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David Rimmer is the author of ALBUM, an Off-Broadway comedy hit and Pulitzer Prize finalist. It played for a year at the Cherry Lane Theater and has been steadily produced at regional and community theaters, colleges and secondary schools, for four decades. Published by Dramatists Play Service and Nelson Doubleday, many reprints in scene and monologue. ...

David Rimmer is the author of ALBUM, an Off-Broadway comedy hit and Pulitzer Prize finalist. It played for a year at the Cherry Lane Theater and has been steadily produced at regional and community theaters, colleges and secondary schools, for four decades. Published by Dramatists Play Service and Nelson Doubleday, many reprints in scene and monologue collections. His most recent publication is NEW YORK, a play originally written as a benefit for Disaster Psychiatry Outreach after the September 2001 attacks. Published by Samuel French and now being produced by amateur, regional, school and professional groups throughout the world, including England, Australia, New Zealand, Switzerland, the Edinburgh Festival in Scotland, and all over this country, including a 6-month run at Theater Studio, NYC. He’s also the author of: YANKEE WIVES (Old Globe Theater Mainstage, San Diego; Two Roads Theater, Los Angeles; Shetler Studios and Hudson Guild Theater, NY); NOBODY DIES (many college productions) and THE REUNION GUY (The Williams Club, HB Studios, Rockaway Park Dinner Theater, LaGuardia Community College). His one-acts include MISS SUBWAYS MEETS THE SEX MACHINE, STRAY BULLETS and GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH (all at Playwrights Horizons), THE PAINTED NAME (LaGuardia Community College) and THE EVENING NEWS (St. Ann’s, Brooklyn). His scenes and monologues are printed in many collections. David has written screenplays and television scripts for major studios -- Disney, Universal, Twentieth-Century Fox and Viacom -- including TRON and CHARLES IN CHARGE. Recent writing projects include: BUMP, his young-adult novel he’s now adapting for the stage; SONNET 116, an original screenplay, and the adaptions of ALBUM and NOBODY DIES for the screen. He directed a short film based on the full-length screenplay of ALBUM, which has had successful screenings at film festivals in New York City and Iowa. David teaches English at LaGuardia Community College and often incorporates theater into his classrooms. He’s helped develop and stage many student-written productions, including the full-length What If They Had a Draft and Nobody Came, in collaboration with a Creative Drama class. New York, Nobody Dies and Album (under his direction) have also enjoyed LaGuardia productions. His most recent directing/producing project was The Reunion Guy, featuring a cast of LaGuardia faculty, students and staff. He directed a short film in his last class, based on the television pilot he’s writing for Skyscraper Films, Murder Avenue. He’s currently revising the script, and writing poems whenever he gets a chance.

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