David Fishelson

David J. Dave Fishelson is an American producer, playwright, and director for film, theatre, television and radio, based in Manhattan since 1982. He is best known for being the lead producer of Goldas Balcony, the longestrunning onewoman show in Broadway history and for being the founderproducer of Manhattan Ensemble Theatre , an awardwinning OffBroadway theatre company located in SoHo, New York City. As a filmmaker, his work has been broadcast on PBS, exhibited theatrically, and selected forinternational film festivals . As a theatre producer and playwright , his work has garnerednominations from the Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle, Obie, Drama League, Lortel, Blackburn Prize and Touring Broadway awards organizations, while landing on Time Out NYs yearend Best in Theatre list ondifferent occasions.

Fishelson was born in Wooster, Ohio to a Jewish family. His mother, Julia Fishelson , was a womens shelter activist and art center founder, and his father Joseph E. Fishelson was an entrepreneur, inventor and college professor. David Fishelson attended Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts , and the University of WisconsinMadison where his mentor was film scholar David Bordwell before attending one year of graduate school at the University of Paris III Sorbonne Nouvelle . In Paris, in 1978, he met Zoe Zinman, who would become his collaborator on the feature film City News . After Paris, he moved to New York City in 1979.

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