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David Beaird (born 1952 in Shreveport, Louisiana) is an American film and stage director, screenwriter, and playwright. ==Career== In 1973 he was recipient of the Joseph Jefferson Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for his performance in the play "The Hot l Baltimore" at the Ivanhoe Theatre in Chicago, Illinois.〔(Jeff Awards Database --> Type "Beaird" into the search field for recipient )〕 In 1974 he founded the Wisdom Bridge Theatre which flourished after Robert Falls took the director's post in 1977.〔Hedy Weiss: White to quit Wisdom Bridge. In: Chicago Sun-Times. December 1, 1988〕〔Don B. Wilmeth, Tice L. Miller: ''Cambridge guide to American theatre'' p 408. Cambridge University Press, 1996. ISBN 978-0-521-56444-1〕 Beaird's first feature film ''The Party Animal'', a comedy, was released in 1984. His next film ''Octavia'' (1984) was about a blind woman who is raped by a motorcycle gang. In 1986 he came to wider prominence with the comedy ''My Chauffeur'' starring Deborah Foreman. In 1988 he shot the comedies ''Pass the Ammo'' with Bill Paxton, Linda Kozlowski, Tim Curry, and Annie Potts and ''It Takes Two'' featuring Kimberly Foster. In 1991 he adapted his 1985 stage play ''Scorchers'' for the big screen, with Faye Dunaway, James Earl Jones, Emily Lloyd, Jennifer Tilly, and Leland Crooke in the leading roles. In 1993 he created the thirteen part television series ''Key West''. In 1994 he brought ''900 Oneonta'', a black comedy about a dysfunctional family, to the stage.〔(New York Times: Did Someone Say Mendacity? (No, Not That Play) )〕〔(New York Times: A House of Horrors )〕 It had its premiere at the Lyric Hammersmith in London. Afterwards it was staged in the Old Vic and then at the West End theatre. It was the last play at the Circle Repertory Theatre in New York City before it was closed in 1996.〔''Thomas S. Hischak, Gerald Martin Bordman: Volume Four of the distinguished American Theatre: A Chronicle of Comedy and Drama series offers a thorough, candid, and fascinating look at the theater in New York during the last decades of the twentieth century''.p 395. Oxford University Press US, 2001. ISBN 978-0-19-512347-0〕 Eddie Izzard, Leland Crooke, Jon Cryer, and Douglas Henshall performed in the play. In 2005 he directed the film ''The Civilization of Maxwell Bright''〔(【引用サイトリンク】The New York Times">title=The Civilization of Maxwell Bright )〕 which earned him awards at the Beverly Hills Film Festival, the WorldFest Houston and the Florida Film Festival in 2005. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「David Beaird」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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