David Petrarca

David Petrarca
Born	November 10, 1965 Warwick, Rhode Island, U.S.
Nationality	American
Occupation	Television director, television producer
Years active	1985–present

David Petrarca (born November 10, 1965 in Warwick, Rhode Island)^[1] is an American director and producer of theatre, television and film.

He was director at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago from 1988 until 2005. Recent work as a director includes HBO's Boardwalk Empire, Game of Thrones, Big Love, Hung, and True Blood as well as Marco Polo, Jessica Jones and numerous other projects for Netflix. He worked as an executive producer on *Those Who Kill, ABC series Eli Stone and the Lifetime series Drop Dead Diva.

He was the recipient of a TCG/NEA Director Fellowship and has served as associate artistic director for the Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park and the Chelsea Theatre Centre in New York City, and on the NEA Theatre Panel.

He has taught for University of North Carolina School of the Arts, the O'Neill Center and Northwestern University and has developed new work for New York Stage and Film and the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference.

In 1996, Petrarca was chosen by the Chicago Tribune as a "Chicagoan of the Year".

In 2006, he completed filming Save the Last Dance 2 for Paramount Pictures. As of mid-2014, he was working on the screenplay of Wendy MacLeod's Schoolgirl Figure, and a film adaptation of David Lindsay-Abaire's Fuddy Meers.

Selected works

As film director

• Save the Last Dance 2 (2006)

As television executive producer

• Those Who Kill (2014)
• Drop Dead Diva (2009)
• Eli Stone (2008–2009)
• Everwood (2004–2005)

As television director

Big Love (8 episodes) Boardwalk Empire (1 episode) Brothers & Sisters (1 episode) Cupid (1 episode) Dawson's Creek (7 episodes) Dirty Sexy Money (1 episode) Drop Dead Diva (3 episodes) Early Edition (unknown episodes) Eli Stone (7 episodes) Everwood (12 episodes) Felicity (1 episode) Full Circle (2 episodes) Game of Thrones (2 episodes) Gilmore Girls (1 episode) Glory Days Gracepoint (2 episodes) Hemlock Grove (1 episode) Hung (2 episodes)[2][3] Jack & Bobby (4 episodes) Jack & Jill (4 episodes) Jessica Jones (2 episodes) Joan of Arcadia (1 episode)

"Knightfall" (2 episodes) Life on Mars (1 episode) Magic City (2 episodes) "The Man In The High Castle" (1 episode) Marco Polo (4 episodes) Nashville (1 episode) No Ordinary Family (1 episode) Nothing Sacred (1 episode) Pan Am (1 episode) Pasadena (1 episode) Political Animals (2 episodes) Popular (1 episode) Powers (2 episodes) Six Degrees (2 episodes) State of Mind (1 episode) Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip (1 episode) Summerland (1 episode) To Have & to Hold (1 episode) Those Who Kill (3 episodes) True Blood (3 episodes) Tyrant (2 episodes) "Wayward Pines" (1 episode)

As theatre director

Away The Beard of Avon Current Events by David Marshall Grant ^† Dark Rapture Deep in a Dream of You ^† Design for Living Dinah Was ^† Down the Shore by Tom Donaghy ^† Fuddy Meers by David Lindsay-Abaire ^† The House of Martin Guerre ^† Juvenilia by Wendy MacLeod ^† Kimberly Akimbo by David Lindsay-Abaire ^† Light Up The Sky Lloyd's Prayer by Kevin Kling Lovers and Friends by Michael John LaChiusa ^† Marvin's Room (Directed the premiere in New York City as well as the West End of London)

A Midsummer Night's Dream Mill Fire by Sally Nemeth ^† Northeast Local by Tom Donaghy ^† Nothing Sacred by George F. Walker Peacekeeper by Keith Reddin Red by Chay Yew ^† Richard II Sin by Wendy MacLeod ^† The Skin of Our Teeth Somebody Else's House by David Cale ^† Three Postcards by Craig Carnelia and Craig Lucas The Tooth of Crime by Sam Shepard The Visit The Water Children by Wendy MacLeod ^† A Year with Frog and Toad on Broadway (Tony Award Nomination for Best Musical)

^† indicates a premiere.

References

1. David Petrarca Biography (1962-), Film Reference
2. HBO. "Hung episode "The Pickle Jar" synopsis". Retrieved July 13, 2010.
3. HBO. "Hung episode "Tucson Is the Gateway to Dick or This Is Not Sexy" synopsis". Retrieved July 13, 2010.

External links

• David Petrarca at the Internet Movie Database
• David Petrarca at the Internet Broadway Database
  
• David Petrarca at the Internet Theatre Database