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David West Read is a Canadian television writer, playwright, and producer.[1][2] He is known for writing for the television series Schitt's Creek as well as author of the stage musical & Juliet.[3][4] He has received a Golden Globes and Emmy for his work as a producer and writer on Schitt's Creek.

David West Read
Read in 2022

Early life and education

Read was born in Scarborough, Toronto in 1983.[2] He grew up in Markham and attended the University of Toronto as an undergraduate.[1][2] He graduated from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts in 2010 with a Master's degree in dramatic writing.[2][5]

Career

In 2012, Read's second play The Performers opened on Broadway, marking it as the first time since 1984 that a Canadian playwright opened a show on Broadway that wasn't a musical.[1]

Read wrote & Juliet, a stage musical with the premise that Juliet Capulet of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet survived at the end of the tragedy. The play opened on West End in 2019 and in Toronto in 2022. It will open on Broadway in 2022 and in Melbourne in 2023.[3][6]

Read worked as Executive Producer and writer on Schitt's Creek, and his work was acknowledged with an Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series in 2020.[5][7]

In 2021, Apple TV announced that David West Read would adapt The Big Door Prize, a novel by M.O. Walsh, into a series.[7]

Works

Theatre

• The Dream of the Burning Boy, 2011[2]
• The Performers, 2012[1]
• Afterlove, 2015[8]
• & Juliet, 2019[6]

TV

• Schitt's Creek[5]
• The Big Door Prize[7]

Awards

David West Read won an Emmy for Schitt's Creek in 2020 as Executive Director for Outstanding Comedy Series.[9]

He also won a Golden Globe for Schitt's Creek in 2021, for Best Musical/Comedy Series.[10]

References

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