David Bar Katz

David Bar Katz is an American screenwriter, playwright, author and director.

Katz was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. David's interest in theater was sparked by stories of his great-grandfather who was a Yiddish theater producer on the Lower East Side of New York City. Katz attended Chestnut Hill Academy and graduated from The Hun School of Princeton, where in 1985 he founded their modern crew program. He attended Williams College where he was a double-major, receiving a BA in Philosophy and Religion. Katz was a Varsity oarsmen at Williams and a member of the '88 Varsity crew which was the first undefeated heavyweight eight in Williams College history. He was also in the '89 Varsity eight that notably defeated Harvard's Varsity at The Henley Royal Regatta. Katz was a member of Cap and Bells, at Williams, the oldest continuously running student-run college theater group in the country.

Before embarking on a writing career Katz was a New York City public school teacher and a theatrical publicist working on Broadway, in the New York cabaret scene (most notably with Rosemary Clooney, Margaret Whiting, Elaine Stritch, Kiki Smith and Harry Belafonte) with The Kirov Ballet and with numerous Off-Broadway theater companies including E.S.T., INTAR,Manhattan Class Company, AMAS, and The Negro Ensemble Company. Katz was the spokesman for Fiddler on the Roof star Topol when he made the controversial move of temporarily leaving the Broadway revival of the show during the first Gulf War to return to Israel as it was weathering scud missile attacks.

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