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Westbeth Icon: David Greenspan
actor and playwright

May 4, 2025

Sunday May 4, 2025 at 7pm

Westberth Community Room
155 Bank Streety
(enter through courtyard)
New York, NYT 100124

Westbeth Artists Residents COunceil (WARC) designed the Icons project to honor Westbeth artists who have continued to work in the arts and a are an inspiration to others.

Six-time Obie recipient David Greenspan (The Patsy, Strange Interlude, Four Saints in Three Acts, On Set With Theda Bara), Drama Desk nominee Mona Pirnot (I Love You So Much I Could Die) and two-time Obie recipient Ken Rus Schmoll (Middletown, The Internationalist, Telephone, Map of Virtue).

David Greenspan has appeared in his plays Dead Mother, She Stoops to Comedy, Go Back to Where You Are, I’m Looking for Helen Twelvetrees, The Memory Motel and his solo plays The Argument and The Myopia, performed solo renditions of three American plays from the 1920’s: Barry Conners’ comedy The Patsy, Eugene O’Neill’s six-hour, nine-act drama Strange Interlude, Gertrude Stein’s experimental Four Saints in Three Acts and solo renditions of Stein’s lectures Plays, Composition As Explanation and What Are Masterpieces and acted in many contemporary plays, notably Terrence McNally’s Some Men, Joey Merlo’s solo play On Set With Theda Bara and revivals of Mart Crowley’s The Boys in the Band and Goethe’s Faust. Honors include Guggenheim, Lortel and Fox fellowships, Alpert, Lambda Literary, Helen Merrill Playwriting awards, a RUTHIE and six OBIES.

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