David Curran(IV)

Born in Brooklyn in 1949 and adopted by David and Mary Curran at age one. David began seriously writing as teen after his first date at age 14 told him he should be a poet. His first attempt at film was in the summer of his junior year in high school but a lack of funds kept the project called "The Tonu" which he had written the script for, cast, and done location work for, from completion. He earned an MFA in creative writing at the University of Montana and on a return to the university for a degree in interpersonal communication was appointed editor-in-chief of the university's literary magazine CutBank. It was then that he met Wiseguy series producer David Burke, who asked him and co-writer (and fellow student) David Braden to write the story for the episode "People Do It All The Time." This lead to a work-study job that gave him training in video production. When his father died he used his inheritance to buy filmmaking equipment which led to the making of "The Mailbox" and his feature length film "Knaptid: Four Day After The First Abduction."