David Blakely is a playwright (and director, actor, musician, and songwriter) from Tulsa, Oklahoma. His full-length plays include Trade Privileges, The Light Fantastic, For Your Examination, and adaptations of The Deaths of Sybil Bolton, Enemy of the People, and Frankenstein. Among his shorter plays are Wilson Bledsoe’s Return, The Next Blue Moon, Attention, Still She Rises, and The River Hope. His current projects are The Lingering Demise of Ocey Snead (about 3 murderous sisters) and Viceroy on the Hudson (loosely based on the life of his country doctor great-grandfather). He is an emeritus playwright-in-residence for Heller Theatre and a member of the Dramatists Guild.