BIOGRAPHY
DAVID RODWIN is a Writer/Director/Producer/Actor/Singer/Composer born and raised in Stamford, CT and currently lives in Santa Monica, CA
David has worked in TV for the last few years on JONAS, HawthoRNe and Swingtown.
As a screenwriter,
David’s scripts in include: crackwhorepornstarlove:
a romance for desperate times, Bernstein in Palestein! (a
biopic of maestro Leonard Bernstein focusing on his trip to The Holy
Land during the 1948 War for
Independence), Alice: Descent into Decadence (a modern adaptation of Alice In Wonderland), Release
Technique (A Racy Romantic Comedy) and Spalding
and Me (True tale about getting stuck in a Florida
swamp for a month with Spalding Gray).
David has written and exec. produced the short films Bounty of Joy (dir.
Daedra Kaehler), Strung (dir. Marta Mastferrer) and written
the music and lyrics for the movie musicals Side Effects (dir.
Chris Grant) and Vicious
Cycle (dir. Robert Prior).
As a writer/composer/performer for the stage, David premiered his solo
opera Trippin’ in
New York
at 
La MaMa ETC (2003) after developing it at
Chashama(NY), Sacred Fools (LA), Dixon Place, Roulette, Lilli's (Boston),
ASK Theatre Projects (LA) and
Berkfest. At the Edinburgh Fringe Festival (2002), David premiered the predecessor to Trippin' called Monks
and Sluts and Statesmen (Oh, My!).
David
launched Virtual
Motion, his
one-man “hyper-opera”, at Sacred Fools in LA (1998) 
and
toured it to over 20 theatres from the "HERE"(NY) to
Duke University to NewOp7 (Amsterdam). WARNING!:
eXplicit Material! An “avant
musical” workshopped at the Disney/ASCAP Musical Theatre Workshop
and at Dixon Place (2001).
David composed the score for No God
But Yearning:
A Prayer Cycle which was workshopped at the 
2003
Public
Theatre’s New Works Now!
Festival before premiering at Mabou Mines where he was an artist-in-residence
(2002). David workshopped
his multimedia opera ECSTATIC JOURNEY at
the Aspen Opera
Theatre (1995) and later in New York at American Opera Projects (1997).
He also wrote the
songs to STAR DREK!: A Musical Parody (which
had an 18 month Seattle run before being shut down by Paramount in 1994).
David was also the Founder and Producing Artistic Director of Raw Impressions, Inc. - A non-profit company with divisions in Film (RIPFest) and Music Theatre (RIMT).
RIPFest was a collaborative
event in which 6 short films were made from scratch in 16 days with
over 100 f
ilmmakers
who have never met before. RIPFest has produced 57 short films in
5 years with the best Broadway talent from Broadway
director Lonny Price (A Class Act) to Tonya Pinkins (Tony
Award Actor). CBS News said “RIPFest is remaking the magic
of movie making”. Backstage hailed us “The Best
of The Best” and The NY Press declared we were “A
jewel of New York music theatre”.
Raw Impressions
has also created 172 ten-minute stage musicals (RIMT) with artists
including DJ Javerbaum (Emmy Award-winning head writer for The Daily
Show) and Jeffrey Stock (Broadway composer of Triumph of Love).
In 2004 RIMT became the youngest organization to win the prestigious
Jonathan Larson Foundation Award.
David studied composition with Steve Mackey at Princeton University, where he was also the music director of the a cappella group, The Tigertones. He studied further at Juilliard and Northwestern where he received his masters in music. He spent a month with his mentor Spalding Gray at The Atlantic Center for the Arts in 2002. He practiced clowning at Dell’Arte in Blue Lake, CA and has trained in Suzuki and Viewpoints for many character and muscle building weeks with Anne Bogart and the SITI Company. David held a director’s observership with Liz LeCompte at the Wooster Group in 1993. He also participated in the Lincoln Center Director’s Lab 2001. He has received grants from ASCAP, ASK Theatre Projects, Meet The Composer and the American Music Center.
David as a wee lad of 30