His play LIGHT SWITCH received its world premiere with Spectrum Theatre Ensemble in April 2022. He was one of two recipients of the Blank Theatre and Ucross Foundation's inaugural Future of Playwriting Prize. His work has been seen and developed at KCACTF Region 8, the Kennedy Center/NNPN MFA Playwrights Workshop, B Street Theatre, the William Inge Theatre Festival, the Midwest Dramatists Conference, Phoenix Theatre Company, Clamour Theatre Company, Premiere Stages, and more. It’s a world I didn’t know, but a world that I’m grateful Dave gave me a tender glimpse of.” -Gary Garrison, playwright, and author of Perfect 10: Writing and Producing the 10-Minute Playĭave Osmundsen (He/Him/His) is an Autistic playwright and dramaturg whose work explores the intersections of queerness and neurodiversity. The relationships in the play are painfully complicated and fully realized by the playwright’s keen observations of young people colliding in a world of love, sex, intimacy and intellectualism. “With LIGHT SWITCH, Dave Osmundsen has deftly written a beautifully poignant play of first love and self-acceptance through an Autistic lens. It tells the story of a challenged, often challenging, but always endearing young man who is learning how to love.” -Michael John Carley, Founder, GRASP, Director, the Connections Program for New York University’s global Autistic Students, Author, The Book of Happy, Positive, and Confident Sex for Adults on the Autism Spectrum … and Beyond! “Its intersectional importance aside, LIGHT SWITCH is simply a magnificent, skillfully-written play. I highly recommend this play for theaters with young ensembles and for people interested in sitting down to read a fantastic play that will entertain and move them.” -Brian James Polak, playwright and host of The Subtext podcast Just like the main character Henry, we all seek love. What defines us as individuals differs in the details, yet we are all after the same things in life. The play is a classic example of the specific being universal. “With LIGHT SWITCH, Osmundsen has created one of the great central characters of contemporary theater in a beautifully written story existing at the intersection of neurodiversity and queerness. Its messages go well beyond the world of autism and LGBTQ relationships, and will be meaningful for those whose lives are touched by autism as well as those whose lives are not (or not yet).” -Barry M Prizant, author of Uniquely Human: A Different Way of Seeing Autism LIGHT SWITCH will have you on the edge of your seat with riveting humor as well as deeply felt emotional moments, portrayed in a manner that is engaging, entertaining and educational. Dave Osmundsen, a gay, autistic playwright, weaves his personal experiences as both child and an adult into a passionate tapestry of loving relationships and insights into the autistic mind. ![]() ![]() ![]() “LIGHT SWITCH is a vital and important theatrical piece.
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