David L. Meth

Photo © Nuyorican Poets Cafe. Used with permission.
AWARDS, HONORS, FELLOWSHIPS
PUBLICATIONS, SPECIAL PROGRAMS & PROJECTS
2/4/19 Greenwich Hospital Writing Workshop for Cancer Patients, Survivors, Family & Friends
2019 Jan/Feb. Issue of The Dramatist: An Unexpected Sense of Community: a tour of TO THE DEATH OF MY OWN FAMILY
in India
2018 PEN WRITERS IN THE SCHOOL: Norwalk High School, CT: Rockers, Rebels & Revolutionaries
-2019
2018 EVERY DAY IS A GIFT: Surviving Cancer and Making Peace with the Past (see web page)
Triage Cancer Blog Post: Every Day is a Gift: Surviving Cancer and Making Peace with the Past
2013 A HINT OF LIGHT - published in Korea, Dec. 2012 as CHILDREN OF I’TAEWON
2012 PeaceXPeace Blog: A Small Show of Courage (essay)
2012 Gender Beyond Borders: Culture and Human Rights - an excerpt from TO THE DEATH OF MY OWN FAMILY
2011 Commission: Theatre in the Raw: The Lucile Lortel Festival of New Plays at Fairfield University, Fairfield, CT
-2012
2010 San Francisco Theater Festival Advisory Committee Member
2010 A HINT OF LIGHT - a novel published in 2010
2009 Artist Fellowship from Connecticut Commission on Culture and Tourism for Playwriting Workshop
TO THE DEATH OF MY OWN FAMILY at Briggs High School, Norwalk, CT
2008 Peace Writing International Award for 9/12 - a full-length play: OMNI Center for Peace, Justice and Ecology
2000 Finalist: O'Neill National Playwrights Conference for THE BROKEN DOWN VALISE (now ARTY’S POOLROOM)
ADDITIONAL PUBLICATIONS
American Pen, Confrontation, New World Review, Book Love, Cambric Poetry Project One, Hoosier Challenger, Jeopardy, Lake Superior Review, Poet Lore, Valley Views
PRESENTATIONS, STORIES, TALKS & WORKSHOPS
A HINT OF LIGHT (Novel): Speaking Engagement - 11/5/23:Norwalk Pubic Library, Norwalk, CT
EVERY DAY IS A GIFT: Speaking Engagement - 11/5/23: Norwalk Pubic Library, Norwalk, CT
EVERY DAY IS A GIFT: Writing Workshop for Cancer Survivors - Westport/Weston YMCA, Westport, CT - Ongoing
EVERY DAY IS A GIFT: Writing Workshop for Cancer Survivors - Soul Ryeders, Rye, NY
STORYTELLING: Las Vetas Lounge, Fairfield, CT - 2015
FREEING THE HEART: A Reprieve from Cancer, Writing, Relationships and Other Side Effects
CENTER for SURVIVORSHIP, Southport, CT - Oct.12th & 19th, 2013 Writing Workshops
Fairfield Library, Fairfield, CT - May 14, 2013
Norwalk Library, Norwalk, CT - July 23, 2012
CREDITS
Finalist: Stageworks/Hudson's 2005 Play by Play Festival (NY), Claire Donaldson Short Play Festival (SD), Mercy Plays (The Haven, NYC); Honorable Mention: Fred Newman-Mario Frattti Anti-Corruption Play Writing Award/Castillo Theatre (NYC); Honorable Mention: CT Heritage Productions. Work has appeared in front of audiences at Abingdon Theater (NYC), Ensemble Studio Theatre (NYC) – Summer Conference, Theatre Artists Workshop (Westport, CT), Westport Community Theatre (Westport, CT), Ohio Theater (NYC-Theatres Against War), Book Traders Cafe, (New Haven, CT), Herring Run Arts Festival (Middleboro, MA), Theatre One Productions (Lakeville, MA), Puffin Foundation (NJ) and New Jersey Dramatists, 13th Street Rep. (NYC), Augustana College (Sioux Falls, SD), Darien Players (CT), Pan Asian Rep., (NYC), Lone Star Ensemble (LA), Cabaret for Peace & Justice, Hunter College (NYC), PS 122 (NYC-THAW), Heartlande Theatre Company (MI), SLAM!@The Tank (NYC), The Culture Project’s Impact Festival (NYC), Nuyorican Poets Café (NYC), North Park Playwrights Festival (San Diego, CA), Cornelia Street Cafe (NYC), Mo Pitkin’s (NYC), Bowery Poetry Club (NYC), Abrons Arts Center at the Henry Street Settlement (NYC), Boston Theater Marathon (MA), NU Ways/NU Works Festival (U/Nebraska at Omaha, tbd), McLennan College (Waco, TX), Lost Playwrights of Western North Carolina, Co-Op Theater East (NYC), San Francisco Theater Festival, Westport Library (CT), The Barrow Group (NYC), Hybrid Theatre Works (NYC), Theatre in the Raw: The Lucile Lortel Festival of New Plays at Fairfield University, March 2012 (CT), with more to come, schedule not yet updated.
INTERNATIONAL
India: MetroPlus Theatre Festival, Chennai; Ranga Shankara Theater, Bangalore; Adishakti Theater, Pondicherry; and in Mumbai: National Center for Performing Arts, National Gallery of Modern Art, and the Prithvi Theater, and others, dates to be confirmed.
MEMBERSHIPS
The Dramatists Guild, Playwrights Center (MN), PEN, Academy of American Poets, Theatre Without Borders, Arts 4 Human Rights (UK)