DAVID LEFORT NUGENT is a playwright, composer, lyricist and the artistic director of God Machine, a New York City-based company dedicated to staging the unstagable. His plays have been presented and/or developed at Playwrights Horizons, Medicine Show Theatre and Joe’s Pub at the Public Theater (NYC), the Stratford Festival of Canada (Stratford, ON), Theatre Network and Workshop West (Edmonton, AB), the Ottawa Fringe Festival, and the Yale Cabaret (New Haven, CT). His musical Ugo’s Last Dance will be produced at Medicine Show Theatre (NYC) this September, and his new political musical Ghost Songs,

commissioned by New Sounds Theatre and Beth Morrison Projects (NYC) and jointly developed with composers Lee Feldman, Carol Lipnik and Chris Moore, will be workshoped in the city later this fall. Other projects include Open the Dark Door, a new indie-rock musical commissioned by the Stratford Festival of Canada. David has composed music for productions that include The Rover, Light Shinning in Buckinghamshire, Borders of Paradise, The Trestle at Pope Lick Creek, and Scenes From American Life. David has taught playwriting to disable veterans at the National Theatre Workshop of the Handicapped in Crosby, ME, and mentored New Haven youth in playwriting and composition under the auspices of the Dwight Edgewood Project. In 2006 he was the dramaturg and playwright advisor for the Sears Ontario Drama Festival’s Through the Workshop Window Series at the Stratford Festival of Canada. He is the recipient of the John D. and Rose H. Jackson Research Fellowship from the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, the Queen's Golden Jubilee Scholarship from the Government of Alberta, and has received artist grants from the New York State Council on the Arts and the Alberta Foundation for the Arts. David holds an MFA in Playwriting from the Yale School of Drama and a BFA in Acting from the University of Alberta. hello