David M. Mortensen

curriculum vitae

Brigham Young University, Bachelors of Arts in Theatre Arts Studies, degree expected August 2009
- Directing: Rodger Sorensen, George Nelson
- Dramaturgy: Wade Hollingshaus
- New Play Dev.: Eric Samuelsen
- Critical Studies: Megan Sanborn Jones
Weber State University, Associate of Arts in General Studies, degree awarded

RABBIT HOLE by David Lindsay-Abaire, BYU Experimental Theatre Company 2009
24 HOUR THEATRE, BYU Experimental Theatre Company 2009
VARIATIONS ON A SCENE, BYU Experimental Theatre Company 2008
BREAD OF AFFLICTION by Matthew Greene, BYU Experimental Theatre Company / Society for the Study of Jewish-American and Holocaust Literature 2008
PROMETHEUS UNBOUND by Mahonri Stewart, BYU Experimental Theatre Club 2008
WITH EYES CLOSED adapted by Ryan Meyers, BYU Experimental Theatre Club 2007
OEDIPUS TYRANNUS translated by Marianne McDonald, BYU Experimental Theatre Club 2007
WOYZECK by Georg Buchner, BYU Experimental Theatre Club 2007
THE DECAMERON by Russell Warne, BYU Experimental Theatre Club 2007

VARIATIONS ON A BREAKUP by Matthew Greene, New Play Project 2008
WITHOUT FEAR by Morag Shepherd, BYU Experimental Theatre Company 2008
BUNNY BUNNY by Alan Zweibel, BYU Mask Club 2008
Codirector: THE SECRET GARDEN by Marsha Norman, Kaysville City Corp 2002

DIAL “M” FOR MURDER by Frederick Knott, BYU College of Fine Arts and Communications 2008

In Production
"I think only people in the theatre know what a producer is. The public does not know. It knows a writer writes, and an actor acts, and a director tells them what to do. A producer raises money. Well, he does, and in some cases that's all he does. But the workers in the theatre know that this is not the real thing. A producer is a rare, paradoxical genius-- hard-headed, soft-hearted, cautious, reckless, a hopeful innocent in fair weather, a stern pilot in stormy weather, a mathematician who prefers to ignore the laws of mathematics and trust intuition, an idealist, a realist, a practical dreamer, a sophisticated gambler, a stage-struck child. That's a producer." -OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN II