David Boles
Author, Dramatist, Editor, Publisher, Teacher
David Boles has sustained an active, wide-ranging professional career across more than forty years. He holds an MFA from Columbia University, where he trained at the Oscar Hammerstein II Center for Graduate Theatre Studies. His work spans theater, broadcasting, streaming, publishing, and education, with a particular commitment to authorship as full responsibility: writing, directing, and producing rather than fragmenting creative control.
Born in Lincoln, Nebraska, Boles began as a child actor before shifting into behind-the-scenes work in television, film, and live stage. He was the youngest undergraduate associate editor for the Prairie Schooner literary quarterly, and his short story McDugan's Barn won the Mari Sandoz Prairie Schooner Award for Fiction in 1984. He founded David Boles Books Writing and Publishing in 1975.
The Boles Network
A constellation of interconnected projects spanning publishing, education, advocacy, and creative services.
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