Biography

David has worked professionally in the entertainment business since 1978, beginning as a theater master electric and a film camera assistant. He became a film electric and camera assistant and did off-off Broadway theater lighting design in NYC before joining NABET 15 as a camera assistant and electric, working primarily on TV commercials and made for TV movies. Soon He became the lighting director for Exxon Corporate Video and became a corporate video cameraman and cinematographer. He joined IATSE 52 and worked on TV shows and movies but soon took a ten year break from the film/video biz to open a theater company and help raise his family. He created the world's first interactive theater company "Murder To Go" and invented the interactive mystery play, gaining international press. During that time he continued to work in corporate video and even produced his own direct to consumer videos and the world's first interactive feature film as well as writing plays and corporate presentations that have been produced worldwide. He has seven plays published and has won several playwriting and screenwriting awards and had several screenplays optioned. He discovered he enjoyed teaching and went back to grad school for an MFA in screenwriting. He returned to corporate video (as a gaffer, cameraman and LD) in 2000, began teaching college in 2002 and started spending summers and winter breaks back in feature films and TV shows as an electric and gaffer, and working as a Director of Photography on low budget films. He has also continued to work as a theater lighting designer.
- IMDb mini biography by: David Landau