DAVID STALLINGS serves as the Director for Arts + Culture at the 14th Street Y in Manhattan, curating their Theater season and other cultural experience, and a creative partner at Different Translation. David migrated from the South (Georgia, Texas and New Mexico) to NYC over fifteen years ago and has been working consistently as a playwright, actor, artistic director and producer both in the city and regionally. The author of 12 full length plays and numerous shorts, David's stories have reached audiences across the US as well as internationally.
As a writer, David is influenced by the collision of his Southern roots and progressive politics. His play, The Re-Education of Arizona, deals explicitly with the affect of Arizona's brutal profiling policies and their immediate influence on the local Hispanic communities. As well as bringing an informed Southern voice to theater, David also focuses on marginalized protagonists and relationships within family dynamics--always with a unique blend of poetic dialogue within realism. He has worked with many New York Theater companies, as well as having had his work seen across the country and abroad. In 2019, his play The Baby Monitor moved from NYC to Dublin, Ireland as part of their International Gay Theater festival and went on to play in Belgrade, Serbia in their National Theater as part of their first ever Pride Series.
In 2006, he co-founded Maieutic Theatre Works (later Manhattan Theatre Works) with his play, Folie a Deux: Insanity in Pairs as their inaugural production. Brandon Voss of HX Magazine called the play, “Riveting” and named Stallings as the “playwright and actor to watch”. Other plays include Anaϊs Nin Goes to Hell (1st Prize Winner Boston Theatre Works Unbound Festival 2007, Winner of the Arthur W. Stone New Play Award Louisiana Tech University 2009, Semi Finalist for the Princess Grace Award 2008), Arpeggio (produced Fall ‘07 at the 45th Street Theater, NYC), The Stranger to Kindness (Winner of Planet Connections Playwriting Award Short Form and Best Production of a One Act Play for the 2011 production at The Robert Moss Theater), and The Family Shakespeare (produced Spring 2011 at the June Havoc Theater, NYC). On MTWorks’ 2008 NYC Fringe production of Anaïs Nin Goes to Hell, the Village Voice said, “Thank the gods for David Stallings’ ‘Anaïs Nin Goes to Hell’… a uniquely polished presence at the Fringe”, and The New York Press said, “For a play about women but written by a man, it captured the greater female psyche.” David has a BFA in Theater from the College of Santa Fe, NM.
As a writer, David is influenced by the collision of his Southern roots and progressive politics. His play, The Re-Education of Arizona, deals explicitly with the affect of Arizona's brutal profiling policies and their immediate influence on the local Hispanic communities. As well as bringing an informed Southern voice to theater, David also focuses on marginalized protagonists and relationships within family dynamics--always with a unique blend of poetic dialogue within realism. He has worked with many New York Theater companies, as well as having had his work seen across the country and abroad. In 2019, his play The Baby Monitor moved from NYC to Dublin, Ireland as part of their International Gay Theater festival and went on to play in Belgrade, Serbia in their National Theater as part of their first ever Pride Series.
In 2006, he co-founded Maieutic Theatre Works (later Manhattan Theatre Works) with his play, Folie a Deux: Insanity in Pairs as their inaugural production. Brandon Voss of HX Magazine called the play, “Riveting” and named Stallings as the “playwright and actor to watch”. Other plays include Anaϊs Nin Goes to Hell (1st Prize Winner Boston Theatre Works Unbound Festival 2007, Winner of the Arthur W. Stone New Play Award Louisiana Tech University 2009, Semi Finalist for the Princess Grace Award 2008), Arpeggio (produced Fall ‘07 at the 45th Street Theater, NYC), The Stranger to Kindness (Winner of Planet Connections Playwriting Award Short Form and Best Production of a One Act Play for the 2011 production at The Robert Moss Theater), and The Family Shakespeare (produced Spring 2011 at the June Havoc Theater, NYC). On MTWorks’ 2008 NYC Fringe production of Anaïs Nin Goes to Hell, the Village Voice said, “Thank the gods for David Stallings’ ‘Anaïs Nin Goes to Hell’… a uniquely polished presence at the Fringe”, and The New York Press said, “For a play about women but written by a man, it captured the greater female psyche.” David has a BFA in Theater from the College of Santa Fe, NM.
