David Taylor Little

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David Taylor Little has worked all over the United States as a director and playwright. He received his MFA in direction from The New School for Drama in New York City where he was an assistant director for the 24-Hour Plays both on and off Broadway, as well the director of a number of off-off Broadway plays and musicals. He has also served as the artistic director for The Theatre Factory in Pittsburgh, PA (his beloved hometown). Recent directing projects include Donizetti’s opera Il Campanello for Blue Lake Opera and Henry VI and Love’s Labor’s Lost for The Pigeon Creek Shakespeare Company based in Grand Haven, MI. He returned to Grand Haven in 2023 to stage The Comedy of Errors for The Pigeon Creek Shakespeare Company.

As a writer, David recently wrote a new book for the 1927 operetta The Desert Song which premiered with the St. Louis Winter Opera in March of 2023. He was invited back in 2024 to premiere a new book for 1910’s Naughty Marietta. His play, Shades of Gay, had a developmental reading at Ball State University in April of 2023. He has had short plays performed in The Short Play Festival with The Players Theatre, Blurring Boundaries with The New Ambassador’s Theatre, and The Winter Fest with The Chain Theatre, all in New York City. His 10-minute play Podunk won best play for its evening at The Players Theatre Summer Short Play Fest and was published in the Smith & Kraus anthology of Best Plays of 2024. David’s plays Christmas Gifts and All Out for Christmas, written for Indiana Public Radio, appeared live on their radio station in 2019 and 2023. Christmas Gifts also appeared live online for The Theatre Factory and Speranza Theatre Company, both in 2020. He was commissioned to write Arlo Whittaker and the Viola Verdict for The Pigeon Creek Shakespeare Company. This play also received a full production at Ball State University as well as developmental readings at The Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp. Additional commissions for Pigeon Creek Shakespeare include new plays in the Arlo Whittaker series: Arlo Whittaker and the Petruchio Problem, produced live online in 2021, and Arlo Whittaker and the Mackers Mistake produced in 2023. His young adult play, The Disappearance of Ezra Clybourne appeared on stage at The Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp professional company in the Summer of 2023 as well as on Blue Lake Public Radio. It is now published and available to license from Next Stage Press. His newest play Holmes is Where the Heart Is: A Kate Delaney Mystery premiered at The Theatre Factory in June of 2025.

As a teaching artist, David has worked as the Young Playwrights Coordinator in the education department of City Theatre Company in Pittsburgh, PA, and at The Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp as a musical theatre instructor. He serves on the directing faculty at Ball State University. While working at Ball State he has directed productions of Green Day’s American Idiot, Dead Man’s Cell Phone, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, and Our Town, and Cabaret.

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