DAVID BUNCE

ACTOR/ DIRECTOR/ WRITER/ FIGHT CHOREOGRAPHER

Eileen Schuyler as Betty and me as Dan in Christian O’Reilly’s wonderful Chapatti

Writer Bio

Play scripts include, Red Maple, winner of the Capital Repertory Theatre 2017 Next Act Play Summit 6 and given world premiere at Cap Rep January-February 2019. A musical adaptation of the Edgar Allan Poe story, The Fall of the House of Usher, given staged reading at New York State Theatre Institute (NYSTI). An adaptation of Charles Dickens’, A Christmas Carol, and the one-man show, Dogs of War; Shakespeare’s Soldiers, produced at the Theatre Institute at Sage (TIS). And the one-act, Lunch, produced at Penn State University and at the Actor’s Attic in Hartford CT. Screenplays include Gasoline and Lightning, commissioned for Edgewood Studios, Rutland Vermont and Incisions and Learning to Fly. Writer and director of the short films The Smell of Existence and Soup’s On. Film director/co-writer for All For The Birds; Pete Dubacher and the Berkshire Bird Paradise. Member of Dramatists Guild.

Red Maple

Well, we’ve run our course and closed. We ran to full houses, rave reviews and wonderful feedback. By the third week you couldn’t get a ticket if you wanted. We’ll see what happens next. I’ve been approached by a few theaters asking for a perusal copy of the script. I’m reaching out to others. I’ll keep you all updated. Thank you Maggie Cahill, Margaret Hall, everyone at Proctors and Cap Rep and our amazing cast and crew!

Check out the Red Maple website at redmapletheplay.com

Everyone wants to know, “What’s the matter with Robert?” Since becoming an empty-nester, the usually solid and dependable professor seems to be falling apart — just like the old red maple tree in the back yard. When friends get together for a cheer-him-up dinner, Robert announces he’s had an epiphany that will rock the world of the stalwart suburban gang around the table. Things get shaken and stirred as the cocktails and confessions flow, building to a hilarious crescendo when an unexpected guest shows up begging another question, “Guess who’s coming to dinner?” Written by Capital Region veteran actor-writer, David Bunce, this uproarious comedy, set in the suburbs of Albany, was the runaway hit of the 2016 NEXT ACT! New Play Summit. Our cast From left to right, starting at the top as ordered in the smiling group photo: James Lloyd Reynolds as Robert Morton, PHD, Elizabeth Meadows Rouse as Stephanie Morton, Oliver Wadsworth as John Hartley, Yvonne Perry as Karen Hartley, Julia Knitel as Theresa

Everyone wants to know, “What’s the matter with Robert?” Since becoming an empty-nester, the usually solid and dependable professor seems to be falling apart — just like the old red maple tree in the back yard. When friends get together for a cheer-him-up dinner, Robert announces he’s had an epiphany that will rock the world of the stalwart suburban gang around the table. Things get shaken and stirred as the cocktails and confessions flow, building to a hilarious crescendo when an unexpected guest shows up begging another question, “Guess who’s coming to dinner?” Written by Capital Region veteran actor-writer, David Bunce, this uproarious comedy, set in the suburbs of Albany, was the runaway hit of the 2016 NEXT ACT! New Play Summit. Our cast From left to right, starting at the top as ordered in the smiling group photo: James Lloyd Reynolds as Robert Morton, PHD, Elizabeth Meadows Rouse as Stephanie Morton, Oliver Wadsworth as John Hartley, Yvonne Perry as Karen Hartley, Julia Knitel as Theresa

Everyone wants to know, “What’s the matter with Robert?” Since becoming an empty-nester, the usually solid and dependable professor seems to be falling apart — just like the old red maple tree in the back yard. When friends get together for a cheer-him-up dinner, Robert announces he’s had an epiphany that will rock the world of the stalwart suburban gang around the table. Things get shaken and stirred as the cocktails and confessions flow, building to a hilarious crescendo when an unexpected guest shows up begging another question, “Guess who’s coming to dinner?” Written by Capital Region veteran actor-writer, David Bunce, this uproarious comedy, set in the suburbs of Albany, was the runaway hit of the 2016 NEXT ACT! New Play Summit. Our cast From left to right, starting at the top as ordered in the smiling group photo: James Lloyd Reynolds as Robert Morton, PHD, Elizabeth Meadows Rouse as Stephanie Morton, Oliver Wadsworth as John Hartley, Yvonne Perry as Karen Hartley, Julia Knitel as Theresa

                                 Photos courtesy The Rep, Proctor’s Theatre and Kate Penn

Tribes

Thank you to all who came to see Tribes at The Theatre Institute at Sage (TIS)!

Actor Bio

Acting credits include: London West End; The Snow Queen, Off-Broadway; American Enterprise (St. Clemens), Moscow; Rag Dolly, Peter Pan, Middle East; Aladdin, Curtis in Black Tie for the Adirondack Theatre Festival and George in the critically acclaimed Theatre Institute at Sage’s (TIS) production of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf. Others include Death of a Salesman,  Of Mice and Men and The Elephant Man. Film work includes Aftermath with Anthony Michael Hall, Cold, I Am: Battle of the Bark Eater for West Field Films, Arachnia for Edgewood Studios and the web series Super Knocked Up. 

The Giver

Thank you to all for a wonderful run of The Giver by Lois Lowry at Theatre Institute at Sage. Pictured are Joe Quandt as the Giver and Cullen Sausville as Jonas. Directed by D Bunce

Director Bio

Stage productions include Last of the Mohicans Outdoor Drama in Lake George and Lord of the Flies, A Christmas Carol, Radiance: The Passion of Marie Curie, Number the Stars and The Giver for TIS. Writer and director of the short films The Smell of Existence and Soup’s On. Film director/co-writer for All For The Birds; Pete Dubacher and the Berkshire Bird Paradise and director of the film Breakfast of Champions.