Pauline David-Sax

Biography

Pauline David-Sax is a playwright, lyricist, children’s book author & educator living in Brooklyn, NY.

Playwriting: Pauline was awarded the Jane Chambers Playwriting Award (2020) for How We Survived and was named a finalist for the Henley Rose Playwright Competition for Women (2020-21), Mad Cow Theatre’s Women’s Voices Festival (2021), the Women Playwright Series at Centenary Stage Co. (2021), Players Club of Swarthmore’s New Play Festival (2020) and HRC Showcase Theatre’s national playwriting contest (2019), as well as a semi-finalist for American Blues Theater’s Blue Ink Playwriting Award (2022).

Lyrics: Pauline is a current member of the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop.

Children's books: Pauline has published two children's picture books: Everything in Its Place (Random House Children's Books, 2022) and The Time Machine (Cardinal Rule Press, 2023).

Pauline is a member of Dramatists Guild, SCBWI and Honor Roll!, an advocacy group of women+ playwrights over 40.