David Friedman

From We Can Be Kind to Listen To My Heart, Help Is On The Way, We Live on Borrowed Time, Trust The Wind, I'll Be Here With You and hundreds more, David Friedman has written songs of inspiration, love and hope that take on new emotional meaning in these challenging times. With 5 Broadway shows, his own Off Broadway Show , 8 Disney Films, 3 television series and recordings by such artists as Diana Ross, Barry Manilow and Nancy LaMott to his credit, David has, in recent years, come to realize that his true mission in life is to help heal and enlighten people in whatever ways he can. With this in mind, David recently wrote a book entitled The Thought Exchange – A Practical Method of Moving Beyond "Positive Thinking" and spends a great deal of time travelling around the country lecturing, giving concerts and teaching Thought Exchange principles in workshops and private sessions.

CAREER HIGHLIGHTS

With multi-platinum recordings, Broadway shows, Disney Animated Films, Television scores and a teaching and lecturing career that spans the nation, David Friedman is truly someone who has made a major mark in all areas of show business.

From We Can Be Kind to Listen to My Heart, Help is on the Way, We Live on Borrowed Time, Trust The Wind and I'll Be Here With You, David has written songs of inspiration, love and hope that take on new emotional meaning in these challenging times.

After spending several years conducting musicals on Broadway, including Grease, Joseph & The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, and Song and Dance, David went to Hollywood where he was the Conductor and Vocal Arranger on such Disney classics as Beauty & The Beast, Aladdin, Pocahontas and The Hunchback of Notre Dame. This led to David's writing music and lyrics for Disney's Aladdin and the King of Thieves, scoring three animated television series (Happy Ness, Sky Dancers & Dragon Flyz) and the film Trick, and a 13 year stint as Music Supervisor and Vocal Arranger of Broadway's Beauty & The Beast.

Most recently, David has been writing musicals for Broadway. His show Chasing Nicolette, written with Peter Kellogg, has had three highly successful productions, at The Westport Country Playhouse in Connecticut, The Prince Theater in Philadelphia and the Village Theatre in Seattle, and won the Barrymore Award in Philadelphia for best music. It is slated to open on Broadway next season.

After a critically acclaimed production in Seattle, David’s show Stunt Girl, about the life of Nellie Bly, also written with Peter Kellogg, was just presented at a staged reading in New York and is now preparing for an out of town run before a Broadway opening.

A new Kellogg/Friedman show, Lincoln in Love, about the early life of Abraham Lincoln, written for the Bi-Centennial of Lincoln’s birth, had its first reading at Ford’s Theater in Washington, D.C. and is currently being developed at the Village Theatre in Seattle.

And a fourth show by the Kellogg/Friedman team, Desperate Measures, a country and western version of Shakespeare’s Measure For Measure, was an award winner at the New York Musical Theater Festival, has been successfully produced in theaters around the country.

David’s Christmas Oratorio King Island Christmas, written with Deborah Brevoort, has had over 40 productions around the world, and continues to be a Christmas staple in community, regional and professional theaters across the country.

As a record producer, David started his own company, MIDDER Music Records, and wrote for and produced all of the late, great Nancy LaMott's CD's, including the recently released Nancy LaMott - Live at Tavern on the Green. A new Nancy LaMott double CD entitled Ask Me Again, hit the Top 20 Billboard Jazz Chart, and a new DVD of 25 of Nancy’s performances has also become a best-seller. Next, MIDDER will be releasing a 4-DVD set of Nancy’s live cabaret performances, and both a movie and a book on her life are in development.

David's songs have been sung and recorded by luminaries such as Diana Ross (Your Love - Quadruple Platinum) Barry Manilow (We LIve on Borrowed Time and You're There — featured on Barry's most recent live CD,) Allison Krauss, Petula Clark, Laura Branigan, Kathie Lee Gifford, Jason Alexander, Lucie Arnaz, Laurie Beechman, Lainie Kazan, Leslie Uggams and many others.

David's multi-platinum selling song Open Your Eyes To Love was featured on the soundtrack of The Lizzie McGuire Movie and he wrote the opening song for Disney's sequel to Bambi (sung by Allison Krauss) which was recently released to record-breaking sales.

David is a regular guest on the Today Show on NBC, writing a new song each month based on stories submitted by viewers, for the Everyone Has a Story series. David has written hundreds of songs with Kathie Lee Gifford, and they have co-written and co-produced 2 Children’s CD’s, One of them has just become a Children’s Musical called Party Animals,, produced at the Tampa Bay Center for the Performing Arts. David also co-wrote the score to the Broadway-bound musical “Saving Aimee” with Kathie Lee and David Pomeranz.

David's songs have been used to raise money for charitable organizations ranging from Duke Children's Hospital to Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS and Birmingham’s Summerfest School for the Performing Arts. His song "Help Is On The Way" has been the theme song of the Equity Fights AIDS Easter Bonnet Competition for the past 15 years.

In 2003, David completed an Off-Broadway run of his revue, entitled Listen To My Heart-The Songs of David Friedman, featuring David and 5 of Broadways finest singers performing 27 of his songs. The cast CD containing a live performance of the entire show is released on MIDDER Records. The show has now been performed in 10 American cities as well as in London, Ireland, Germany and Australia. Recently it had a highly successful production in Tampa, and this production will be reprised in Tampa and brought back into New York in 2011.

Having published his songbook, containing 63 of his best known songs, David is hard at work on a solo CD, entitled Trust The Wind – David Friedman sings his own songs, and as many as 10 new posthumous Nancy LaMott CD's.

THE THOUGHT EXCHANGE

In an effort to give back and pass on the knowledge he has accumulated in his multi-faceted career, David has created a metaphysical method called The Thought Exchange.®

Originally developed by David in The Artist's Support Group at Unity Church of New York City as a way to empower artists and help them achieve their goals, The Thought Exchange® has taken on a life of its own as David travels the country bringing this easily graspable yet life-changing technology to people in all walks of life.

Through his association with Unity Churches, David first began expanding his Thought Exchange work by doing workshops at Unity of Fairfield County, CT, The Sacred Center In New York City, Trinity Retreat Center in West Cornwall CT, Unity of Clearwater, Florida, The Unity Convention Cruise in Alaska, The International New Thought Convention in Scottsdale, AZ, Unity of Tulsa, OK and Unity of Wichita, KS.

In recent years, David has added Unity of Dallas, Unity of Chicago, Unity of Phoenix, Unity of Pittsburgh, Unity of Laguna Hills, Fellowship for Today in East Lansing, MI, Unity of Hartford, CT, Unity of North Houston, Unity of Tampa, Unity of St. Petersburg, Unity of Palm Harbor, Unity of the Gold Country, CA, Unity of Seattle, Unity of Bellevue, WA, Unity of Yakima, WA and Unity of Portland to the list of places where he has lectured and/or presented Thought Exchange® Workshops.

When David's Off Broadway show began to travel the country, David began doing Thought Exchange Workshops for theater companies in Milwaukee, WI, Tulsa OK, Eureka, CA, The Florida Chautauqua Festival and Birmingham AL, where one of the workshops included both teenagers and senior citizens. In Tulsa, David expanded the areas in which he did his workshops, offering them to a school for disturbed teenagers, students at Tulsa University, Oklahoma City University (a school famous for turning out numerous well-known Broadway stars,) a meditation and metaphysics group, a bereavement organization for parents who have lost children, a support group for divorcees, and several other colleges in the area.

Recently David was asked to be the keynote speaker and give a Thought Exchange Workshop to 150 Women Lawyers at the Oklahoma Women's Bar Association. This was so successful that he was asked to add an extra workshop two days later for the leaders of the organization.

Several years ago, David’s work came to the attention of a major corporate coaching organization. Called “The Smart Bomb,” David is often called in when all else fails, to work with high-level executives and teams in Fortune 500 companies on both business and personal issues.

Several years ago, at the request of members of the show-business community, David created a Thought Exchange workshop for singers. Called Finding Your Inner Voice, the workshop applies the principles of Thought Exchange to singing and acting.

David also does this work in private sessions, dealing with issues ranging from career to health, prosperity, personal relationships and just about anything that is going on in a person's life that they might want to work on. He has developed a substantial private clientele both in New York and in cities to which he travels.

The applications of The Thought Exchange have proven to be extremely wide-ranging, offering the possibility of benefiting people in every situation and in every walk of life.

David regularly offers workshops in Thought Exchange and Inner Voice in New York City and Connecticut. He is also available to do Sunday Talks, lectures, private sessions and Thought Exchange and Inner Voice workshops in other cities as his schedule permits.

In addition to this book, The Thought Exchange – Overcoming Our Resistance to Living a Sensational Life, David is the author of two New Thought pamphlets, Is Tithing For Me? – A Practical Exploration of Tithing, and Is Forgiveness For Me? – For Those Who Have Tried and Just Can’t Seem to Do It. David offers Sunday talks at New Thought churches on both subjects.

For more information about speaking engagements, lectures, classes and private sessions, or to order books and pamphlets, please contact David at Info@TheThoughtExchange.com