David Feldshuh is a physician

Physician

A physician is a health care provider who practices the profession of medicine, which is concerned with promoting, maintaining or restoring human health through the study, diagnosis, and treatment of disease, injury and other physical and mental impairments...

, playwright

Playwright

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, and author

Author

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. His 1992 play Miss Evers' Boys

Miss Evers' Boys

Miss Evers' Boys is a 1997 HBO television film starring Alfre Woodard and Laurence Fishburne, based on the true story of the decades-long Tuskegee experiment. It was directed by Joseph Sargent and adapted from the 1992 stage play written by David Feldshuh...

, based on the Tuskegee syphilis experiment, was a finalist for the 1992 Pulitzer Prize for Drama

Pulitzer Prize for Drama

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. The 1997 HBO adaptation of Miss Evers' Boys (adapted by Walter Bernstein) was nominated for eleven Emmy Award

Emmy Award

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s (winning four) and two Golden Globe Award

Golden Globe Award

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s (winning one).

Feldshuh's work also includes the 1994 documentary Susceptible to Kindness, which won a CINE

CINE

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 Golden Eagle Award and an Intercom Gold Plaque

Chicago International Film Festival

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In addition to practicing medicine, Feldshuh teaches theatre and serves as artistic director for Cornell University

Cornell University

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's Department of Theatre, Film, and Dance.