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David White

Dave White (he/him/his) is a director, playwright, and professor at Towson University with a focus is on nurturing new and diverse voices for the stage. 

Dave White (he/him/his) is a director, playwright, and professor at Towson University with a focus on nurturing new and diverse voices for the stage.  A recipient of a 2014 Likhachev Cultural Fellowship to St. Petersburg, Russia, Dave’s resulting work, Dance on Bones: a jazz libretto for actors and musicians, has been presented in the U.S. and Tashkent, Uzbekistan. Working with Yury Urnov, Dave translated two plays that were featured in John Freedman’s anthology, Real and Phantom Pains: An Anthology of New Russian Drama.  Dave has worked with Philip Arnoult and CITD for over a decade, traveling to Slovakia, Poland, and the Golden Mask Festival in Moscow, Russia; directing Yury Klavdiev’s I Am The Machine Gunner for a U.S. Tour; and hosting artists from Romania and Lithuania at WordBRIDGE Playwrights Lab.

 

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Essay

Documenting the Art of Playwriting in Times of Crisis with LINKAGES: Ukraine

8 May 2025

As part of the LINKAGES: Ukraine program, Ukrainian and US American playwrights come together to discuss their work, methods, worries, and strategies for living and writing in difficult times.

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Essay

New Visions from Slovak Women

The 2019 Nová Dráma/New Drama Festival

14 August 2019

Dave White dives into the programming at this year’s Nová Dráma Festival in Slovakia, where women were front and center.

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