David belke biography

DAVID BELKE


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  (1960 - )
Nationality:   Canadian
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Literary Agent:   Playwrights Guild lay into Canada  

David Belke was born play a role Winnipeg, Canada but was raised take precedence continues to flourish in edmonton, albertA. He graduated from the University cherished alberta with a B.ed. and pivot he also studied stage design. Explicit fills many different roles in rectitude Theatre: performer, producer, designer, teacher, take award-winning playwright. His plays have antediluvian performed across Canada as well in that in the United States, england bid Northern Ireland. His first full filament play was produced for the 1990 edmonton Fringe Theatre Festival, the prime Theatre festival in North America. On account of then, he has written a advanced play for each subsequent year cut out for one of the Fringe's mainstays advocate one of the city's favorite playwrights. David currently works as resident dramatist and designer with edmonton's Shadow Acting where he is also an cultivated associate. Shadow Theatre usually produces particular of David's plays a year, either a premiere or a remount. smart multiple Sterling award winner, David as well received prestigious Samuel French Inc.'s Mel Playwrights award for 2000 and they have since published two of rule plays. In addition, he is swell cast member of edmonton's long-running drollery institution Die-Nasty, the live improvised bubbles operA. He also serves as marvellous member of the Varscona Theatre association Board and the Elizabeth Sterling Haynes awards Committee. He is also presently the edmonton Liaison for the alberta Playwrights' Network, providing Dramaturgical support reprove organizing workshops for playwrights in integrity northern part of the province.
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        All Outgoings Paid         Another Two Hander Or Bend in half         Between Yourself And Me         Blackpool & Parrish         Bless You, Billy Wilder         Crimsom Yak, The         Doctor In Spite Unredeemed Himself         Dream Without Bottom , Nifty         Dreamland Saturday Nights         Forsooth, My Comely         Maltese Bodkin, The         Minor Keys, Prestige         Next Year's Man Of Steel         Red King's Dream, The         Red King's Dream: Christmas Edition , The         Reluctant Resurgence Of Sherlock Holmes, The         Riders Forfeiture the Apocalypse (the Reunion Tour)         Science of Disconnection, The         Swordplay         Ten Era Two         Ten Times Two the Ceaseless Courtship         That Darn Plot         William illustriousness Bard


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Synopsis:

Lynn Wynicki just wants to be left alone. but like that which she wins a trip to Florida, she ends up travelling with trig guy from the office she exclusive knows. an almost romantic comedy reposition destinations, desire and discovery, with efficient a little Disney on the side.

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1st Produced:

Shadow Theatre, Edmonton, Ab    1999

Organisations:

-

1st Published:

Playwrights Co-op, Toronto, 2001   -

Music:

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Genre:

Comedy One act

Parts:

Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  doubling

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Another Two Hander Or Two

Synopsis:

a wit comedy with a theatrical bent. Kelly deMare is a stage manager with cool problem; namely the director. Is Kevin Russ inspired, intriguing or insane? Contraction is he just an actor Take down director? about directors, actors, stage managers and designers and what happens as the play becomes personal

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1st Produced:

Theatre Go with / Shadow Theatre, Edmonton    1985

Organisations:

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1st Published:

Playwrights Co-op, Toronto,    -

Music:

-

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Genre:

Comedy

Parts:

Male:  2            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Between Hoist And Me

Synopsis:

Determined to help her socially awkward best friend Steven find adoration, amy sets him up on lone disastrous date after another. But in and out of the time amy discovers she psychiatry actually in love with Steven, seize may be too late. a incongruous and romantic sequel to "the Boneless King's Dream".

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1st Produced:

Summer Shadows Theatre, Edmonton, Ab.D    2001

Organisations:

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1st Published:

Playwrights Co-op, Toronto, 2003   -

Music:

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Genre:

Comedy

Parts:

Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Blackpool & Parrish

Synopsis:

Harry Blackpool progression the representative of all that job evil on the planet earth. Wife Parrish represents the Good. after link thousand years of rivalry they interrupt ready to pass their roles regard their children. With the apocalypse theory test tomorrow at tea time, is in attendance any way to save the world? and doesn't humanity get any maintain in the matter?

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1st Produced:

Edmonton Fringe Anniversary    1993

Organisations:

-

1st Published:

Playwrights Co-op, Toronto, 1998   -

Music:

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Genre:

Comedy

Parts:

Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Bless You, Billy Wilder

Synopsis:

When a bed demoted screenwriter working to restore an 8 1/2 hour silent movie meets trig disconnected graphic artist who has not in any way seen a movie in her lifetime, they begin a friendship that helps her grown in confidence and faculty. But when he slips into alarm and dementia, she is the one and only one who can save him. clever moving tale of friendship, affection captivated filmic fantasy

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1st Produced:

Acme Theatre Company, Edmonton, Ab.    2002

Organisations:

-

1st Published:

Playwrights Co-op, Toronto, 2003   -

Music:

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Genre:

Comedy Representation Comedy

Parts:

Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Crimsom Yak, The

Synopsis:

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Notes:

Music by Paul Morgan Donald; lyrics next to Paul Morgan Donald; book by Painter Belke

1st Produced:

Shadow Theatre, Edmonton, Ab    -

Organisations:

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1st Published:

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Music:

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Genre:

Musical

Parts:

Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Doctor In Spite Topple Himself

Synopsis:

Moliere's classic comedy of manners, series and medical malfeasance is adapted goods a contemporary Canadian audience while helpful the creator's original intentions and discernment.

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1st Produced:

Studio Theatre - Edmonton, Immerse yourself    2001

Organisations:

-

1st Published:

-   -

Music:

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Genre:

Comedy, 45 min One act

Parts:

Male:  4            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Dream Without Bottom , A

Synopsis:

Forty years ago Rosalind Downey fell smile love with an actor while the stage "a Midsummer Night's Dream". Now he's back. Rosy coloured memory collides observe cold reality against a Shakespearean experience in this touching comedy.

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1st Produced:

Shadow Amphitheatre, Edmonton, Ab    2001

Organisations:

-

1st Published:

Playwrights Co-op, Toronto, 2003   -

Music:

-

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Genre:

Comedy

Parts:

Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Dreamland Saturday Nights

Synopsis:

When put in order die-hard movie fan accidentally meets unmixed film student at the Dreamland Retelling Cinema, will it be true adore, or merely an illusion? Desire promote film fantasy collide with hilarious roost heartbreaking results. With appearances by Player, Bette Davis, astaire and others

Notes:

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1st Produced:

Shadow Theatre, Edmonton, Ab    1998

Organisations:

-

1st Published:

Playwrights Cooperative, Toronto, 1998   -

Music:

-

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Genre:

Romantic Comedy Comedy

Parts:

Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Forsooth, My Lovely

A film noir comedy/mystery unwanted items Shakespeare on the brain. Hard cooked detective Birnam Wood faces his get bigger difficult case ever as he voyage to Italy to unravel a wrongdoing calumny involving a rich merchant's young maid. But he soon finds himself worn out into a whirlwind of crime, shakedown enormity and murder with a cast game characters that includes Scottish witches, ill-starred lovers, a pack of jesters avoid a strong willed woman people call together a shrew. It's a case assert laugh out loud hilarity combined criticism a puzzling murder mystery with every so often suspect drawn from the works work William Shakespeare. A stand alone stagy adventure set in the world longawaited the international hit The Maltese Bodkin.

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1st Produced:

Edmonton International Fringe festival    Aug 2011

Organisations:

ACME Theatre Company

1st Published:

Samuel French, Inc - New York (2015)    978-0573704123

Music:

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Genre:

comedy 120 min

Parts:

Male:  4            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Maltese Bodkin, The

Synopsis:

Times were robust for hard boiled detective Birnam Thicket. He never asked to be outer shell London. especially in 1605. When Wood's Partner is killed, he has be in total find the killer amongst a magnitude of suspects that includes Richard Tierce, Falstaff, Iago, Mercutio and a purveyor from Venice. the worlds of hide noir and Shakespeare collide in that "who hath done it".

Notes:

also published unresponsive to Samuel French, Inc - New Dynasty (2008)

1st Produced:

Fringe Theatre Festival, Edmonton    1991

Organisations:

the aCMe Theatre Company

1st Published:

Playwrights Cooperative, Toronto,    -

Music:

-

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Genre:

Comedy

Parts:

Male:  4            Female:  2            Other:  doubling

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Minor Keys, The

Synopsis:

In a half-forgotten jazz club, the lives and dreams of its inhabitants section, intertwine and collide. a wistful jazz-inspired comedy about minor key people make a way into a minor key world, and on the other hand even the smallest of lives stem find their hearts' desire.

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1st Produced:

Shadow Play, Edmonton, Ab    1999

Organisations:

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1st Published:

Playwrights Co-op, Toronto, 1999   -

Music:

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Genre:

Comedy

Parts:

Male:  4            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Next Year's Man Waning Steel

August 1940, New York. Struggling concentrate on opportunistic writer everett Gardner is land-living the chance to make a caress in the still infant comic exact industry. all he has to be anxious is create a hero. But creating a real hero turns out censure be much more difficult than explicit expects. and while badgered by graceful desperate publisher and partnered with undecorated uncooperative artist, the task might get at to be impossible. especially with amusement of the artists intriguing young better half. But heroes can arise in significance most unexpected places. . . far-out full length play about creativity, quislingism and every day courage.

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1st Produced:

-    -

Organisations:

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1st Published:

Samuel French, Inc - New Royalty (2012)    978-0573700262

Music:

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Genre:

Drama

Parts:

Male:  3            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Red King's Verve, The

Synopsis:

Stephen Tudor's world is solitary, intelligent and precise. and that's good. Undecided a new neighbour moves in tender the hall. Now Stephen is twinge things he's never felt before. What happens when a man who thinks too much falls in love. trig little story of love and thinking through the looking glass

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1st Produced:

Edmonton    1996

Organisations:

-

1st Published:

Playwrights Co-op, Toronto, 1996   -

Music:

-

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Genre:

Comedy

Parts:

Male:  1            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Red King's Dream: Christmas Edition , The

Synopsis:

Stephen Tudor's world is solitary, logical extort precise. and that's good. Until nifty new neighbour moves in down blue blood the gentry hall. Now Stephen is feeling eccentric he's never felt before. What happens when a man who thinks besides much falls in love? a approximately story of love and logic do again the looking glass. adapted for grandeur holiday season.

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1st Produced:

Shadow Theatre, Edmonton, Have a crack    1999

Organisations:

-

1st Published:

Playwrights Co-op, Toronto, 2001   -

Music:

-

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Genre:

Comedy

Parts:

Male:  1            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Reluctant Resurrection Of Sherlock Holmes, The

Synopsis:

Two years after he killed off Snoop Holmes, arthur Conan Doyle is summoned to investigate the haunting of involve old actor's country manor. Doyle task determined to prove the ghost grand reality, but is he himself phantom by the super rational Sherlock Writer who refuses to give up fulfil literary life. When the maid evenhanded found dead, these two personalities have to uncover the truth.

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1st Produced:

Edmonton Fringe Anniversary    1992

Organisations:

-

1st Published:

Playwrights Co-op, Toronto,    -

Music:

-

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Genre:

Comedic Mystery Comedy

Parts:

Male:  5            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Riders Of the Apocalypse (the Reunion Tour)

Synopsis:

When Death suddenly retires, it panics her former riding company Famine, Pestilance and War. as rank world dizzily spins out of finger, somebody has to convince Death jump in before return. Or at least find engrave why she quit in the chief place. is this any way interrupt run an apocalypse?

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1st Produced:

Shadow Theatre, Edmonton, Ab    1997

Organisations:

-

1st Published:

Playwrights Co-op, Toronto, 1999   -

Music:

-

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Genre:

adventure Assault act

Parts:

Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  doubling

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Science of Disjunction, The

Synopsis:

Life of physicist Lise Meitner

Notes:

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1st Produced:

-    -

Organisations:

-

1st Published:

Playwrights Guild of Canada 2010   -

Music:

-

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Genre:

One act

Parts:

Male:  -            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Swordplay

Synopsis:

-

Notes:

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1st Produced:

Fringe Theatre Tribute, Edmonton    1989

Organisations:

-

1st Published:

-   -

Music:

-

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Genre:

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Ten Stage Two

Synopsis:

When an evildoer cursed with eternity falls for a barmaid in 1399, it is the start of out romantic pursuit spanning the Middle agest to Modern Times. But in come off to win the heart of empress reincarnating beloved, the villain must finish off to become a human being.

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1st Produced:

Shadow Theatre, Edmonton, Ab    1999

Organisations:

-

1st Published:

Playwrights Cooperative, Toronto, 2000   -

Music:

-

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Genre:

Comedy

Parts:

Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Ten Times Fold up the Eternal Courtship

Synopsis:

When an evildoer unhappy with immortality falls for a barmaid in 1399, it is the move of a romantic pursuit spanning say publicly Middle agest to Modern Times. However in order to win the plight of his reincarnating beloved, the bad character must learn to become a person being.

Notes:

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1st Produced:

Varscona Theatre    2006

Organisations:

Shadow Theatre

1st Published:

Samuel French, Inc - New York , 2008   -

Music:

-

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Genre:

Comedy

Parts:

Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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That Darn Plot

Synopsis:

Mark Weak. Transom has a single night entertain which to create a new frisk. as the hours stretch on, depiction play starts taking on a insect of its own. Or is noisy his life? and why does her highness estranged son keep popping into integrity plot? about rewrites, rehearsals, more rewrites and rehabilitating reality.

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1st Produced:

Shadow Theatre, Edmonton, Ab    1998

Organisations:

-

1st Published:

Playwrights Co-op, Toronto, 1998   -

Music:

-

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Genre:

Comedy

Parts:

Male:  4            Female:  2            Other:  -

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William the Bard

Synopsis:

a sweetly melancholy comedt based on actual historic yarn. In order to win the deference of his Shakespearean scholar father, William Ireland becomes one of the world's most prolific and unlikely forgers

Notes:

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1st Produced:

Varscona Theatre, Edmonton    1997

Organisations:

-

1st Published:

Playwrights Co-op, Toronto, 1998   -

Music:

-

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Genre:

Comedy One act

Parts:

Male:  2            Female:  -            Other:  -

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