David Greenspan is an award-winning American

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 actor

Actor

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 and playwright

Playwright

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. In 1997 he received an Obie Award

Obie Award

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 for his work in the off-broadway revival of Boys in the Band

The Boys in the Band (play)

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An alumnus of New Dramatists, he has received playwriting fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

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, Jerome Foundation, Joyce Mertz-Gilmore Foundation and Charles Revson Foundation. He received the 1993 McKnight Fellowship from the Playwrights Center, a 2002 CalArts/Alpert Awards in the Arts

Alpert Awards in the Arts

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 and a 2006 Lucille Lortel

Lucille Lortel

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 Foundation Fellowship. He holds a B.A. in Drama from the University of California at Irvine.

Greenspan's latest play, Go Back to Where You Are, receives its World Premiere at Playwrights Horizons

Playwrights Horizons

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 in New York City in Spring 2011, under the direction of Leigh Silverman.

External links

• David Greenspan at the Lucille Lortel off-broadway database
• David Greenspan profile at the New York Times