David Bar-Katz

 

David Bar Katz co-wrote and directed the Broadway production of FREAK, 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 (LAByrinth Theater Company, Barn Series 2006), and will be presented at the Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park next season; 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 Public Theater, December 2008; 2007 LAB Barn Series); and Burning, Burning, Burning, Burning, a play in development with Eric Bogosian, 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).

 

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.