- David Cale is an award-winning performance artist, playwright, songwriter and actor based in New York City. His solo play "Harry Clarke", starring Billy Crudup, premiered at the Vineyard Theatre and transferred to Audible at Minetta Lane Theatre where it won the Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Solo Show. It then ran at Berkeley Rep, before transferring to London's West End for a nine-week, sold out run at the Ambassadors Theatre. His follow-up solo play, "Sandra", also premiered at the Vineyard Theatre. His works as both writer and performer include "We're Only Alive for A Short Amount of Time", 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, Lucille Lortel Award nomination for Outstanding Solo Show, Drama Desk Award nomination for Outstanding Solo Performance, with Cale and Marsh receiving the Jeff Award for New Musical); "The History of Kisses"; "Palomino"; "A Likely Story"; "Lillian" (Obie Award); "Deep in a Dream of You" (Bessie Award). He wrote the book, lyrics, co-composed the music for and starred in the musical "Floyd and Clea Under the Western Sky" (Outer Critics Circle Award nomination), inspired by his experience portraying Floyd Duffner in Alex and Andrew Smith's film, "The Slaughter Rule". His songwriting credits include composing the songs for 600 Highwaymen's "Employee of the Year" (Bessie Award nomination).- IMDb Mini Biography By: David Cale
- He was nominated for a 1991 Joseph Jefferson Award for New Work for "Deep in a Dream of You" at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago, Illinois.
- He was nominated for a 2007 Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Off-Broadway Musical for "Floyd and Clea Under the Western Sky" for which he wrote the book, lyrics, co-composed the music and played Floyd.
- He was awarded the 1988 Drama Logue Award for Outstanding Writing and Performance for "The Redthroats," at the Mark Taper Too Forum Theatre in Los Angeles, California.
- He was awarded the 2019 Equity Joseph Jefferson (The Libby Adler Mages) Award for New Work (Musical) for "We're Only Alive for A Short Amount of Time" at the Goodman Theatre in association with the Public Theater in Chicago, Illinois.
- He was nominated for a 2019 Equity Joseph Jefferson Award for Solo Performance for "We're Only Alive for a Short Amount of Time" at the Goodman Theatre in association with the Public Theater in Chicago, Illinois.
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