David Rafailedes is an American writer, director, and producer from Ohio who lives in New York City. He wrote Cellino v. Barnes , a broadway play about Cellino & Barnes, with Mike B. Breen. [1] The show was positively received. [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] Originally scheduled to run through October 13, 2024, it was repeatedly extended with its run ending on March 30, 2025. [7] [8]
Rafailedes was a 2024 Sundance Screenwriters Fellow and enrolled in the dual MBA/MFA program at NYU. [9] He has also won the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation's Feature Film Production Grant and the Sundance Institute's Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship. [9] He was a Buckeyes cross country athlete at Ohio State University. [10]