David Caudle

David Caudle is an award-winning playwright and screenwriter from Miami, Florida, now living in Putnam Valley, New York with his husband, fashion designer Makoto Takada, a dog, two cats and ten chickens. He has written two short films that made festival rounds: Feet of Clay, directed by actor/director Carrie Preston, and Landfill, directed by Anezka Sebek. A screenplay and two teleplays are in various stages of development. His stage plays have been produced across the country at regional theatres and on college campuses. His most recent play, Visiting Hours, was named Best New Play of the year by the Times-Picayune for its premiere in New Orleans, followed by an acclaimed Miami production and a planned NYC production upcoming. Likeness, set in Colonial Boston, had two critically-acclaimed productions and was presented in 2015 at Federal Hall on Wall Street, followed in 2016 by a publication in the online literary journal, Blackbird. His best-known play, The Sunken Living Room, won the Ambie Award for Best New Play, was a Gold Medal Finalist for the Pinter Review Prize, and is published by Samuel French. A few of his plays are also published on indietheaternow.com. Mr. Caudle was a featured signer in the Drama Book Shop's booth at the first annual BroadwayCon. Mr. Caudle was both a Williams Scholar and a Dakin Fellow at the Sewanee Writers Conference. He is an alumnus of the Dorothy Strelsin New American Writers Group at Primary Stages, and has also developed work at the New Harmony Project, the Sewanee Writer's Conference, Premiere Stages, Downstage Miami, and the Blank Theatre in L.A. www.davidcaudle.org