actor / director / designer / storyteller
DAVID L. YEN
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the one-act play that goes wrong
(directing)
Left Edge Theatre
11/5/22-11/20/22
3/13/25-3/14/25
5/13/22-5/22/22
the book of will
(henry Condell)
6th Street Playhouse
cyrano
(fight choreography)
Montgomery High School
10/12/23- 10/28/23
Always Running is based on the groundbreaking memoir written by, and adapted for the stage by, Luis J. Rodriguez. A young man escapes his life of gang violence, discrimination, depression, and drug addiction through art, the Chicano Movement, poetry and service. Says Luis J. Rodriguez, "My book was about the transformative power of the arts as well as how the Chicano Movement provided me meaning and knowledge to join with the social justice struggles of the day. It dramatizes how a caring, persistent, and guiding mentor eventually gave me the consciousness and tools to own my life instead of turning it over constantly to drugs, crime, and violence."
3/8/24- 3/30/24
ideation
(directing)
Left Edge Theatre
The most legendary nose in literature gets a makeover with this lively American adaptation of the 1897 French classic. Will Roxane fall for Christian’s dashing looks or Cyrano’s daring poetry? Find out in this timeless tale—full of wordplay and swordplay—that’s been an inspiration to writers and lovers for centuries.
directions
The Cornley Polytechnic Drama Society is about to perform
‘The Murder at Haversham Manor.’ They’ve rehearsed their lines,
their costumes fit, the stage is set, the props are in place –
what can possibly go wrong? As it turns out, just about everything! But as disaster after disaster strikes on stage, the show must go on. The actors will be glad just to make it alive to the final curtain, but this hilarious award-winning farce will have you laughing long after the show is over.
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When a group of corporate consultants gather to brainstorm a project for an
unnamed client, it appears at first to be business as usual. But as the vast
scope of the project and its sinister details are uncovered, it becomes
apparent that the morally questionable problem they are tasked with solving may not be hypothetical – and could even be happening as they speak. Winner of the Will Glickman Award for Best New Play in the Bay Area (2013), Aaron Loeb’s gripping comic thriller “Ideation” is simultaneously hilarious and deeply disturbing.
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Always running
(fight choreography)
Elsie Allen High School
Three years after Shakespeare’s death, the King’s Men are outraged that their friend and mentor’s brilliant plays are being pirated and wretchedly performed. To honor “The Bard,” they become determined to preserve the work and commit to printing it all in one volume before it is lost forever. Friends, family and former rivals band together to overcome the obstacles posed by death, debt, destruction, and an unscrupulous printer. Based on a true story, this play will raise a new curtain on Shakespeare’s works and what it took to preserve his legacy in The First Folio.