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David Goldsmith is an award-winning playwright, lyricist, and storyteller.

On Broadway, he was billed as “Script Consultant” for Motown The Musical, which he co-wrote with Motown founder Berry Gordy. Nominated for four Tony Awards®, the show ran for two-and-a-half years on Broadway, three years in London’s West End, and toured the US and UK. In London, he wrote lyrics for Imagine This, later filmed for PBS.

Off-Broadway, he was Story Consultant for Invisible Thread (2nd Stage Theatre, Diane Paulus, dir.). In LA, he co-wrote Having It All, a multiple-Ovation-nominated musical. Currently, his musical Masada 1942 is in repertory at Israel’s National Theatre.

His TV and film credits include Disney Channel’s Descendants 3 (“My Once Upon A Time”) and original lyrics for Disney’s Wish Upon A Christmas, A Tale Of Two Witches, and Mickey and Friends Trick or Treats holiday movies, all three of which were nominated for multiple Emmy and Kidscreen Awards and won one each. He also wrote Up Against the Wind, the iconic song underscoring Queen Latifah’s climactic scene in Set It Off.

Recently, David made his Carnegie Hall debut writing, curating and writing (Lynn Ahrens-approved) parody lyrics for Thirty Years of Stephen (Flaherty). His musical Fallout (NAMT Theatre Festival 2023) explores a Ukrainian family’s escape from Soviet anti-Semitism.

As Co-Founder and Artistic Director of Virtual Stage Lab, he develops filmed musicals, including Ribbit, Five Women At An Airport, and My Improbable Sisters, all streaming on YouTube.

His current projects include Good Man (about Las Vegas mob attorney/mayor Oscar Goodman), a reimagined Miracle on 34th Street, and Dickens' Little Dorrit (co-written with John Caird and Paul Gordon).

His plays Hotel Buzz, American Guernica, and I Ragazzi (co-written with his daughter Madeleine) are available through Broadway Licensing and Dramatists Play Service (www.dramatists.com).

David lives in Jersey City with his wife, Broadway’s Bryonha Marie.