David Lovejoy

Trap Door credits

Acting
  • Medea Material (Repertory cast)
  • Nana (2024)
  • The Pragmatists
  • Bowie in Warsaw Chicago, (Chicago, New York)
  • The Ugly One
  • The Martyrdom of Peter Ohey (Repertory cast, “Circus Manager” – Chicago, “Tax Collector” – New York)
  • Queen C
  • Dinner with Marx
  • And Away We Stared
  • Decomposed Theatre, Episode 5
  • The White Plague
  • The Killer 
  • Childhood Beauty (Trap Open)
  • The Old Woman Broods 
  • Monsieur d’Eon is a Woman 
Directing
  • Joan and the Fire (Assistant Director)
Properties Design
  • Mother Courage and her Children

Marketing Director

David Lovejoy (ze/hir/hirs) is an ensemble member at Trap Door, and also the Marketing Director and Associate Managing Director. When David is not acting or producing at Trap Door, ze is a Dungeons and Dragons Dungeon Master extraordinaire. Ze received a BA from UChicago in Absurdist Theatre, and is a graduate of the School at Steppenwolf and the Academy at Black Box.

Gallery

David Lovejoy’s scintillating and multi-faceted Chevalier, fittingly, seems both of the world of the court and apart from it. Lovejoy (who uses the pronouns “ze/hir/hirs”) brings an almost zen-like quality at times to the role, but also imbues the Chevalier with a rock-ribbed moral conscience.

Kerry Reid, The Chicago Tribune (about Monsieur d’Eon is a Woman)

David Lovejoy is terrific.

Bill Esler, Buzz Center Stage (about Nana)

As d’Éon, the understated David Lovejoy is a block of noble stability in a world gone haywire.

Justin Hayford, Chicago Reader (about Monsieur d’Eon is a Woman)

Lovejoy brings a sense of earnestness and grit to d’Eon that makes the consequences of peoples’ casual lack of compassion much more serious.

Jacob David, Around the Town Chicago (about Monsieur d’Eon is a Woman)

The cast is excellent…

Nancy Bishop, Third Coast Review (about Bowie in Warsaw)

His boss, played with sociopathic aplomb by a freakishly menacing David Lovejoy…

Ted C. Fishman, New City Stage (about The Ugly One)