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Duncan Pflaster is the author of several plays, most recently Admit Impediments, a musical about marriage: Gay, Straight, and Opportunistic, that recently premiered as part of the MITF's first "Next Step Series".
He has won the Spotlight On award for "Best New Play" 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 the Big Epic Naked Shakespearean Fairy Tale Play Prince Trevor Amongst the Elephants in 2006.
Other plays include the critically acclaimed Gay love story The Wastes of Time in the 2006 Midtown International Theater Festival, the comedic science-fiction Lesbian drama Dik and Jayne Are Not The Same, the parallel universe cocktail party comedy Sleeping in Tomorrow, the comic Greek tragedy Amazing Daedalus, the pansexual soap opera musical Eskimo (Book & lyrics- music by Adam Rabin of the band Mailbox), and the drag queen Alice In Wonderland adaptation Wilder & Wilder.

Coming Soon, Duncan's sequel to A Midsummer Night's Dream: The Thyme of the Season!

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.

As an actor, he has appeared in a multitude of shows in New York, New Jersey and Florida, appearing most recently as Sir Andrew Aguecheek in Holla Holla's production of 12th Night, outdoors in Clinton Cove Park this Summer. 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 recieved a citation for "Outstanding New Musical" from Talkin' Broadway 2005.
He has a cameo in the short film Dark Side of the Sole.

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".



"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