Don Stitt Collected Plays

Don Stitt is an actor, writer, director, choreographer and composer who began his career in the mid 1960s. He was born in 1956, in Stamford, CT. He attended San Francisco State University and while there wrote the book, music and lyrics for Babes on 42nd Street, The Doonesbury Revue, Joy, and A Kid's Summer Night's Dream. He was a professional actor through the 1970s based in California and continued to write for the theater. In 1976, he was in the cast of Beach Blanket Babylon. The following year he was featured in the first Equity production of The Great American Backstage Musical, performing it in San Francisco and Palm Springs.

In 1978, Stitt created a revue called Irving Berlin in Revue, which ran for two years (and enjoyed a revival in 1993.) He then relocated to New York City where he directed an Equity production of his children's piece, A Kid's Summer Night's Dream in 1979. Later that year, he choreographed Godspell and appeared in Man of La Mancha and Grease for the Burt Reynolds Dinner Theater.

In the 1980s, he made his Broadway debut in Do Black Patent Leather Shoes Really Reflect Up?, and returned in Late Nite Comic a few seasons later. (The latter is the subject of the book We Bombed in New London.) Stitt was integral to the New York revival of El Grande de Coca Cola at The Village Gate and toured with Chita Rivera and the Radio City Music Hall Rockettes for over a year in Can-Can.

In the 1990s, he played in Alan Freed in Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story and played Marcus Lycus in the revival of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum on Broadway and was prominent as a commercial actor in hundreds of spots as an on-camera and/or voice-over actor.

Stitt also made some brief appearances in some feature films, including Fame, Simon, Stardust Memories, The Wanderers, and World Trade Center.

More recently, Stitt has played the Mayor of Whoville, first in the National Tour of the Broadway musical Seussical, (which starred Olympic gymnast Cathy Rigby as the Cat in the Hat,) and another production at the Fulton Opera House in Lancaster, PA. He has also appeared on television's "Law & Order," and made his 15th appearance on "The Late Show with David Letterman" in 2005. That same year, he also played Elton John in the world premiere of A Girl Called Dusty at the Provincetown Playhouse.

He received an MFA in playwriting from Western Connecticut State University in 2007, where premiered a one-man show called The Voices in My Head Have Formed a Choir and Somebody's Singing Flat!, as well as a comedy called Civil Intercourse.

He is married to Professor Elizabeth Popiel of WCSU, who is also a resident scenic designer for Good Morning America.

Stitt currently lives in New York City.

Sources:

• Evans, Seth (undated). Don Stitt Professional Actor/Comedian. Retrieved April 14, 2009, from http://sethevans.net/ Web site: http://sethevans.net/roscoe/bios/donbio.htm