David Feldshuh

David Mark Feldshuh (born January 31, 1944, New York City) is an American playwright, director, actor, educator, and board-certified emergency physician. He is best known for the play Miss Evers' Boys, based on the Tuskegee syphilis experiment, which was a finalist for the 1992 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.

Miss Evers’ Boys Miss Evers' Boys was developed at the Minneapolis’ Illusion Theater and Robert Redford’s Sundance Institute, receiving the New American Play Award sponsored by the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation. The 1997 HBO film adaptation of Miss Evers' Boys (adapted by Walter Bernstein) was nominated for 11 Emmy Awards (winning four) and two Golden Globe Awards (winning one). Miss Evers’ Boys was recognized as Best Picture and given the President’s Award for television presentations addressing vital social issues. The film also received the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Television Movie, the CableACE Award for Best Picture, and two Golden Globe Awards. Public attention surrounding the film contributed to a formal apology by U.S. President Bill Clinton to survivors of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study in 1997.

His work includes the 1994 documentary Susceptible to Kindness, which won a CINE Golden Eagle Award and an Intercom Gold Plaque.

Feldshuh practices medicine at Cayuga Medical Center and teaches in Cornell University's Department of Performing and Media Arts.