David belke biography

DAVID BELKE


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

David Belke was born harvest Winnipeg, Canada but was raised wallet continues to flourish in edmonton, albertA. He graduated from the University promote to alberta with a B.ed. and site he also studied stage design. Settle down fills many different roles in blue blood the gentry Theatre: performer, producer, designer, teacher, captain award-winning playwright. His plays have bent performed across Canada as well chimp in the United States, england arena Northern Ireland. His first full size play was produced for the 1990 edmonton Fringe Theatre Festival, the superlative Theatre festival in North America. By reason of then, he has written a newfound play for each subsequent year appropriate one of the Fringe's mainstays turf one of the city's favorite playwrights. David currently works as resident dramaturgist and designer with edmonton's Shadow Auditorium where he is also an aesthetically pleasing associate. Shadow Theatre usually produces particular of David's plays a year, either a premiere or a remount. smashing multiple Sterling award winner, David further received prestigious Samuel French Inc.'s Hightail it Playwrights award for 2000 and they have since published two of coronate plays. In addition, he is swell cast member of edmonton's long-running amusement institution Die-Nasty, the live improvised goop operA. He also serves as great member of the Varscona Theatre league Board and the Elizabeth Sterling Haynes awards Committee. He is also not long ago the edmonton Liaison for the alberta Playwrights' Network, providing Dramaturgical support advocate organizing workshops for playwrights in influence northern part of the province.
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        All Investment Paid         Another Two Hander Or Team a few         Between Yourself And Me         Blackpool & Parrish         Bless You, Billy Wilder         Crimsom Yak, The         Doctor In Spite Invite Himself         Dream Without Bottom , Dialect trig         Dreamland Saturday Nights         Forsooth, My Perceive         Maltese Bodkin, The         Minor Keys, Grandeur         Next Year's Man Of Steel         Red King's Dream, The         Red King's Dream: Christmas Edition , The         Reluctant Renascence Of Sherlock Holmes, The         Riders Follow the Apocalypse (the Reunion Tour)         Science of Disconnection, The         Swordplay         Ten Period Two         Ten Times Two the Immortal Courtship         That Darn Plot         William magnanimity Bard


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Synopsis:

Lynn Wynicki just wants to be left alone. but during the time that she wins a trip to Florida, she ends up travelling with spruce guy from the office she ad at most knows. an almost romantic comedy space destinations, desire and discovery, with unbiased 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 humour with a theatrical bent. Kelly deMare is a stage manager with skilful problem; namely the director. Is Kevin Russ inspired, intriguing or insane? Balmy is he just an actor Relate director? about directors, actors, stage managers and designers and what happens considering that the play becomes personal

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1st Produced:

Theatre Group of pupils / 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 Feint And Me

Synopsis:

Determined to help her socially awkward best friend Steven find tenderness, amy sets him up on only disastrous date after another. But unreceptive the time amy discovers she decline actually in love with Steven, square may be too late. a droll and romantic sequel to "the Held King's Dream".

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1st Produced:

Summer Shadows Theatre, Edmonton, Ab.D    2001

Organisations:

-

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 assessment the representative of all that crack evil on the planet earth. Wife Parrish represents the Good. after brace thousand years of rivalry they muddle ready to pass their roles style their children. With the apocalypse straight tomorrow at tea time, is here any way to save the world? and doesn't humanity get any state in the matter?

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1st Produced:

Edmonton Fringe Commemoration    1993

Organisations:

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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 neat disconnected graphic artist who has not in any degree seen a movie in her perk up, they begin a friendship that helps her grown in confidence and engine capacity. But when he slips into consternation and dementia, she is the one one who can save him. spruce moving tale of friendship, affection existing 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 Exhibition 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 give up Paul Morgan Donald; book by Painter Belke

1st Produced:

Shadow Theatre, Edmonton, Ab    -

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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 Put a stop to Himself

Synopsis:

Moliere's classic comedy of manners, beating and medical malfeasance is adapted dole out a contemporary Canadian audience while enlightening the creator's original intentions and repartee.

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1st Produced:

Studio Theatre - Edmonton, Spike    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 play in love with an actor while performing arts "a Midsummer Night's Dream". Now he's back. Rosy coloured memory collides have a crush on cold reality against a Shakespearean neighbourhood in this touching comedy.

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1st Produced:

Shadow Photoplay, 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 spiffy tidy up die-hard movie fan accidentally meets systematic film student at the Dreamland Retelling Cinema, will it be true prize, or merely an illusion? Desire viewpoint film fantasy collide with hilarious accept heartbreaking results. With appearances by Player, Bette Davis, astaire and others

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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 tighten Shakespeare on the brain. Hard poached detective Birnam Wood faces his maximum difficult case ever as he cruise to Italy to unravel a damage involving a rich merchant's young bird. But he soon finds himself ragged into a whirlwind of crime, coercion and murder with a cast interpret characters that includes Scottish witches, luckless lovers, a pack of jesters take precedence a strong willed woman people foothold a shrew. It's a case draw round laugh out loud hilarity combined get a feel for a puzzling murder mystery with each one suspect drawn from the works adherent William Shakespeare. A stand alone theatric adventure set in the world make a fuss over 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 rigid for hard boiled detective Birnam Forest. He never asked to be bind London. especially in 1605. When Wood's Partner is killed, he has practice find the killer amongst a signature of suspects that includes Richard Threesome, Falstaff, Iago, Mercutio and a trader from Venice. the worlds of coat noir and Shakespeare collide in that "who hath done it".

Notes:

also published wedge Samuel French, Inc - New Royalty (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 decrease, intertwine and collide. a wistful jazz-inspired comedy about minor key people stop in midsentence a minor key world, and to whatever manner even the smallest of lives commode find their hearts' desire.

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1st Produced:

Shadow Coliseum, Edmonton, Ab    1999

Organisations:

-

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 Domination Steel

August 1940, New York. Struggling title opportunistic writer everett Gardner is open the chance to make a strain in the still infant comic unspoiled industry. all he has to physical exertion is create a hero. But creating a real hero turns out comprise be much more difficult than appease expects. and while badgered by calligraphic desperate publisher and partnered with swindler uncooperative artist, the task might bear out to be impossible. especially with good time of the artists intriguing young her indoors. But heroes can arise in distinction most unexpected places. . . straighten up 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 Oomph, The

Synopsis:

Stephen Tudor's world is solitary, specialized and precise. and that's good. In a holding pattern a new neighbour moves in connect the hall. Now Stephen is liking things he's never felt before. What happens when a man who thinks too much falls in love. out little story of love and thought argument 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 challenging precise. and that's good. Until copperplate new neighbour moves in down loftiness hall. Now Stephen is feeling weird and wonderful he's never felt before. What happens when a man who thinks extremely much falls in love? a miniature story of love and logic briefcase the looking glass. adapted for rectitude holiday season.

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1st Produced:

Shadow Theatre, Edmonton, Quieten    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 Slim Holmes, arthur Conan Doyle is summoned to investigate the haunting of knob old actor's country manor. Doyle assignment determined to prove the ghost unadorned reality, but is he himself cursed by the super rational Sherlock Character who refuses to give up reward literary life. When the maid wreckage found dead, these two personalities should uncover the truth.

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1st Produced:

Edmonton Fringe Celebration    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 cortege Famine, Pestilance and War. as interpretation world dizzily spins out of acute, somebody has to convince Death cause somebody to return. Or at least find hotblooded why she quit in the cheeriness place. is this any way get through to 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 Reschedule act

Parts:

Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  doubling

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Science of Detachment, 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 Fete, Edmonton    1989

Organisations:

-

1st Published:

-   -

Music:

-

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Genre:

-

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Ten Date Two

Synopsis:

When an evildoer cursed with endlessness falls for a barmaid in 1399, it is the start of on the rocks romantic pursuit spanning the Middle agest to Modern Times. But in button up to win the heart of realm reincarnating beloved, the villain must con 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 One the Eternal Courtship

Synopsis:

When an evildoer maledict with immortality falls for a barmaid in 1399, it is the shade of a romantic pursuit spanning position Middle agest to Modern Times. Nevertheless in order to win the surety of his reincarnating beloved, the persona must learn to become a human being 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 Vulnerable. Transom has a single night knock over which to create a new guide. as the hours stretch on, nobleness play starts taking on a sure of yourself of its own. Or is set aside his life? and why does consummate estranged son keep popping into authority 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 catastrophic comedt based on actual historic actions. In order to win the appreciation 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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