David's play The Baby Monitor has opened in NYC and the reviewers are loving it!

"Holiday gifts came early to the East Village this year: we were treated to a 5-star performance of Different Translation's The Baby Monitor at The Theater at The 14th Street Y."

"Although billed as a “workshop” of the play, the production is over-qualified to be called such."

--OPPLAUD

"David Stallings’ poignant, highly original new piece"

"If the first scene in The Baby Monitor was rife with with sitcom-style humor and casual references to politics, culture, and sexuality, the play shifts gears in the second half when one of the characters tells another “You’ll be getting a call from social services.”  The Baby Monitor then becomes an emotional charged, searing adult drama– and there’s no turning back."

"The stories of gay parents– and, specifically, the challenges those parents face– have occasionally been delved into via several venues of pop culture through the years: in movies, on TV, and in the theater.  It is unlikely, however, that this subject matter has been explored in a more emotionally complete way as it’s explored in The Baby Monitor.  Even in an era with an explosion of visibility for LGBTQ people in the media, few of those portraits have gone beyond “skin deep”. The Baby Monitoris unafraid to navigate into previously uncharted territory, particularly when it comes to tackling the issue of the deeply ingrained prejudices still faced by LGBTQ people– even as we enter 2019, even in “progressive” cities like the play’s setting of Boston, and even when it comes from people who call themselves our allies.  Just as Stallings’ drama boldly taps into the feelings of its well-written, multi-faceted characters, it challenges the audience to do the same. Mirroring real life, it turns out that the conflicts between the adults in The Baby Monitor are more complicated than just “gay versus straight”.  Other themes are skillfully and meaningfully woven into Stallings’ story, including issues of economic divide, ethnicity, immigration status, white male privilege, and more."
--Late Night Lavender
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Image: Amanda Jones as Claire, David Stallings as Damn and Hector Matias as Phillip
Photo: Michael Dekker

Different Translation's production of The Baby Monitor, directed by Antonio Miniño is now playing at The Theater at the 14th Street Y through December 16th

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Image: David Stallings as Damon and Hector Matias as Phillip
Photo: Michael Dekker
WINNER
2017 Playwrights for a Cause: Selected to be part of an evening of protest plays
​with other scripts by Catherine Filloux, Lyle Kessler, Jose Rivera and ReGina Taylor

2014 New York IT Award for Best Full Length Script
Dark Water

Outstanding Playwriting One-Act 
Planet Connections Theatre Festivity
The Stranger to Kindness

Outstanding Lead Actor in a play
Planet Connections Theatre Festivity
Farewell to Sanity and Other Irrational Constructs by Tom Slot

1st Prize Boston Theatre Works UnBound Festival
Anaïs Nin Goes To Hell

2nd Biennial Arthur W. Stone New Play Award
Anaïs Nin Goes To Hell

2010 Activist Award
Planet Connections Theatre Festivity

FINALIST
2014 National New Play Network (NNPN)
The Baby Monitor


SEMI-FINALIST
Princess Grace Awards
Barrier Island, Anaïs Nin Goes To Hell

NOMINEE
Outstanding Actor in a Play
Thespis Theatre Festival
Somdomite: The Loves of Oscar Wilde by Joshua Pangborn

The 2009 Weissberger Award
(Williamstown Theatre Festival)Barrier Island

SELECTED
FringeNYC 08 Favorite Script by OffOffOff.com
Anaïs Nin Goes To Hell

FEATURED
The Very Best of NYC Theatre by Go Magazine
Anaïs Nin Goes To Hell

SELECTED
NY Daily News Editor's Pick
Barrier Island
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