The Fat of the Land, originally produced at The New Theater in Los Angeles, was a semifinalist for the Kaufman & Hart Award for new American Comedy and received a Los Angeles Ovation Award for best featured actor.
Piss Play is About Minorities So It’s Really Important was produced in the summer of 2009 as part of the New York Cringe Festival where it received the Golden Pineapple Award for best play and an acting award for the lead actor.
American Air was the first one-man-show to deal with the life changing events of a near plane crash presented at Theater/Theatre, Two Roads Theater Company, Soho Repertory, Ensemble Studio Theater and The HBO Workspace. Live Work Space opens in Los Angeles at West Coast Ensemble in July, 2011.
Mr. Cummings’ movie, The Buzz Kill, about an accidental book club murder in Mexico is ready for shooting. Other scripts for film and television include an alternative lifestyle Zombie movie, Oh, The Horror! and three television pilots, Money, Sons and Mothers and The King is Always Right.
A collection of creative nonfiction essays loosely held together in a yet-to-be-published memoir, Open Trench, is named after Mr. Cummings’ popular blog, www.opentrench.blogspot.com.
Mr. Cummings has appeared in readings at Comedy Central’s Sit N’ Spin, A Different Light Bookstore and Art by the Ferry in New York.
Beginning as a young actor and singer, Mr. Cummings was a recurring guest star on the television series Dharma & Greg as the annoyed waiter and has appeared on many other television shows including: Mad About You, Lucky, Still Standing, and Half and Half. Film appearances include the lead role in the Houston Film Festival winner, The Appointment, directed by Todd Wade, Noho, directed by David Schrader and in over forty plays and musicals on both coasts and in regional theaters including Macbeth in Macbeth, Mr. Bungee in A New Brain, Berenger in Exit the King, Ray in Lone Star, and The Man in Alan Ball’s Power Lunch.
As a musician, Mr. Cummings received the LA WEEKLY Award for Best Revival Production for his arrangement and musical direction of The Grapes of Wrath. He composed and performed the music for I’m Really Different (Now)! at Largo in Los Angeles, alongside comedians Karen Kilgariff and Sarah Silverman.
Mr. Cummings is a graduate of Tufts University with a BS in Biology, a graduate of the two year program of The Neighborhood Playhouse School of Theater, a member of The Dramatists Guild, West Coast Ensemble, Screen Actors Guild, Actors Equity and Aftra. Originally from the Hudson Valley, Mr. Cummings lives in New York City and Los Angeles with his Recognized-by-the-State-of-California-Domestic-Partner of many good years and the ghosts of many dead pets. Don Cummings is almost fluent in French and writes music.
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