David Pratt is the author of two novels, Looking After Joey (Wilde City) and the Lambda Literary Award-winning Bob the Book (Chelsea Station). David's story collection, My Movie, (Chelsea Station) includes new work and work published in Christopher Street, The James White Review, Velvet Mafia, Lodestar Quarterly, and other periodicals. Recent anthology publications include Paul Alan Fahey's The Other Man, Jerry Wheeler's The Dirty Diner, and Jameson Currier's With. Pratt has directed and performed his theater pieces in New York at the Cornelia Street Cafe, Dixon Place, HERE, the Flea, and the NY International Fringe Festival. In the 1980s, he was the first director of plays by the Canadian playwright John Mighton. Pratt holds an MFA in creative writing from the New School. He is currently working on two more novels, a musical, and a novella for young people.
David Pratt
Studios
Sprague-Smith
David Pratt worked in the Sprague-Smith studio.
In January of 1976, the original Sprague-Smith Studio — built in 1915–1916 and funded by music students of Mrs. Charles Sprague-Smith of the Veltin School — was destroyed by fire. Redesigned by William Gnade, Sr., a Peterborough builder, the fieldstone structure was rebuilt the same year from the foundation up, reusing the original fieldstone. A few…