Douglas Parker Net Worth

Douglas Parker Net Worth is
$100,000

Douglas Parker Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018

Douglas M. Parker (born May 25, 1963) is a playwright best known for biographical and reality-based plays. His works include BESSIE: The Life and Music of Bessie Smith (2005), a play with music about the rise and fall of the great American blues singer; Life on the Mississippi (2006), a play about the young Samuel Clemens leaving home to learn about steamboat piloting, adapted from Mark Twain's autobiographical book of the same title; Declarations (2007), a one-act play drawn from the letters of John and Abigail Adams from their earliest courtship through the summer of 1776;Thicker Than Water (2009), a drama based on the Andrea Yates murders; and "The Private History of a Campaign That Failed" (2011), based on Twain's comic memoir about his brief period as a lieutenant in a Confederate volunteer regiment.Working as librettist and lyricist, Parker adapted his play Life on the Mississippi into a musical with composer Denver Casado. In October, 2008, Life on the Mississippi was named by the National Alliance for Musical Theatre as one of their Five Shows You Should Know. In January, 2009, Goodspeed Opera House presented the musical as one of three shows in their Festival of New Artists. In January, 2010, a shorter, young audience version of Life on the Mississippi premiered at the Coterie Theatre in Kansas City to positive reviews. In June, 2010, the full-length version premiered with a ten-week run at American Folklore Theatre in Wisconsin, where it received strong reviews.In July 2012, Parker's play Thicker Than Water won second prize at Barter Theatre's Appalachian Festival of Plays and Playwrights. In September 2013, Thicker Than Water received a full production, with a scheduled run of six weeks, garnering highly favorable reviews. In October 2013, Thicker Than Water was selected as an official entrant for the 2014 Pulitzer Prize in Drama, although it ultimately did not win.Mr. Parker's works have been produced in theaters across the country. His works have received multiple NEA production grants. He is an alumnus of the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theater Workshop, and a member of ASCAP and the Dramatists Guild of America. 

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