David Schechter | Director • Writer • Lyricist • Actor

Plays Written and/or Directed by David Schechter (Partial List):

	Angels In America By Tony Kushner Directed by David Schechter Bard Theater, Rhinebeck, NY The Pulitzer Prize winning play about love, politics, sex, AIDS, death and revelation
	Gimpel The Fool From Isaac Bashevis Singer’s short story Adapted 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.
	From The Diary Of One Not Born From Isaac Bashevis Singer’s short story Adapted 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.
	The Miser By Moliere Directed by David Schechter “Ebulliently directed, the production is a delight.” - The NY Times Pearl Rep, NYC Moliere’s timeless satire about greed and romance.
	Candida By George Bernard Shaw Directed 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.
	Three Sisters By Anton Chekhov Directed by David Schechter Williams Theatre, Williamstown, MA Chekhov’s masterpiece about longing and lives deferred.
	A Midsummer Night's (Wet) Dream By William Shakespeare Adapted 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.
	Alice Without By Nancy Kawalek and David Schechter Based 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.
	Finding North By David Gonzalez Directed 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.
	Our Country's Good By Timberlake Wertenbaker Directed 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.
	Antigone By Sophocles Directed 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.
	Marvin's Room By Scott McPherson Directed by David Schechter Bard Theatre, Rhinebeck, NY A brilliant tragicomedy about illness, dysfunction and love.
	The Actor's Nightmare By Christopher Durang Directed by David Schechter Bard Theatre, Rhinebeck, NY A surreal jaunt into the absurd vicissitudes of an actor’s life.
	Before She Is Even Born By Leah J. Friedman Directed by David Schechter NY premiere production Queen’s Theatre, NYC A mother bonds with her unborn child while haunted by her immigrant past.
	Luna Park By Donald Margulies Directed 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.
	Double Crossed By David Gonzalez Directed 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.
	Marat/Sade By Peter Weiss Directed 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.
	Roots and Branches Intergenerational Theatre Company Ten 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.