David Boles

For more than four decades, David Boles has preserved the truth by writing, directing, designing, broadcasting, streaming, publishing, editing, teaching, acting, and producing moments of knowing. His work spans the live stage, radio, television, the printed page, cinema, education, and the internet.

David has won worldwide awards for his lifelong moral duty to the examined life. He holds an MFA from Columbia University and maintains memberships in the Dramatists Guild, Authors Guild, and PEN America. His commitment to authorship means full responsibility: writing, directing, and producing rather than fragmenting creative control.

Born in Lincoln, Nebraska, Boles began as a child actor, winning awards for singing, acting, and dancing. During his teen years, he hosted the Unique Youth radio show on KFOR-AM 1240 and KFRX-FM X103, and served as the weekly Teenaged Movie Critic for KOLN/KGIN-TV's Kidding Around program.

During his award-winning college career, David shifted into behind-the-scenes work in television, film, and live stage as writer, director, and producer. Original productions include The Westborough Crusaders television series for Cablevision, The Weeping Water Cafe (first produced on stage, then adapted for KPTM-TV), A Stone's Throw produced by the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Department of Theatre Arts & Dance, and the award-winning art house film Watershed.

He was the youngest undergraduate associate editor for the Prairie Schooner literary quarterly published by the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and his short story McDugan's Barn won the Mari Sandoz Prairie Schooner Award for Fiction in 1984.

David has consulted for Google, New York University, CBS Television, American Express, the City University of New York, Microsoft, Netscape, New Riders, ABC Pictures, the Nebraska ETV Network, Gillette Communications, and numerous other organizations. Working as a Script Doctor, his clients have said, "David Boles is Abe Burrows without the Pulitzers!"