Name: David Rodwin: Miami Madness
Start: 2024-05-23T19:30:00-04:00
End: 2024-06-01T21:00:00-04:00
Location: DC Arts Center (DCAC)

The Moth champion, David Rodwin, shares a hilarious story about being hired to write a musical about the history of Miami produced on a boat
About this Event

Rodwin tells a hilarious story about getting hired to write a musical about the history of Miami. To be staged on a boat. Owned by a Russian oligarch. Produced by a guy who sold timeshares. Hold tight as Rodwin takes his boss’s horrifying comedic taste and spins it into gold. Who will win the death match between San Francisco culture and Floridian worldview? No one on a boat.

In addition to the unmaking of this musical, Rodwin shares his love affair with the history of Miami, despite its rabidly anti-Semitic founding fathers. He even discovers his great-grandfather was one of the 'Binder Boys' who fomented the 1920s Florida land rush that ended in a real estate bubble which makes the 2008 financial crisis look like child's play.

Based in San Francisco, Rodwin premiered Miami Madness, his 9th solo show, in New York City at the Wild Project before starting a 2024 North American tour.

Rodwin’s last show, F*ck Tinder: a love story, won Best Solo Performance at the 2018 Capital Fringe Festival during a completely sold-out run. It was also nominated for Best Solo Performance at the 2018 Hollywood Fringe Festival before touring to sold out runs at the Vancouver Fringe, the Edmonton Fringe and performances in Boulder, Portland, Martha's Vineyard, NYC, Los Angeles, and San Francisco.

David Rodwin (Writer/Director/Performer) is a Moth Champion and a Jonathan Larson Award-winner who has toured 9 solo shows to over 30 cities. He also wrote and composed 8 operas/musicals which were developed or produced at: LaMaMa, HERE, Mabou Mines, Dixon Place, American Opera Projects, The Berkshire Theatre Festival, Sacred Fools, The O’Neill, New Dramatists, Joe's Pub and The Public Theatre.

After 9/11, Rodwin founded Raw Impressions Music Theatre where he commissioned, developed and produced 170 ten-minute musicals at LaMaMa. He also founded RIPFest where he produced 60 short films – mostly movie musicals - created by, and featuring artists including: Lonny Price, Rachel Sheinkin, Tonya Pinkins, DJ Javerbaum, Lee Breuer, Scott Schwartz, Alex Woo (Three-Body Problem) and Jon Spaihts (Dune).

Rodwin worked in the writers’ rooms on TV shows from CBS to Disney and is glad to have returned to the stage where he can share his insane stories any way he wants to.