My plays want to be part of your next big night out.
If you want someone who can write about nightlife, music, queerness, bodies, geopolitics and how we use technology in the 21st century, get in touch.
These Gays! They’re Trying To…
The Divine, 2024-25
An alt-panto, a post-modern queer pop culture fantasia, and a mad melodrama. What if Season 5 of The White Lotus was set in Reykyavik, and starred Lindsay Lohan, Bjork and Kermit the Frog? What if there was a plotline about Amy Adams needing to win an Oscar? What if HBO Max decided to feature an ovipositor dildo? These Gays! was a riotous celebration of how we consume culture, good or bad, and make it our personality.
“You could feel the love, shared community, and utter joy that was being spread. Quittner’s direction, alongside the script, was perfect from start to finish.” - Broadway World
“The writing sparkles with clever one-liners and an unapologetic embrace of niche references that will delight those familiar with The White Lotus and Queer meme culture.” - Squirrp.com
“Fast-paced, satirical and camper than Christmas” - Curtain Call Reviews
Too Much Pills And Liquor
The Divine, 2024
Too Much Pills And Liquor is a look at white gay men’s relationship to the world beyond them, and what happens when self-care gets in the way of the real work. The Royal Court described the script as "a perceptive portrait of contemporary London with clear characterisation.”
“One of the strongest writing voices I’ve witnessed in a while.” - Theatricellie
“Very, very funny…. And becomes so real you quickly start to forget you’re watching a play.”
“Brilliant writing. This. Was. So. Good.” - Alan Turkington
“Absolutely incredible” - @urfavgayslay
Silent Meat
The Pleasance, 2017; Seven Dials Playhouse, 2019; VAULT Festival, 2020
A semi-true story of death, love and disco Silent Meat took five stories of loss and grief and wove them together with all of David’s classic theatrical traits: music, pop culture, an intimate understanding of tech and sex, and a script that made you laugh out loud until it brought everyone to tears.
“In short, the play was brilliant” - LondonTheatre1
"Silent Meat is an incredible play about trying to understand death” - The Strand Magazine
"My new writing highlight of 2017... there were moments when I’ve never felt the audience around me fall quite so silent." - Arthur's Seat
Cinderella The Opera
Warwick Arts Centre, 2014
Not everyday that someone writes a student show that gets sponsored by Nando’s, least of an opera - but my show Cinderella, co-written with the director Arthur Jones, managed just that. A modern retelling of Rossini’s La Cenerentola moved to 21st century Essex, the show turned a dry operatic version of a classic fairytale into a bawdy, sexy, pop culture-literate show that still followed all operatic convention.
"The new translation, by Jones and Warwick’s seasoned and multitalented David Levesley (founded on an earlier version by John Aldis), hits the solar plexus of student humour… A Cenerentola just full of ideas, fizzing energy and incredibly funny (no pictures can do justice to its sheer explosive impact)." (Behind The Arras)