search of clarity." He returned to the scene of his ''Fuddy Meers'' success, the Manhattan Theatre Club , last fall with Wonder of the World, starring Sarah Jessica Parker, about a wife who suddenly leaves her husband, and hops a bus to Niagara Falls in search of freedom, enlightenment and the meaning of life. Other plays he has written include, '' Rabbit Hole (2006) production starring Cynthia Nixon, Tyne Daly, John Slattery , '' Kimberly Akimbo '' ( 2000 ), '' Wonder Of The World '' ( 2000 ), '' Dotting And Dashing '' ( 1999 ), '' Dotting And Dashing '' ( 1999 ), '' Snow Angel '' ( 1999 ), '' The L'il Plays '' (1997) and '' A Devil Inside '' ( 1997 ). |
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