David Cale

David Cale is an award-winning performance artist, playwright, songwriter, and actor based in New York City. He made his London West End debut as a playwright last year with the sold-out run of his solo play Harry Clarke starring Billy Crudup (Olivier Award nomination for Best Actor). Harry Clarke premiered in NYC at the Vineyard Theatre, transferring to the Minetta Lane Theatre as Audible’s first theatre production (Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Solo Show), and subsequently enjoyed a record-breaking run at Berkeley Rep. His follow up solo play Sandra, with music by Matthew Dean Marsh, and starring Marjan Neshat, also premiered at the Vineyard Theatre.

David is the writer and performer of 10 solo works, most recently his solo musical memoir, We’re Only Alive for A Short Amount of Time at The Public Theater and The Goodman Theatre, Chicago, for which he wrote the book, lyrics and co-composed the music with Matthew Dean Marsh (Obie Award, Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Solo Performance, Drama Desk Award nomination for Outstanding Solo Performance, and for which David and Matthew received a Lucille Lortel Award nomination for Outstanding Solo Show and Chicago’s Jeff Award for New Musical). Other solo works include The History of Kisses, Palomino, A Likely Story, Lillian (Obie Award), and Deep in a Dream of You (Bessie Award). He previously collaborated with Dael Orlandersmith on The Blue Album and with Dael and Matthew on You Don’t Know the Lonely One. As an actor, his film credits include Mona Fastvold’s upcoming musical, Ann Lee.