Editing David Allyn (section)

== Plays ==
Allyn's play, ''Buying In'', was a semi-finalist for the 2017 Eugene O'Neill National Playwrights Conference. His play, ''Commencement'', was selected for the Baltimore Playwrights Festival.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.baltimoresun.com/|archiveurl=https://archive.today/20120730075608/http://weekly.citypaper.com/Events/e3951/ICommencementI|url-status=dead|title=Baltimore Sun: Baltimore breaking news, sports, business, entertainment, weather and traffic|website=Baltimoresun.com|archive-date=30 July 2012|access-date=22 July 2021}}</ref> and won a Writer's Digest award.<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://www.writersdigest.com/2009-annual-competition-winners/annualwinners78_play | title=2009 Stage Play Script Winners|website=Writersdigest.com| date=2009-10-16}}</ref> His play ''Punctuated Equilibrium'' received a staged reading by the Hangar Theatre Lab in [[Ithaca, New York]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://hangartheatre.org/|title=Welcome|website=Hangartheatre.org|access-date=22 July 2021}}</ref> His play ''Writers Colony'' appeared in the Fresh Fruit Festival in New York City,<ref>{{cite news |last=Haagensen |first=Erik |title=Writers Colony |url=http://www.backstage.com/bso/content_display/reviews/ny-theatre-reviews/e3ia13021641b2079d2646d6f9f1f854e99 |work=[[Backstage (magazine)|Backstage]] |date=July 15, 2009 |access-date=October 19, 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120304014421/http://www.backstage.com/bso/content_display/reviews/ny-theatre-reviews/e3ia13021641b2079d2646d6f9f1f854e99 |archive-date=March 4, 2012 }}</ref> and ''Baptizing Adam''<ref>{{cite news |last=Weber |first=Bruce |title=A Study of Lonely Souls, One of Them With a Gun |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/30/movies/theater-review-a-study-of-lonely-souls-one-of-them-with-a-gun.html |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=August 30, 2002 |access-date=October 19, 2009 }}</ref> won the James H. Wilson Award for Best-Full Length Play. According to ''The New York Times'', Allyn is "a wicked observer of self-conscious people at their less than best."<ref name="Morris"/>