David Feldshuh has been artistic director at the Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts at Cornell University since 1984.
His play, Miss Evers' Boys, has been produced throughout the U.S., received the New American Play award, was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize and won seven Emmy awards as an HBO movie. He co-produced the video Susceptible to Kindness, for which he interviewed observers as well as survivors of the Tuskegee syphilis study. In 1994 the video won three awards: the Cine Golden Eagle, the Intercom Gold Plaque, and the International Health and Medical Film Festival award.
David's television script Harmony was written for an educational television project dedicated to teaching science to children and sponsored in part by the National Science Foundation. His short story "Are You Satisfied, Thomas Becket?" was recently published in a collection of stories by physician-writers.
Although full-time at Cornell, David continues to practice medicine and lectures frequently on the subject of human experimentation and the use of theatre in exploring important social issues. He trained as an actor at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts, is a member of Actor's Equity, and began his career at The Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis where he also served as an Associate Director.
David Feldshuh received his M.D. and Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota.
What has taken me most by surprise when I look back on my life is that I never could have predicted that I would be working at Cornell University as a professor in theater. When I started off I was going to be an actor and that is all I was going to do. And then, I was going to perhaps be a psychi...(Full transcript available to logged in subscribers.).
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