David Bar Katz
David Bar Katz co-wrote and directed the Broadway production of FREAK, which was nominated for two Tony Awards (including Best Play), and earned Katz an Emmy nomination for the HBO presentation of the play (directed by Spike Lee), and star John Leguizamo an Emmy for Best Actor in a Comedy Special.
Katz co-created and was a head writer for the Emmy-nominated Fox TV series “House of Buggin’,” which was the first all-Latino comedy show in network history.
Other theater projects include: The History of Invulnerability, which dramatizes the relationship between Superman and his creator, Jerry Siegel (World Premiere at Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, 2010; LAByrinth Theater Company, Barn Series, 2006); Philip Roth in Khartoum, which examines the destructive power of truth on husbands and wives during an intimate evening with friends (Developmental Production at the LAByrinth Theater Company, December 2008; Barn Series, 2007); Burning, Burning, Burning, Burning, in which a small village is thrown into chaos when they are coerced into breaking the laws they hold dear to hasten the End of Days (LAByrinth Theater Company, Barn Series, 2008; Red Bull Theater’s Obie Award winning “Revelation Readings” series, 2010); What A Way To Go, a tragic-comedy about a man whose obsession with his death is destroying his life; not because of neurosis, but because the moment of his death literally keeps appearing before him (New York Playwrights Lab, 2009); and The Atmosphere of Memory (LAByrinth Theater Company, Barn Series, 2009).
He is currently collaborating with Will Wright (Sim City/Spore) on a film set in the world of online gaming, writing a musical theater version of the film, The Hebrew Hammer, and adapting a Graham Greene novel.
He is a member of New York’s LAByrinth Theater Company and was a member of the only undefeated crew team in Williams College history.