David Beaird

David Beaird (born 1952 in Shreveport, Louisiana) is an American film and stage director, screenwriter, and playwright. 2Career 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. In 1974 he founded the Wisdom Bridge Theatre which flourished after Robert Falls took the director's post in 1977.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 and It Takes Two. 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 13-part television series Key West. In 1994, he brought 900 Oneonta, a black comedy about a dysfunctional family, to the stage. It had its premiere at the Lyric Hammersmith in Londo