Born in the quiet suburbs of Ohio, where cul-de-sacs held whispers of small-town dramas, David James Parr first discovered his love for the imaginary. He built castles with words instead of bricks, conjured heroes before he could spell their names, and filled the backyard with entire universes. While growing up surrounded by chickens on his family's poultry farm in southwestern Pennsylvania, David began hunting and pecking tales on a manual typewriter that stretched far beyond the farm's pastures. Inspired by his parents, Donna Warner and Dave Parr, and their love of books and films, David was also fortunate to receive encouragement in his formative years from an ensemble cast of incredible teachers (Enter Stage Left: Aleta Lardin, Lisa Erb, Laura Davis, Elaine Oswald, and Michelle Herman). Graduating from OSU where he majored in Creative Writing and Theater, David subsequently moved to the vertical mazes of Chicago and New York City to hone his craft and collaborate with like-minded artists.

David’s literary career includes four novels, five novellas, twelve screenplays, sixteen plays, and seventy-two short stories. He is a three-time winner of the Tennessee Williams Short Fiction Award, and the film adaptation of his play Eleanor Rigby Is Waiting nabbed Best Independent Feature at the Manhattan Film Festival in 2019. He has been a finalist for The O'Neill Playwright's Conference, and his plays have landed him among the Top 10 in The Austin Film Festival Playwriting Competitions twice - in 2019 for Mimi at The 44th Parallel and in 2024 for Pluto Is Listening. Pluto also sparked cosmic applause, winning BroadwayWorld’s award for 2024 Best Off-Off-Broadway Production. And his immersive play Slap&Tickle is currently heading towards an off-Broadway run.

David's writing is characterized as love letters to unsung characters, unchartered places, and undiscovered truths. You may stumble upon him at a dimly lit café or in the dark corner of a bar in New York City, scribbling in the margins of his pages or typing furiously (but quietly) on his trusty laptop. That farm boy turned playwright is busy building worlds where Pluto listens, Eleanor Rigby waits, and we all find ourselves a little more connected than we thought.