Third Act: David J. Preece
- Jun. 04, 2021
After retiring from urban and regional planning, David Preece’s third act is in high gear. His plays, “The Unicorn from the Stars,” and “Dancing among the Wildflowers,” won of the Vermont Playwright Award 2020 and the Best One-Act Play with Mixing It Up Production’s 2020 Spring Emerging Playwrights Contest. His award-winning play adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray was published by Norman Maine in the spring of 2021.
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