David Singer(XIII)
- Composer
- Director
- Writer
David Singer is a writer, filmmaker, musician and composer based in Chicago.
His debut short film ADVANTAGE: WEINBERG was selected for the Emerging Filmmaker Showcase at the Cannes Film Festival and screened at many prestigious festivals around the US and a couple of janky ones.
After taking a bunch of pretty depressing meetings, David went back to Chicago and wrote and directed his first feature film, IMPERFECTIONS, a diamond caper comedy set in Chicago's Jeweler's Row. The film stars Virginia Kull, Zach McGowan, Ed Begley, Jr., Marilu Henner, and Chelcie Ross. The movie screened at the Austin Film Festival and The Chicago International Film Festival (among others), and The Hollywood Reporter said, ""A shaggy charm permeates David Singer's comic thriller about an aspiring actress who gets more than she bargained for upon taking a job as a diamond courier... The dialogue is frequently fast and funny... Imperfections marks an impressive debut effort from its tyro director." These nice reviews made a big impression on people David went to high school with.
David's anthology fiction podcast series INCOMING was released by Wondery+ in 2024. Loosely based on the real-life 2018 false alarm missile alert that freaked out a bunch of normally relaxed Hawaiians, Incoming stars David Pasquesi, Tracy Letts, Mary Elizabeth Ellis, Paul Adelstein, Amy Landecker, Matt Walsh, and is the only known project that includes both Marilu Henner and Bob Nastanovich from Pavement.
David is also a musician and composer who has released six albums and played hundreds of shows around the world to crowds ranging from 12 to 5000 people. He is also a composer whose work includes AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY (winner of 5 Tony Awards, where he got to meet NBA legend Steve Nash), and the Broadway revival of OF MICE AND MEN, which still has what we call in the screenwriting business a "down ending".
His debut short film ADVANTAGE: WEINBERG was selected for the Emerging Filmmaker Showcase at the Cannes Film Festival and screened at many prestigious festivals around the US and a couple of janky ones.
After taking a bunch of pretty depressing meetings, David went back to Chicago and wrote and directed his first feature film, IMPERFECTIONS, a diamond caper comedy set in Chicago's Jeweler's Row. The film stars Virginia Kull, Zach McGowan, Ed Begley, Jr., Marilu Henner, and Chelcie Ross. The movie screened at the Austin Film Festival and The Chicago International Film Festival (among others), and The Hollywood Reporter said, ""A shaggy charm permeates David Singer's comic thriller about an aspiring actress who gets more than she bargained for upon taking a job as a diamond courier... The dialogue is frequently fast and funny... Imperfections marks an impressive debut effort from its tyro director." These nice reviews made a big impression on people David went to high school with.
David's anthology fiction podcast series INCOMING was released by Wondery+ in 2024. Loosely based on the real-life 2018 false alarm missile alert that freaked out a bunch of normally relaxed Hawaiians, Incoming stars David Pasquesi, Tracy Letts, Mary Elizabeth Ellis, Paul Adelstein, Amy Landecker, Matt Walsh, and is the only known project that includes both Marilu Henner and Bob Nastanovich from Pavement.
David is also a musician and composer who has released six albums and played hundreds of shows around the world to crowds ranging from 12 to 5000 people. He is also a composer whose work includes AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY (winner of 5 Tony Awards, where he got to meet NBA legend Steve Nash), and the Broadway revival of OF MICE AND MEN, which still has what we call in the screenwriting business a "down ending".
