Dave Awl

Dave Awl is a Chicago-based writer and performer. As a tech writer and social media aficionado, he's the author of Facebook Me! A Guide to Having Fun with Your Friends and Promoting Your Projects on Facebook and a regular contributor to The Adobe Illustrator Wow! Book (both from Peachpit Press), and has written about LinkedIn for CreativePro.com.

As a Chicago-based poet, playwright, and fringe theater performer, Dave is an alumnus of Chicago's popular Neo-Futurists theater company, and has appeared on NPR's This American Life. His scripts have been included in three book collections of material from the long-running original show Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind, and his work has been performed in high school, college, and regional theater productions across the country. He was the editor for the most recent book collection of Neo-Futurist scripts, entitled 200 More Neo-Futurist Plays.

In 2002, a book collection of Dave's writing was published under the title What the Sea Means: Poems, Stories & Monologues, 1987-2002 (Hope and Nonthings Publishing).

Dave's poetry and short fiction have been published in After Hours magazine, Milk Magazine, and Blithe House Quarterly. In addition to his work with the Neo-Futurists, he founded the Pansy Kings performance series, has performed with Theater Oobleck and Tellin' Tales Theater, and currently hosts a cabaret variety show called The Partly Dave Show.