David Rose has served on The
Colony's Artistic Advisory Board since 1992, and has directed Colony productions
of Almost, Maine, "Master Harold" ...and the boys, I Have Before Me a Remarkable Document Given to Me by a Young Lady from Rwanda, Billy Bishop Goes to War Sherlock's Last Case, The Drawer Boy, The
Nerd, Fuddy Meers,
the World Premiere of Bea[u]tiful
in the Extreme,Our
Country's Good (West Coast Premier, six Ovation Award nominations,
Drama-Logue Award)
You
Can't Take It With You (Drama-Logue Award), The
Front Page (L.A. Weekly Award-Revival Production of the Year),
The
Living (L.A. Premier), June
Moon, the West Coast premiere of Garson Kanin's Peccadillo
(West Coast Premiere, Drama-Logue Award), and The
Man Who Came to Dinner. He has also directed Colony Bonus productions
of True West, Baby
With the Bathwater, and the one-woman show I
Can Fit My Fist in My Mouth.
Elsewhere in Los Angeles
he has staged productions of Geniuses (Drama-Logue award) and Justin
Tanner’s Big Bear at
Third Stage, The Dining Room at Theatre 40, the L.A. premiere of
Inspecting
Carol for Singular Productions at the Ivy Substation, Geniuses
at Third Stage (Drama-Logue Award), Chased From Paradise and The
Blues are Running at the Lost Studio, and the smash hit (Drama-Logue Award) Road to Nirvana, which enjoyed
a nine month run, also at Third Stage. He also served on the artistic committee
for Showtime's Act One '95 series at the Met Theatre, and staged
two original one-act plays for Ensemble Studio Theatre's
First Look:
L.A. festival at the Lost Studio.
New York: productions at
Equity Library Theatre, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Manhattan Punch Line,
the Pearl Theatre, the Ridiculous Theatre, and LaMama ETC. He also spent
two years as Artistic Director of the New York Comedy Repertory Ensemble.
A founding member of Washington
D.C.'s acclaimed Wooly Mammoth ensemble, he staged several of their original
productions, including The Kramer, Madmen and Specialists, and the
American premiere of Vatzlav, among others.
As an actor, he has appeared
at The Colony in Pastoral, Incident
at Vichy,
Morning's at Seven,
as
Malcolm in Bedroom Farce, Einstein
and the Polar Bear, and The
Clearing.
February, 2008
