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Winner of the 2008 World AIDS
Day Writing Contest
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And The Winner Is
Fifty Yards and Holding
(Synopsis)
Baby in the Basement
Alameda
"In the Tennessee Williams flavored Threnody, the dialogue sings with poetic flashes." The Sacramento News & Review "No, it's not a new reality TV show. It's the play Better Places To Go...a colorful cast of characters that would make any soap opera proud..." Outword Magazine “Young members of the gay community will especially appreciate Frozen Stars for its honest depiction of a relationship between two young men.” Outlines
"David-Matthew Barnes' award-winning
plays speak with emotional fervor. His characters refuse to be ignored,
driving at the heart of the human condition with their intense desire
and longing." “Temporary Heroes is a sweet, simple, life-affirming love story with charm to spare... Believably sensitive and filled with sweetness and youthful optimism...Delightfully energetic...” The Sacramento Bee
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Biography
Brooklyn Publishers
Audition Arsenal for Men in Their 20s Audition Arsenal for Women in Their 20s Audition Arsenal for Women in Their 30s The Best Stage Scenes (1999) The Best Women’s Monologues (1999) The Best Men’s Monologues (1999) The Best Stage Scenes (2000) The Best Women’s Monologues (2000) The Best Men’s Monologues (2000) The Best Women’s Monologues (2002) Cosmic Brownies (Anthology) Men of Mystery: Homoerotic Tales of Intrigue & Suspense (Anthology) Rite of Passage: Tales of Backpacking ‘Round Europe (Anthology) Sins of the Flesh (Chapbook) Small-Town Gay: Essays on Family Life Beyond the Big City (Anthology) Time Intertwined (Anthology) Young Women’s Monologues From Contemporary Plays 2
"Pensacola,
both touching and humorous, explores the lives of Southern women as they
discover their strengths and destinies...think Steel Magnolias by
way of Tennessee Williams, with a detour through the mind of Elmore
Leonard..."
"Pensacola
depicts the lives of Southerners in the tradition of Tennessee
Williams... humorous and witty dialogue...the authentic portrayal of
human nature...the poignant depiction of people reacting to crushed
dreams..."
"Bitingly sardonic and rife with pain,
the poems of David-Matthew Barnes use Hollywood as a symbol for
wickedness, wickedness as a symbol for sex, sex as a symbol for love,
and just about everything as a symbol for longing. The anger in his
poems is both blatant and controlled, fused with a wry humor that
reminds us of the humanity of both the author and his targets." Current Read:
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Johnny Ramirez
Really Wants To Kiss Me
Don't Mention It
Are You All Right
In There?
Saints & Sinners Literary Festival
Southampton Writers Conference
DMB's poem Rapture is featured in the current issue of The Comstock Review. DMB won the 2008 World AIDS Day Writing Contest, earning double awards for his stage play Don't Mention It and his poem You Wonder. DMB's popular 10-minute play Johnny Ramirez Really Wants To Kiss Me received the 2008 award for Best Play at SLAMBoston. DMB received a national award in the 2008 Split This Rock Poetry Contest for his provocative poem Latin Freestyle. DMB will be the moderator for the panel discussion The Disappearing Act: GLBT Theatre in America at the 2008 Saints & Sinners Literary Festival in New Orleans from May 8-11. DMB will also be a featured reader at the festival. DMB's new stage play We Never Made It To Paris was named a national finalist in the 2008 Saints and Sinners Playwriting Contest. Check out the new collection Young Women's Monologues From Contemporary Plays 2 that features a monologue from DMB's stage play Better Places To Go, available in paperback. DMB is graduating from the MFA Creative Writing program at Queens University of Charlotte in North Carolina on May 31. DMB will study playwriting in private workshop with Christopher Durang this summer at the Southampton Writers Conference in New York. Last summer, DMB studied in private workshop with Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize winner Marsha Norman.
Academy
of American Poets
Theresa Davis
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