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David Lawson

David Lawson smiling. A white man, short brown hair, wearing glasses, slight stubble on his face, with a teeth-showing smile.

Picture by Daniel Jacobson

David Lawson is a writer, performer, director, and teacher.

 

Lawson performs one-man shows all around New York City and across the country. His show Nazis and Me is about his encounters with hate groups.

Lawson's one-man show was Horror Helps.  was named among "the best Halloween theater in 2024" by Time Out New York and recieved a positive review from Thinking Theater NYC.

A clip from Time Out New York of "The best Halloween theater in 2024." Featuring a picture of David Lawson, short brown hair, glasses, wearing a black Halloween-themed shirt with green ghosts, orange pumpkins, and witches flying on broomsticks.

Lawson performed in the

Comedy Central sketch "The Rage Restaurant."

Since March 2014 Lawson has hosted the monthly Astoria Bookshop Storytelling Show, a free storytelling open mic the first Thursday of each month. The show has been profiled by HarlemView and has been featured in the New York Times.

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A selfie of about 25 smiling audience members seated at The Astoria Bookshop Storytelling Show, also featuring David Lawson smiling, taking the selfie, while wearing a maroon polo sirt.

Lawson has taught storytelling classes at Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning

and Queens Theatre.

David Lawson posing with three of his storytelling students. From left to right: A brown-skinned woman wearing a yellow shirt and glasses while smiling. A brown-skinned man wearing a t-shirt with a triangle logo and glasses while smiling. Lawson smiling. To Lawson's right, a black man wearing a yellow baseball hat, a white shirt, a cross necklace, glasses, and smiling. The four are pictured at the venue QED Astoria.

Lawson has taught workshops where students learn to write and perform one-person shows.

David Lawson and four one-person show class students. From left: A white middle aged man wearing glasses, a brown shirt, jeans, and glasses. A white, white-haired middle aged woman wearing a "SILENCE = DEATH" shirt with a pink triangle on it and jeans. A white, middle-aged woman with glasses wearing a black sweater with a blue pattern. David Lawson, smiling while wearing glasses and wearing a blue button-down shirt. An Asian man in his 40s wearing a blue shirt, blue pants, and a baseball hat.

Lawson has performed on the popular storytelling podcast RISK!

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An orange background with white text with a quote from David Lawson's episode of the RISK! storytelling podcast.

Lawson has directed several one-person shows including Richard Cardillo’s one-man show Invisibility that won the Audience Choice Award at the 2019 FRIGID New York Festival

An award certificate for winning the Audience Choice Award for Invisibility: A Journey of Pasta, Prayer, Protest, and Peru at the 2019 FRIGID New York Festival.
A picture of David Lawson performing onstage, wearing a black button-down shirt with purple stripes, microphone in his left hand, his right hand opened as if accepting a high five, eyebrows raised, slight smile on Lawson's face.
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