David Fleisher is
a playwright and author who has had his plays produced in the United States, Ireland
and Mexico. His 10-minute plays appear in anthologies including 35 in 10: Thirty-Five Ten-Minute Plays (4-1-1, Dramatic Publishing) and The Best Ten-Minute Plays 2015 (Maid Service, Smith & Kraus), and his monologues in The
Best Men’s Stage Monologues of 1999
and The Best Women’s Stage Monologues of
2000 (Smith & Kraus). Grave
Concerns, a collection of his short plays, is in the library of the Drama
League of Ireland in Dublin. Fleisher co-wrote the book for the musical Postcards from Paradise, which was
produced in 2017 at Lynn University in Boca Raton, Fla., as well as in Dublin. In
Fleisher’s coming-of-age memory play, Spring
Training, a boy preparing for his bar mitzvah confronts the harsh realities
of racism and anti-Semitism. A story of love, loss and sacrifice set in the
segregated South during the turbulent 1960s, Spring Training was a semifinalist at the Eugene O’Neill
Playwriting Conference. Fleisher is co-author of the nonfiction book Death of an American: The Killing of John
Singer. He also wrote the book for a documusical based on Death of an American that was produced in
1998 at the Egyptian Theatre in Park City, Utah. Fleisher retired as professor emeritus
from Lynn University. He is a member of The
Dramatists Guild, Inc.
