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David Landau

DAVID LANDAU

  
Nationality:    USA
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David Landau is a member of the Dramatists Guild and the Mystery Writers of America. An award winning and published playwright, he has also won a few screenwriting awards and written a number of scripts for video and film. He received the Blackburn Award for excEllence in Playwriting for his hard-boiled romantic comedy Deep Six Holiday, which also won the TownSquare Playhouse New Play contest. Mr. Landau is perhaps best known as the inventor of the popular interactive mystery play, having written and produced over 1000 productions internationally for the public and private corporations. Murder at Cafe Noir has enjoyed over one hundred productions throughout the United States and Canada and won the Orange Coast Magazine award for Best Dinner Theater in 1991. Dinner Theaters continue to produce his plays and Samuel French has published five of his works. In film, he has written and directed several interactive ventures, including his festival award winning feature Murder at Cafe Noir and some direct to video DVDs such as the mystery game Stab in the Dark and the children's DVD Story Time Santa, both sold at PartyCity. Most reccently david was the cowriter and co-director on the feature film Dark Tarot produced by DGW Films. David teaches screenwriting, film and Theater at Fairleigh Dickinson University and holds an MFA in Dramatic Writing.

Research:    Member of the Dramatists Guild of America (as at 2015)

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         Altos-Like the Sopranos Only Lower, The         Bullets For Broadway         Contempt Of Court         Deep Six Holiday         Killing Mr Withers         Mumm's The Word         Murder At Cafe Noir         Murderous Crossing         Noir Pointblank         Noir Suspicions
Altos-Like the Sopranos Only Lower, The

Altos-Like the Sopranos Only Lower, The
Interatcive comedy spoof of the popular TV show "the Sopranos"

Notes:
written by David Landau; Music & Lyrics by Nikki Stern

1st Produced:
Cedar Knolls,New Jersey     2001

Organisations:
Murder To Go Theatre

1st Published:

Music:
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Genre:
Mystery

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Bullets For Broadway

Bullets For Broadway
a sequel to the altos, Tony & Toffee alto are back, by popular demand. This time, Toffee wants to be a Broadway star and Tony needs to "clean" some money. So he hires two producers to mount a hit musical - "the Mafia Queen" - starring Toffee. the only catch - the show must be sold out opening night and get great reviews, no matter what it costs - or else! Leave it to Baxter Mallystock and his playwright partner eli Blain. You're invited to the party after opening night to revile as the reviews come in, along with the FBI and a few stray bullets. It's a brand new evening of Mystery, Comedy, Music and great Food which just goes to prove that sometimes when people say they're going to make a hit, they mean it!

Notes:
Book & Lyrics by David Landau, Music by Killer Tracks

1st Produced:
Murder To Go Dinner Theater, Cedar Knolls, New Jersey     01 Mar 2002

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Genre:
Bullets for Broadway

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Contempt Of Court

Contempt Of Court
Contempt of Court is a new non-mystery interactive comedy from the inventor of the interactive dinner theater. It's a typical night at Judge Judy's Peoples Night court where audience members become plaintiffs, defendants, witnesses and jury in some of the most outlandishly funny law suits ever to double cross the bench. This hilarious comedy send up of all those TV court shows proves that some people really have a Contempt of Court.

Notes:
written by David Landau; Music & Lyrics by Nikki Stern. Aka Comedy Court

1st Produced:
Fairfield, Nj     2000

Organisations:
Murder To Go Theatre

1st Published:

Music:
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Genre:
interactive Comedy

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Deep Six Holiday

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He received the Blackburn Award for Excellence in Playwriting for his hard-boiled romantic comedy Deep Six Holiday, which also won the TownSquare Playhouse New Play contest.

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Genre:
romantic comedy

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Killing Mr Withers

Synopsis:
a 1950s Hitchcoak style interactive comedy thriller.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
New Jersey     1990

Organisations:
Murder To Go Theatre

1st Published:
Murder To Go Publishing, NJ, 2002   

Music:
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Genre:
Mystery

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Mumm's The Word

Synopsis:
The day after the St Valentine's Day Massacre a mob boss is murdered at Mumm's Club

Notes:
Music and lyrics by David Landau; Nikki Stern; book by David Landau

1st Produced:
Trocadero, New York     1994

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Genre:
Musical

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Murder At Cafe Noir

Murder At Cafe Noir
forties private detective story features a private investigator who is hired to find a curvaceous runaway

Notes:
book by David Landau, Music and Lyrics by Nikki Stern

1st Produced:
Boston     1989

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Samuel French, NY,    

Music:
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Genre:
Mystery

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Murderous Crossing

Murderous Crossing
the year is 1923 and audience members are passengers on board the HMS Victoria as it crosses the english Channel. the famous Inspector Clurrot has tracked down a homicidal mastermind hiding out on board. Meanwhile, the ship is the vessel of matrimony for the Contessa Follette and John D. Rothchild - a marriage encouraged through financial need and murderous greed. But not everything is as it seems, and it turns out that the english Channel isn't the only thing being crossed. audience members are recruited to stand in for the best man, bridesmaid, mother of the groom, and Father of the bride in this agatha Christie style comic mystery.

Notes:
written by David Landau, Music And Lyrics by Nikki Stern

1st Produced:
Cedar Knolls,New Jersey     1993

Organisations:
Murder To Go Theatre

1st Published:

Music:
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Genre:
interactive Mystery

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Noir Pointblank

Noir Pointblank
A comic tribute to the detective films of Humphrey Bogart. the third story in the "Cafe Noir" series, following Murder at Cafe Noir and Noir Suspicions. No knowledge of the previous plays is required, as each play can stand alone. In Noir Point Blank, "Just Plain" Rick has hired a singer and opened a photo display of "300 yrs of shady business" at the cafe to increase business. To this comes an American detective looking for a murderess but stumbling across a gangster on the lam, a beautiful French historian and a British lawyer with a desire to go night diving. When the murderess ends up dead and the cop is implicated in the murder, it's "Just Plain" Rick who must help him out of the jam by helping him find the real killer. Meanwhile, the gangster has assumed the mortgage for the Cafe Noir and plans on setting up his operations there, and everyone seems to be after something that sunk off the coast of Mustique in 1945. It's a true forties style American mystery with the perfect mix of action, intrigue, humor, and romance.

Notes:
book by David Landau, Music and Lyrics by Nikki Stern

1st Produced:
Murder To Go Dinner Theater, Cedar Knolls, New Jersey     08 Jan 1994

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1st Published:

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Genre:
comedy thriller

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Noir Suspicions

Noir Suspicions
a Comic tribute to the movie Casablanca

Notes:
Sequel to the popular "Murder At Cafe Noir". book by David Landau, Music and Lyrics by Nikki Stern

1st Produced:
New Jersey     1992

Organisations:
Murder To Go Theatre

1st Published:

Music:
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Genre:
Mystery

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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