David Klass
David Klass has written more than forty feature screenplays for the major Hollywood Studios including Kiss the Girls (starring Morgan Freeman), Desperate Measures (starring Michael Keaton), Walking Tall (starring The Rock), and Emperor (starring Tommy Lee Jones).
In the world of TV, David wrote the Showtime movie In the Time of the Butterflies (starring Salma Hayek, based on the novel by Julia Alvarez) and Runaway Virus (starring Paige Turco, based on an article by Malcolm Gladwell), and has worked as a writer and producer on Law & Order: Criminal Intent (starring Jeff Goldblum) and developed numerous shows for the networks including Austen’s Razor (developed by CBS in 2014, ABC in 2015).
David has also written twenty novels, including most recently Out Of Time (Dutton/Penguin, 2020), which was optioned for a movie by Netflix with David doing the adaptation.
Here, we talk with Assistant Professor of Professional Practice in Film and Theatre David Klass about the recent Netflix adaptation of his thriller novel Out of Time, what inspires him to write, and how COVID-19 has affected his teaching.
2020 is proving to be an eventful year for faculty member and co-head of the TV Writing concentration David Klass.