Boles Exchange

Established 1995 · Operating Position No. 1 · New York · Day ···

Universal Line

All roads lead to the same switchboard.

The Operator

David Boles is an author, dramatist, editor, publisher, and teacher whose work has continued without break since 1975, when he was paid for his first byline at age ten in Lincoln, Nebraska. His training crosses medicine, law, and dramatic literature; his practice spans the live stage, broadcast and streaming, the printed page, cinema, education, and the open web. Boles.com itself has operated since 1995, three years before Google. The current operation includes fifteen sites in active circulation, a dozen books in production this year, a podcast running into its tenth year, and a teaching record across Columbia, NYU, Rutgers-Newark, Fordham, and the City University of New York.

Today on the Desk

Ischia is Burning, v16. Naples interlude under close revision.

Editorial Stance

The Prairie Voice Archive exists to preserve truth through the written word, the live stage, and the examined life. The work attends to democratic stability and to the conditions under which it fails. Across every form, the editorial position is that facts are not optional and that a serious public conversation requires evidence, argument, and a willingness to be wrong out loud.

From the Margins

A page is a room. Furnish it with care or do not invite anyone in.

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Active Lines

Currently in production

Ischia is Burning Novel · 2026 The Apothecary of Mantua New Musical · 2026 Tomorrow as Tribute Ideas · 2026

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The Switchboard

Boles Constellation · Twelve Lines

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Held Lines

From the Archive

David Boles Brands Established 1975 10 11 Strong KOLN/KGIN · 1980s GIS in Public Health Jersey City · 2004

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Adjacent Station

ASL Operations · Janna Sweenie

A parallel position operated by Janna Sweenie, ASL performer, educator, and co-founder. Two co-founded properties below; the CUNY-SPS ASL Program is listed in the Directory.

Hardcore ASL ASL Education ASL-Opera Opera in Sign

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Listening Booth

Selected audio from the archive

Table I

Directory Listings

Education · Teaching · Affiliations · Credentials

Education

1991Columbia University. Master of Fine Arts, Oscar Hammerstein II Center for Graduate Theatre Studies. Playwriting with Dr. Howard Stein. Consecutive Shubert Organization Presidential Scholarships. BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop. High Honors MFA Thesis.

1987University of Nebraska. Bachelor of Arts, English major, Theatre minor. Vreeland Scholar. Mari Sandoz Prairie Schooner Award for Fiction. American College Theatre Festival Playwright. Cable ACE Award. Daily Nebraskan Columnist.

Teaching

Columbia University, New York University, Rutgers-Newark, New Jersey Institute of Technology, UMDNJ, Fordham University, City University of New York (School of Professional Studies). Subjects across playwriting, screenwriting, dramatic literature, public health, ASL linguistics, and the practice of writing for performance.

Affiliations

Member: Dramatists Guild (since 1984, No. 45010), Authors Guild, PEN America.

Credentials

Author Page · IMDbPro · YouTube · Boles.xyz.

"David Boles is Abe Burrows without the Pulitzers." Said by Marty Richards, Producer Circle, New York.

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