David Lovejoy

Trap Door credits

Acting
  • Mother Courage and her Children (Repertory cast)
  • 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

The spotlight of recognition must go to Artistic Producer David Lovejoy as the title character of Galileo. Lovejoy’s performance is a combination of a contortionist and a Michaelangelo statue, giving the embodiment of Galileo’s passion and zeal to prove his scientific theories correct.

Emily Werner, Werner’s Theatre Reviews – HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

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)

…played with Brechtian finesse by Trap Door’s David Lovejoy…Lovejoy’s performance is intense, and a remarkable achievement

Bill Esler,  Buzz Center Stage – HIGHLY RECOMMENDED