David Ezell is an American filmmaker, actor, and writer whose work bridges performance, film scholarship, and psychology. After early experience in regional theater and film, he returned to acting in 2019, training at the Stella Adler Studio of Acting and studying Meisner technique with James Price, as well as with Deena Levy and Jack Waltzer.
In 2024, his play The Great American Scream Machine was selected from hundreds of submissions for production in the SOOP Annual Play Competition, marking his emergence as a produced playwright and earning him membership in the Dramatists Guild. That same year, he co-founded Camelback Films.
His award-winning screenplay Occam’s Beard (2025) earned Best Short Script honors at the Big Apple Film Festival, Florence Film Awards, Hollywood Gold Awards...
David Ezell is an American filmmaker, actor, and writer whose work bridges performance, film scholarship, and psychology. After early experience in regional theater and film, he returned to acting in 2019, training at the Stella Adler Studio of Acting and studying Meisner technique with James Price, as well as with Deena Levy and Jack Waltzer.
In 2024, his play The Great American Scream Machine was selected from hundreds of submissions for production in the SOOP Annual Play Competition, marking his emergence as a produced playwright and earning him membership in the Dramatists Guild. That same year, he co-founded Camelback Films.
His award-winning screenplay Occam’s Beard (2025) earned Best Short Script honors at the Big Apple Film Festival, Florence Film Awards, Hollywood Gold Awards, and Tokyo Film Awards, among others. His feature-length documentary Paper Moon Rise, examining the cultural legacy of Peter Bogdanovich’s Paper Moon, is slated for release in August 2026.