User:DouglasMoser

Douglas Moser(born 1959 in Ellwood City, PA) is a writer, editor, director of stage (some film), memoirist, currently finishing his comic thriller novel James & Jim.

Professional Career

In the 80s, at the age of 26, he was named artistic director of The Boston Post Road Stage Company, which eventually earned the reputation as off-Broadway in Connecticut. The second theatre operating under Actors' Equity Small Professional Theatre Contract (SPTC), the Boston Post Road Stage Company eventually found residence in the venerable Westport Country Playhouse.

Moser began his freelance career, teaching himself how to direct musicals in summer stock. Eventually, he and long-time collaborator Paula M. Kimper developed a groundbreaking opera with librettist Wende Persons. Patience & Sarah, based on the novel by Isabel Miller, began workshops at the American Opera Projects. It was selected by Lincoln Center for its 1998 Summer Festival, where it played to sold-out houses. The first operatic love story about two women falling in love in early 19th Century New England, Patience & Sarah continues to be performed throughout the U.S. Kimper and Moser returned to their material again in 2016 with a chamber version, produced at the Players Theatre. Front Row Center noted "under the hand of director, Douglas Moser, this ensemble commits itself from the first note to bring human struggles on stage right into our hearts."

In addition to directing over 75 plays in regional theatres in New England and New York, Moser directed a highly-acclaimed short film "Glacier Bay," with a script by Frederick Stroppel. Having collaborated with Stroppel on the stage production, starring Jack Klugman and his wife Brett Somers, the script was optioned by Open the Gate Productions. The film version starred James Noble and Dorothy Bryce. The bittersweet love story about an elderly couple navigating their failing memories, Glacier Bay went on to win a number of awards on the festival circuit.

He attended the prestigious Yale Summer Writers' Conference, spent one summer at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre Center developing the musical Hell Hole Honeys and has developed new works at the New York Theatre Workshop summer program at Dartmouth, and American Opera Projects.

Moser continues to direct occasionally, including an acclaimed one-woman musical, Spinning, written by and starring Mary Ann Frank, with original music by Andrew Levine, at the Long Wharf Theatre.

Currently he spends his time refining two novels, James & Jim, a darkly comic thriller about murder and mayhem in the corporate world, and Pussy Boy, a YA fantasy about a young boy and his magical Kingdom of Cats.

External sources: douglasmoser.com Pussy Boy

Personal

Moser was born in Ellwood City, PA, a small steel town in western Pennsylvania. Frequently bullied, Moser used his challenging adolescent years as inspiration for Pussy Boy. The fourth of five children, his parents Frances Davenport Moser and Charles R. Moser were journalists. His father was editor-in-chief of the Ellwood City Ledger. He attended the University of Bridgeport, majoring in film and theatre. He lives in Northford, CT with his husband Andrew Rubenoff, an event and theatrical designer.