David Drake (actor)

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David Drake (actor)

Birth name	David Drakula
Born	June 27, 1964 (1964-06-27) (age 43) Baltimore, Maryland
Nationality	American
Area(s)	playwright, stage director, actor, author
Notable works	The Night larry Kramer Kissed Me
Awards	Village Voice Obie Award, Dramalogue Award for "Outstanding Solo Performance", Robbie Stevens Frontiers Magazine Award for "Outstanding Solo Performance"

David Drake (born 1963 or 1964) is an American playwright, stage director, actor and author. He is best-known as the author and original performer of The Night Larry Kramer Kissed Me, for which he received a Village Voice Obie Award, a 1994 Dramalogue Award for "Outstanding Solo Performance," and a Robbie Stevens Frontiers Magazine Award for the same. Nominations include a 1994 LA Weekly Theater Awards and a Lambda Literary Award nomination for "Best New Play of 1994" (published by Anchor Books).

1 Biography
2 Bibliography
3 See also
4 References

[edit] Biography

Born as David Drakula June 27th 1964 in Edgewood, Maryland, and raised in Baltimore, Maryland, he later began going by David Drake. He has contributed articles to the Advocate, Theater-Week, and Details. One of the longest one-actor plays in Off Broadway history, Larry Kramer has received over thirty productions in nearly a dozen countries, and the published version was nominated for a Lambda Literary Award.

In 2000 Drake starred in a movie version of The Night Larry Kramer Kissed Me. The movie was directed by Tim Kirkman and was filmed at Baltimore Theatre Project.

David Drake has appeared in the feature film Philadelphia and on the stage in Vampire Lesbians of Sodom, Pageant, The Boys in the Band, and A Language of Their Own.

He now lives in New York City.