David Epstein

David Epstein wrote the screenplay for the film “Palookaville,” which had its U.S. premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in 1996. The film won Best First or Second Feature by a Director at the Venice Film Festival in 1995. “Palookaville” opened in the fall of 1996. Mr. Epstein's EXACT CHANGE was produced in London at the Lyric Hammersmith Theatre in 1994. It was seen in earlier forms in Chicago at the Immediate Theatre, Princeton's McCarter Theatre, and began life at the Yale Rep. His plays have been produced Off-Broadway, at regional theatres across the U.S., and abroad. Yale Rep first produced DARKROOM, THEY TOLD ME THAT YOU CAME THIS WAY, and CLUTCH. SHADES was staged at South Coast Repertory, while BEDROCK and MINE started at Stamford's Hartman Theatre and the Actors Theatre of Louisville, respectively. Mr. Epstein is the author (with composer Al Carmines) of the musicals WANTED and THE BONUS ARMY, first produced at the Judson Poet's Theatre and the Cherry Lane Theatre in New York. WANTED was revived by the Woolly Mammoth Theatre in Washington, DC, in 1995. His adaptation of Edgar Allen Poe's “Murders In The Rue Morgue,” starring George C. Scott, was seen on CBS-TV, which also produced “China Rose” (starring Mr. Scott), “Nairobi Affair,” and “Thin Ice.” His plays PENNSYLVANIA LYNCH and FANS OF THE KOSKO SHOW were commissioned and produced for public television by KCET-LA. He contributed a memoir to the collection “Fathers and Sons,” published by Serpent's Tail Press. A graduate of the Yale School of Drama, Mr. Epstein lives on Long Island with his wife, Kate, and their three children.