David Lovejoy

Trap Door credits

Acting
  • Piotr / Decomposed Theatre, Episode 5
  • First Assistant, Journalist, Krug Jr. / The White Plague
  • D’Eon / Monsieur d’Eon is a Woman 
  • Young Woman / The Old Woman Broods 
  • Spacebabe / Childhood Beauty
  • Dramaturg, Understudy / The Killer 

Ensemble member, donor relations manager, box office manager, and social media manager David Lovejoy (ze/hir/hirs) has been a member of the Trap Door community since 2018. Originally from Marblehead, Massachusetts, ze received a BA in absurdist theater from the University of Chicago. Find more information on hir website.

Lovejoy’s favorite line from a Trap Door production:

“You can go to hell, Dr. Babyass!” —Sigelius, The White Plague

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

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

Justin Hayford, Chicago Reader

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