Plays Written and/or Directed by David Schechter (Partial List):
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Angels In AmericaBy Tony KushnerDirected by David Schechter
Bard Theater, Rhinebeck, NY
The Pulitzer Prize winning play about love, politics, sex, AIDS, death and revelation
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Gimpel The FoolFrom Isaac Bashevis Singer’s short storyAdapted and Directed by David Schechter Soho Weekly News Theatre Pick of the Week. Honored with the personal endorsement of I.B.Singer, the Nobel Prize winning author.
“Beautifully adapted and directed….like a message written on a frosty window pane with a finger of fire.” – Soho Weekly News La Mama, ETC. NYC Isaac B. Singer’s signature story about the wise fool whose trusting nature is put to the test, first by the world around him and then by the Demon of Evil himself.
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From The Diary Of One Not BornFrom Isaac Bashevis Singer’s short storyAdapted and Directed by David Schechter
Soho Weekly News Theater Pick of the Week
“Chills even as it warms…the best yet staging of the Master’s work” – Soho Weekly News La Mama, ETC. NYC
In this surreal dance/play, the Demon of Evil returns to do more dirty work with
sometimes slapstick, sometimes chilling results.
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The MiserBy MoliereDirected by David Schechter
“Ebulliently directed, the production is a delight.” - The NY Times
Pearl Rep, NYC
Moliere’s timeless satire about greed and romance.
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CandidaBy George Bernard ShawDirected by David Schechter
Village Voice Critic’s Choice
Pearl Rep, NYC
Shaw’s classic about a wise woman and the two men vying for her love.
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Three SistersBy Anton ChekhovDirected by David Schechter
Williams Theatre, Williamstown, MA
Chekhov’s masterpiece about longing and lives deferred.
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A Midsummer Night's (Wet) DreamBy William ShakespeareAdapted and Directed by David Schechter
Bard Theatre, Rhinebeck, NY
Shakespeare’s favorite, reset in the illusory world of high fashion and in a hip, drug and
sex soaked after hours bar called The Wood, where no one is as they seem.
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Alice WithoutBy Nancy Kawalek and David SchechterBased on the writings of Alice B. Toklas Directed by David Schechter
The Writer’s Theatre, NYC
Alternately droll and moving, this one woman show explores the aftermath of Gertrude
Stein’s death, when her famous painting collection was confiscated from her life partner,
Alice B. Toklas, by the Stein family. Alice struggles to recreate the entire collection in
her mind, leading her to relive their friendships with the likes of Picasso, Matisse and
Braque.
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Finding NorthBy David GonzalezDirected and Dramaturged by David Schechter
Commissioned and Produced by Cincinnati Playhouse-in-the-Park
Running away from slavery, the play follows one man’s ride on the “Underground
Railway” to freedom.
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Our Country's GoodBy Timberlake WertenbakerDirected by David Schechter
Bard Theatre, Rhinebeck, NY
Prisoners and their keepers, in a penal colony in the newly colonized Australia, discover
their common humanity as they mount a play together.
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AntigoneBy SophoclesDirected by David Schechter
Bard Theatre, Rhinebeck NY
Bertolt Brecht’s version of the play, in a production re-imagined as a group of students’
Vietnam War protest play in the turbulent 1960’s.
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Marvin's RoomBy Scott McPhersonDirected by David Schechter
Bard Theatre, Rhinebeck, NY
A brilliant tragicomedy about illness, dysfunction and love.
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The Actor's NightmareBy Christopher DurangDirected by David Schechter
Bard Theatre, Rhinebeck, NY
A surreal jaunt into the absurd vicissitudes of an actor’s life.
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Before She Is Even BornBy Leah J. FriedmanDirected by David Schechter
NY premiere production
Queen’s Theatre, NYC
A mother bonds with her unborn child while haunted by her immigrant past.
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Luna ParkBy Donald MarguliesDirected by David Schechter
Queen’s Theatre, NYC
Adapted from Delmore Schwartz’s “In Dreams Begin Responsibilities,” a boy imagines
what his unhappy parents’ courtship might have been like in Coney Island.
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Double CrossedBy David GonzalezDirected by David Schechter
Commissioned by and produced at the
U.S. Holocaust Museum, Washington D.C.
The shameful true story of how, despite promises made, an entire ship of Jewish refugees
was denied access first to Cuba and then to the United States during W.W.2.
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Marat/SadeBy Peter WeissDirected by David Schechter
Buck’s Rock Playhouse, CT
The French Revolution re-enacted in an insane asylum as seen through the singular view
of the Marquis de Sade.
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Roots and Branches Intergenerational Theatre CompanyTen Original Theatre Pieces Co-Conceived, Co-Written and Directed by David Schechter
Tours of the NY Metropolitan Area.
David Schechter was Artist-In-Residence with Roots and Branches Intergenerational
Theatre Company for 10 years. The company consists of “Branches” in their teens and
twenties, and “Roots” ages 55 – 98 years old. Every year a new intergenerational theme
was explored through story telling and improvisation. From this input, an original theatre
piece was created and toured.
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