Day of Learning Featured Speaker David Tucker
Author and
Keynote Speaker:
Major David A. Tucker, II

I have been writing plays and musicals since 1983 as well as having previously served as the literary manager for the Pasadena Playhouse from 1998 through 2001. My most recent play, Another Day in Baghdad, was recently given a staged reading by Seattle Repertory Theatre in August 2004 and is being produced at North Seattle Community College in February 2005.

My previous works include Under the Skin, an original full-length play given readings in Seattle and Los Angeles and under production consideration by Theater of the First Amendment in Washington D.C., Wilbur Hanks, a commissioned work by The Playwright’s Project in La Jolla California, produced October 1993, Mutiny in the Library, a children’s musical, produced by the Hope Summer Repertory Theatre in Michigan in July 1999, and The Ogre and the Five Magical Gold Coins, winner of the NorthWest Playwright’s Festival and produced by the Playwrights Ensemble Theater in Eugene, Oregon in 1989.

In April 2003, I was deployed to the Middle East as the commander of the 315th PSYOP Company in support of the 1st Armored Division in Baghdad, Iraq for eleven months. Another Day in Baghdad is a fictional work based on my experiences there.

I have a Master of Fine Arts in Musical Theater from San Diego State University and a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism from California State University, Chico.

About the Author
NSCC Winter 2005 Day of Learning: The Arts & War
About the Author: Major David A. Tucker