Dr. David Wright Crawford is a staple in the playwright industry hailing from rural East Texas. His love for simplicity bred by the great outdoors and playful adventures life brings is evident in his scripts. Described as "a new Southern Gentleman of Theatre", his works echo a "Tennessee Williams feeling but touched with the vitality of a Hemingway".

As the chair of the Speech and Theatre Department at Tyler Junior College for 25 years, Dr. Crawford has poured his heart and soul into young individuals ready for molding that have gone on to be artists and practitioners of theatre from New York to California.

Dr. Crawford's plays have been professionally published and featured Off-Broadway as well as winning numerous national and regional awards.