Burning Blue

Burning Blue
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Written by	D.M.W. Greer
Characters	Lieutenant Daniel Lynch Lieutenant Matthew Blackwood Lieutenant William Stephensen Charlie "Boner" Trumbo Special Agent John Cokely Admiral Lynch
Date premiered	August 24, 1995 The King's Head Theatre, London, England
Original language	English
Genre	Drama
Setting	United States, 1992

Lieutenant Daniel Lynch
Lieutenant Matthew Blackwood
Lieutenant William Stephensen
Charlie "Boner" Trumbo
Special Agent John Cokely

Burning Blue is an American play written by D.M.W. Greer (born August 23, 1957), based on his experiences as a U.S. Navy aviator. Playwright Greer wrote about a U.S. Navy accident investigation which became a gay witch hunt during the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" era.

Greer's father was Daniel David Milne Willard, a test pilot at the United States Naval Test Pilot School. His mother, Suzanne, daughter of the late Navy test pilot Seymour Anderson Johnson and Alice Virginia Kelley, was a homemaker. In 1965, after his mother remarried, to Vice Admiral Howard E. Greer, D.M.W. Greer began a lengthy period of 20 different schools in 17 cities, before graduating from Radford High School in Honolulu, Hawaii in 1975.

Greer subsequently began his university education at the United States Naval Academy (class of 1980). Transferring to Oregon State University, Greer earned a bachelor's degree in architecture/landscape, and on the same day, he was commissioned an ensign in the U.S. Navy. Earning his wings in 1982 at Pensacola, Florida, he reported to an anti-submarine warfare helicopter squadron in San Diego, California, where he flew the Kaman SH-2 Seasprite.