David J. Fishelson (born July 24, 1956) is an American producer, playwright, and director for film, theatre, television and radio,[2] based in Manhattan since 1982.

[1][12] Shot on a small budget,[3][12] City News found success in 1983-4 by being selected for the Film Festivals of Atlanta, Edinburgh, Houston, Munich, Florence, Athens, Santa Fe, Seattle, Vancouver, Dallas, Göteborg and Antwerp[14] — winning "Best Dramatic Film" at Atlanta, "Best Low-Budget Feature" at Houston, and "Best Feature (Narrative)" at Athens.

[15][28] After its tour of festivals, City News was exhibited in U.S. theaters by film distributor Cinecom Pictures,[13][29] and was nationally broadcast on the third season (1984) of the PBS television series American Playhouse.

"[11][42] From 1999–2007, Fishelson's MET featured several well-known stars in its productions, including Jim Parsons (CBS's The Big Bang Theory),[43] Mireille Enos (AMC's The Killing),[44] Robert Prosky (NBC's Hill Street Blues),[45] Valerie Harper (CBS's The Mary Tyler Moore Show),[46] and Tovah Feldshuh (NBC's Holocaust).

Its first offering this season, Hank Williams: Lost Highway, about the troubled country singer and composer, was hailed and quickly transferred following an extended run.

[10] After lead producing both the Broadway show and its tour, Fishelson was invited to become a Tony Award voter, a status he retains to the present day.

[14] Critic John Simon, in his New York Magazine review of the Broadway version, wrote that "Golda's Balcony is the perfect merging of playwright, actress and character.

[77] His future, stated projects for the theatre include an adaptation of a "well-known French New Wave film for the stage", and "an original play about the Holocaust called The Hamlet Syndrome".