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FELDSHON & SCHWARTZ, LLP || Attorneys At Law
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Theatre projects include representing Tony-award winner Dan Fogler (The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee), Tony nominee Daniel Levine (Anna Karenina), and producers, creatives, talent, or investors for Driving Miss Daisy, Talk Radio, Blast!, Miss Abigail’s Guide to Dating, Mating, and Marriage, Luck, The Band’s Visit, Battlecry: The Musical, Champion, Us (Peter Gabriel), It Must Be Him, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Rooms, Date My Jewish Friend, Le Cabaret Grimm, Heaven & Hell, Cadillac, Liberty: The Musical, Always Patsy Cline, Forever Plaid, Saint Heaven, The Rat Pack is Back!, And Now Ladies and Gentlemen, Miss Judy Garland, Girlfriend (Matthew Sweet), The Mistress Cycle, Caligula: An Ancient Glam Epic, Gork!, History of the Word, 22 Doors, Jonna’s Body, please hold, the New York Musical Theatre Festival (NYMF) since its 2004 inception, and many others. Theatre matters have included all elements of both union and non-union productions, including financing, author option/rights agreements, licensing celebrity recording artists’ and songwriters’ music, and drafting and negotiating agreements for all cast and crew, producers, general managers, directors and choreographers, technical and musical directors, production managers, designers, musicians, corporate and fiscal sponsors, investors, publicists, marketers, advertising agencies, merchandise, venue licenses, and various others. Motion picture projects include Fly Away (SXSW Official Selection; Arizona International Film Festival Best Feature Award and Special Jury Award for Best Performance), Alice Neel (Newport Beach Film Festival Audience Award), Darkon: An American Fantasy (SXSW Audience Award), Jonna’s Body, Please Hold (Edmonton Int’l Film Festival Official Selection), Tying the Knot (premiere - TriBeCa Film Festival), Dangerman, Stuck, and various others. David also represents actor Timothy “Speed” Levitch (Stroker and Hoop, The School of Rock, Scotland, Pa, Waking Life, The Cruise). Music matters include contracts for recording, distribution, songwriting, publishing, producing, personal management, live performance, band partnership, songplugger, promoter, music video, music licensing, etc. Television projects include representation of “reality television” producers, Barry Wood (Trading Spaces, Hidden Potential), and negotiations with networks and producers for scripted and unscripted projects, and with record labels for soundtrack albums, talent attachment agreements, etc. New media clients include DVDTV.com (internet music and theatrical content), and eBroadwayPlays (a web-based financing company). David has also formed numerous companies for clients, and structured and negotiated financing for motion pictures, theatrical productions, and other companies, including numerous private placement securities offerings, joint venture and co-productions, pre-sale financing, and debt agreements. He also handles trademark and copyright registrations. David is a Founder and Director of Business and Legal Affairs for the theatrical booking agency OBB / Off Broadway Booking (Blast!, Footloose, The Wedding Singer, All Shook Up, The Aluminum Show), and handles all corporate, legal, and business matters. As a theatrical producer, his credits include That Championship Season (Kiefer Sutherland, Chris Noth, Jason Patrick, Brian Cox, Jim Gaffigan), A View from the Bridge (Liev Schreiber, Scarlett Johansson), Groundswell (The New Group), Robert Wuhl’s Assume The Position, Judy Gold’s 25 Questions for a Jewish Mother, I Love a Piano (national tour), You Say Tomato, I Say Shut Up, and History of the Word (Vineyard). He served as personal manager for recording artists, including multiple Grammy award winner Christopher Tin, produced and managed the performance group AWD (Burning Man and Macy’s Passport), and developed the original musical Stepping Out of Time (with Robert Watts, producer of initial Star Wars and Indiana Jones trilogies). He executive produced Fly Away, and associate produced Darkon: An American Fantasy and Jonna’s Body, Please Hold, and the short Goodbye New York. He is executive producing a motion picture version of Groundswell. David received a B.A. from the University of Michigan, and a J.D. (cum laude) from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law (Hastings Law Journal, Moot Court Board, Order of the Coif, Thurston Honors Society), and is a graduate of the Commercial Theatre Institute. Bar Admissions: New York, California, and Washington, D.C.
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David F. Schwartz has over 16 years of experience structuring and negotiating complex transactions in the entertainment industry. Clients include theatre and motion picture production companies, recording artists, record labels, talent and modeling agencies, personal managers, music publishers, dance and theatre troupes, actors, directors, choreographers, composers, musicians, music producers, fashion designers, models, photographers, fine artists and animators, new media companies, art galleries, studios, librettists, lyricists, screenwriters, and others.