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), for which star John Leguizamo won the 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 (LAByrinth Theater Company, Barn Series 2006); and Philip Roth in Khartoum, which examines the destructive power of truth on husbands and wives during an intimate evening with friends (performed at The Public Theater as part of LAByrinth Theater Company’s 2007 Barn Series.)
Other current projects include: a television drama centered around the Witness Protection Program (Spike Lee attached to direct/produce); The Man Who Couldn’t Forget, a screenplay in development at Columbia Pictures (Sam Raimi/Josh Donen producing); The Turing Test, at Sony-BMG Pictures, an action/mystery film set in the world of online gaming, which Katz is developing with Will Wright (creator of "SimCity" and "Spore"); and a film project in development with Duran Duran (at Sony-BMG).
Katz’s novel, The Gods of Time, about a group of Israeli commandos who travel back in time and end up in Auschwitz, will be published by Crown in 2009.