About me
In addition, he has won Fresh Fruit Awards of Distinction for Outstanding Play (The Fierce Urgency Of Now) and Outstanding Production (Fierce… and Phillie’s Trilogy) as well as the Inaugural (and so far only) Scrap Mettle Arts Emerging Playwrights Competition (Phillie's Trilogy.)
Doug currently serves on the board off All Out Arts, and was formerly Artistic Director for Westside Repertory Theater. His work has been seen in New York, Los Angeles, Seattle, New Jersey, Connecticut, and London, and has been developed at the Kennedy Center in Washington DC, at Davenport Theatrical's Writers Workshop, and ESPA/Primary Stages in New York.
A member of the Dramatists Guild, he has had work published by Next Stage Press and Smith & Kraus.
My Plays
Fable
Synopsis:
Who has the right to tell your story? Especially when it's the same story told from the differing memories of two legendary show business siblings? And one sister's version is about to become a big, Broadway musical that is also destined to become legendary? June Havoc was famously antagonistic towards GYPSY, which her sister, the burlesque star Gypsy Rose Lee, referred to as her legacy. And in FABLE, which is itself a fable about the creation of that musical fable, the sisters' loyalty to each other is tested in a mounting battle that takes place in rehearsal rooms, dressing rooms, onstage, backstage, and all in the memory of the aging Ms. Havoc as she faces her imminent death, still battling with fiction and truth in order to keep her own legacy alive.
Number of Characters: 7
Minimum Number of Actors Required: 7
Length (in Pages): 63
Location: Onstage, backstage, in rehearsal rooms, theatre lobbies,and hotel bars, and all in the memory of the 97 year old June Havoc.
Key Words: GYPSY, A Musical Fable, June Havoc, Gypsy Rose Lee, Ethel Merman, Rose Hovick, Jerome Robbins, Arthur Laurents
Has the Play Been Produced? Yes
Are the Rights Available? Yes
Has the Play Been Published? Yes
Award nominations/wins: Semi Finalist, Eugene O'Neill Theatre Conference
Reviews:
“Doug DeVita’s FABLE will wrap you up like a warm blanket, and take you on a journey of truth, and sisterhood, that you soon won’t forget.”
– Broadway World
"As an account of one woman’s obsession with the past, FABLE puts the “me” in “memory play.” As an homage to a work of theatrical genius that was spawned despite (or because of) all the pesky humans involved, it’s a backstage-drama delight."
– The Gabber
