David Petrarca Biography

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David Petrarca was director at the Goodman Theatre (Chicago) from 1988 until 2005.

He was the recipient of a TCG/NEA Director Fellowship and has served as associate artistic director for the Cincinnati Playhouse and the Chelsea Theatre Centre in New York City, and on the NEA Theatre Panel.

He has taught for North Carolina School of the Arts, the O'Neill Center and Northwestern University and has developed new work for New York Stage and Film and Breadloaf.

In 1996, Mr. Petrarca was chosen by the Chicago Tribune as a "Chicagoan of the Year."

In 2006, he complted filming SAVE THE LAST DANCE II for Paramount Pictures. As of mid-2006, he was working on the screenplay of Wendy MacLeod's Schoolgirl Figure for HBO, and a film of Fuddy Meers.

TV filmography Director

• Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip (1 episode)
  
• Everwood (12 episodes)
  
• Jack & Bobby (4 episodes)
  
• Summerland (1 episode)
  
• Joan of Arcadia
  
• Dawson's Creek (7 episodes)
  
• Felicity (1 episode)
  
• Pasadena (1 episode)
  
• Jack & Jill (4 episodes)
  
• Gilmore Girls (1 episode)
  
• Popular (1 episode)
  
• Cupid (1 episode)
  
• To Have & to Hold
  
• Nothing Sacred (1 episode)
  
• Early Edition
  

Film Director

• Save the Last Dance 2 (2007)
  

Selected Play Directions

• Marvin's Room (Directed the premiere in New York City as well as the West End of London)
  
• Fuddy Meers (Directed premiere)
  
• The House of Martin Guerre
  
• Wendy MacLeod's Sin
  
• Tom Donaghy's Down the Shore
  
• David Cale's Somebody Else's House
  
• Deep in a Dream of You
  
• Sally Nemeth's Mill Fire
  
• Marvin's Room
  
• The Beard of Avon
  
• Design for Living
  
• Richard II
  
• Light Up The Sky
  
• The Skin of Our Teeth
  
• The Visit
  
• A Year With Frog And Toad on Broadway (Tony Nomination, Best Musical)
  
• Dinah Was
  
• David Lindsay-Abaire's Kimberly Akimbo
  
• Wendy MacLeod's Juvenilia
  
• Michael John LaChiusa's Lovers And Friends
  
• David Marshall Grant's Current Events
  
• The Water Children by Wendy MacLeod
  
• Tom Donaghy's Northeast Local
  
• Chay Yew's Red at Long Wharf
  
• Dark Rapture
  
• A Midsummer Night's Dream
  
• Sam Shephard's The Tooth of Crime
  
• Keith Reddin's Peacekeeper
  
• Away
  
• George F. Walker's Nothing Sacred
  
• Craig Carnelia and Craig Lucas' Three Postcards
  
• Kevin Kling's Lloyd's Prayer
  

External links

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• David Petrarca at TV.com
  
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• David Petrarca at the Internet Theatre Database.
  

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