Interested in my plays? Drop me a line!
davidleewhiteplaywright@gmail.com
David Lee White is a playwright/performer/educator based in New Jersey. David is a lifelong devotee of using the arts to build and celebrate community through his years of training as a playwright and comedian. His collaborative work with theatres and educational institutions includes farce, musicals and verbatim theatre, all created in concert with local artists, young people and community members. His work with Kate Brennan on The Infinity Trilogy, a series of YA musicals, was the recipient of a MAP Fund award, and the first musical in the trilogy, ALiEN8, is now available through YouthPLAYS. David was also in the inaugural group of playwrights to receive commissions from the New Jersey Performing Arts Centers’ Stage Exchange Program. The result was FIXED – a play about navigating the mental healthcare system. His mental health awareness work continued with PANTHER HOLLOW, his solo show about his battle with clinical depression in his youth.
For 14 years, David was the Associate Artistic Director at Passage Theatre in Trenton, NJ which specialized in community-based work and developing new works by noteworthy, contemporary playwrights. While there, he workshopped and produced the farces BLOOD: A COMEDY and SLIPPERY AS SIN, as well as the oral-history works TRENTON LIGHTS and PROFILES, co-created with Artistic Director June Ballinger. He has continued working with Passage as an artist, on collaborative projects such as THE OK TRENTON PROJECT and JANET WIDE-AWAKE (with Rich Bradford).
2025 saw the staging of ETIQUETTE, a comedy developed by Pier Players and premiering with Vivid Stage, with a third production from Lomotion Live scheduled for November, 2026. Vivid Stage also recently produced an audio production of his play WAYS TO HAPPY. Other plays in development include THE FESTIAL QUARTET, ROCKET SEX MAGIC and LOLA DAYDREAM.
David also teaches Advanced Improvisation, Theatre History and Dramatic Analysis at Drexel University, where he co-created the web-series ESSENTIAL with director Bill Fennelly. He also regularly offers classes at Rider University and Mercer County Community College. He is the Artistic Director of OnStage – a theatrical storytelling company sponsored by the Center for Modern Aging in Princeton.
2023 marked the sixth production of ALiEN8 at the Bucks County Playhouse, as well as the premiere of CLEAN SLATE, his second musical with Kate Brennan, as a co-production between Passage Theatre and Rider University. Since then, he and Kate Brennan have gone to develop ANATOMY OF A FLOOD (with Arcadia University) BOOK OF WONDER (a novel and musical, at the Forestburgh Playhouse) NO MAP HOME (Bucks County Playhouse) and the plays BLEEDING HEART ACADEMY PRESENTS (Steel River Playhouse), LIBRARY AT THE END OF THE WORLD (Montgomery County Community College) and BIG BABIES (Pier Players.)
The Spring of 2023 also saw the premiere of the musical THE ANGRY GRAMMARIAN (with Jeffrey Barg) at Pier Players in Philadelphia. The film A RELATIVE COMEDY (an adaptation of his play BLOOD: A COMEDY) was co-written with Dave Maulbeck and Maribeth Theroux and directed by Laura Ekstrand.
Download my resume here – DLW Playwright Resume.
David Lee White 