David Landau is a screenwriter and filmmaker. His screenplay ''Seance'' won Niad Management's Be A Hollywood Screenwriter competition, and his pitch for a television program based on his company, "Murder to Go," won the 2003 People's Pilot contest. He won the Blackburn Award for Excellence in Playwriting for his comedy ''Deep Six Holiday''. With the publication of his ''The Mystery Express'' (1982), Landau is most often credited as the "inventor" of the interactive murder mystery. The play ''Murder at Café Noir'' is his most popular, having been performed over one hundred times across the United States. In 1991, ''Murder at Café Noir'' was awarded the

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award for Best Dinner Theater. Both ''Murder at Café Noir'' and its sequel ''Noir Suspicions'' are published by

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. Landau received his bachelor's degree at

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and his MFA in Screenwriting from

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.Creative Writing Faculty :: Fairleigh Dickinson University
/ref> He currently teaches screenwriting at

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Murder mystery plays

* ''Bullets for Broadway'' * ''Contempt of Court'' * ''Deadly Briefcase'' * ''Killing Mr. Withers'' * ''Mumm's the word'' * ''Murder at Café Noir'' * ''Murderous Crossings'' * ''Murder Point Blank'' * ''Murder: The Next Generation'' * ''Noir Suspicions'' * ''Spirits of Suscicion'' * ''Virginia Jones and the Curse of Nergal'' * ''Virginia Jones and the Inca Revenge'' * ''The Altos: Like the Sopranos, only lower''

References

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Murder To Go: Interactive Murder Mystery

External links

David Landau's web site
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