David Scott Hay is an award-winning playwright, screenwriter, and novelist; hailed by the Chicago Sun-Times as a new generation Albee-Mamet-Shepard. DSH’s screenplay adaptation of his play Hard Scrambled won Creative Screenwriting magazine’s New Visions Filmmaking Fellowship enabling him to direct the indie feature film starring Kurtwood Smith. The film held its premiere at the Cinequest San Jose Film Festival (2006) and went on to win Best Dramatic Feature at the Garden State Film Festival. He is the recipient of an Illinois Arts Council Finalist Award and Special Screenwriting Grant.
As a playwright, DSH wrote the critically acclaimed plays Hard Scrambled, Celeste, [The] Violent Sex, and Killing Lucifer amongst dozens of assorted productions and staged readings. He is also the co-writer of the Civil Rights play The Marker with David Barr III and Glenn Jeffers. And the co-writer on The Face of Emmett Till also with David Barr III.