The Drama Book Shop presents, in association with Jay Michaels Global Communications, “Goddess of the Hunt with Doug DeVita” A talkback, signing, and live podcast recording.
About the Play
Just how well do you know all your "friends" on social media? In this fast-moving "light comedy about dark people leading private lives in public places," when the grieving Charlie Windsor meets the gregarious Diana Black-White in a New York Theater District bar they become instant BFFs. Much to the consternation of his closest friend since childhood, Broadway actor Ed McGrath, Charlie is almost immediately hurled into an overwhelming whirl of dark secrets, questionable loyalties, and highly dysfunctional family dynamics; a world for which Charlie is completely unprepared. Goddess Of The Hunt is a gleefully silly homage to those romantic comedy thrillers of the 1960s via Roman mythology, updated to the creepy, contemporary world of social media and – perhaps too much – information sharing.
About the Author
Doug is a two-time O’Neill Semi-Finalist (Fable and Just A Rumor), Semi-Finalist for Barrington Stage Company's Burman New Play Award (Phillie’s Trilogy), Semi-Finalist for B Street Theatre’s New Comedy Festival (Goddess Of The Hunt), Semi-Finalist for Middlebury Acting Company's American Dreaming Festival (All The King's Horses), and Semi-Finalist for We Screenplay’s Diverse Voices Competition (The Fierce Urgency Of Now).
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.)This past summer, Fable received its world premiere production at freeFall Theatre in St. Petersburg, Florida, and this newly revised version Goddess Of The Hunt will receive its world premiere production at Lab Theater Project in Tampa, Fla., this September after its world premiere workshop at the Fresh Fruit Festival in New York last year, which was nominated for a Broadway World Award as "Best New Off-Off Broadway Play, 2024."
His work has been seen in New York, Los Angeles, Seattle, New Jersey, Florida, Connecticut, and London, and has been developed at the Kennedy Center in Washington DC (before it became "unwoke"), 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.
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