Writer’s Spotlight: David Veatch
David Veatch grew up in central Iowa in a small town called Mitchellville, He did plays through his homeschool co-op, and and says that’s where he caught the bug. He got to direct a play his senior year of high school when he decided he was going to do theater. He said, “I did my first play through my church with one line when I was five years old.” When he was nine, he went to his school's play and decided, “I'm going to write a play,”. Veatch said, “The first play I ever wrote was about a bunch of astronauts who sent their boyfriends up to space, and then they blew up the rocket ship because they were mad at them. So I had really heavy things on my mind as a kid, clearly.” “I was always creating and thinking up stories, and just writing things in like a Google doc or a ...
