Duncan Pflaster is the author of several plays, most recently The Starship Astrov, Suckers, Ore, or Or and Prince Trevor Amongst the Elephants (a Big Epic Naked Ridiculous Shakespearean Fairy Tale Play for Adults), which had its Multi-Award-Winning 1st full production in the 2008 Midtown International Theater Festival, and Admit Impediments (a musical about marriage: Gay, Straight, and Opportunistic) which premiered as part of the MITF's first "Next Step” Developmental Series in 2007. He won the Spotlight On award for "Best New Script" 2 years running, for the existential comedy Eternity: Time Without End, (which also won "Best Actress" (Clara Barton Green), Best Supporting Actor (Jason Specland) and Best Featured Actor (Joe Fanelli)) in 2005, and for an earlier staged reading of Prince Trevor Amongst the Elephants in 2006. Other plays include The Thyme of the Season (a Hallowe’en sequel to A Midsummer Night’s Dream), the critically acclaimed Gay love story The Wastes of Time, the comedic science-fiction Lesbian drama Dik and Jayne Are Not The Same, the parallel universe cocktail party comedy Sleeping in Tomorrow (nominated for a 2004 Spotlight On award), the comic Greek tragedy Amazing Dædalus, the book and lyrics for the pansexual soap opera musical Eskimo (music by Adam Rabin of the band “Mailbox”), and the drag queen Alice In Wonderland adaptation Wilder & Wilder. He was chosen for the 2nd Small Pond Producer Sprint (2 weeks to put up an hour of material), where he developed his ten-minute plays The Fugly Train, First to Fall Asleep, and Hold thy Peace, Thou Knave. His one-act Patrick and Lisa’s Wedding was produced September 2008 by DeBaun Center for the Performing Arts, as part of the Hudson County One-act Festival.

He is part of the EMG Playwrights Group, and is listed on Doollee.com, as well as Wikipedia.

He has directed productions of As You Like It (Holla Holla Productions), Aria Da Capo (Debaun Center for the Performing Arts), What the Butler Saw (Florida Playwrights' Theatre- co-director), and others, including the first productions of many of his own plays.

He has been known to act on occasion, if his arm is twisted. As an actor, he has appeared in a multitude of shows in New York, New Jersey and Florida, appearing most recently as Sheriff Boone Doggleberry in I Hate Love, which garnered him an MITF Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor, as well as Outstanding Ensemble for the whole cast. Other roles include Sir Andrew Aguecheek in Holla Holla's production of 12th Night, outdoors in Clinton Cove Park. He played Ritchie in the first production of his own Admit Impediments, and appeared as The Baron de Charlus in Tennessee Williams' Camino Real with Art House Productions in March 2007. Also with Holla Holla, he appeared as Bottom in their Summer 2006 Central Park production of A Midsummer Night's Dream. He appeared as a Musician in Martin Sherman's Messiah at the Workshop Theater Company (for which he also composed original music), as Friar Thomas in Glory Sims Bowen's adaptation of Measure For Measure at the Looking Glass Theatre, and as Bill the Cop in Apathy, the Gen X Musical in the 2005 Midtown International Theater Festival, which received a citation for "Outstanding New Musical" from Talkin' Broadway 2005.
He has a cameo as Jonah in the short film Dark Side of the Sole by Jake Leg Films.

Duncan has written music at Songfight, under the name Level Nivelo.

He is a featured performer at Ukulele Cabaret events in New York (video available at the site and at Ukulele Disco).

He is a frequent contributor to Overheard in New York, as well as Cap'n Wacky's Lists.

He has written theatre reviews for BroadwayWorld and HX.

The P in his last name is silent, as in "Pfieffer" or "Pfister".

"With his large imagination and witty dialogue, Pflaster is definitely a playwright to watch."

- Amy Freeman, Off Off Online

"Duncan Pflaster is obviously a gutsy playwright".

- Michael Dale, BroadwayWorld.com

"This author is truly among the current undiscovered great off-off Broadway writers."

- G.S. Bowen, "Hi!Drama"

"...truly too gentle a soul for this world of ours".

- Bob Ost, TRUOnline