David Blixt

David Blixt (born July 12, 1973, in Ann Arbor, Michigan) is an American author, stage actor, and director living in Chicago, Illinois. Blixt currently serves as an Artistic Associate at the Michigan Shakespeare Festival and is the MSF's resident Fight Director (Violence Designer). He has directed several plays, including a 2004 production of ''The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged)''. Since 2011 he has been on the arts faculty of the Chicago High School for the Arts. In 2012 he and Broadway veteran Rick Sordelet launched their own printing imprint Sordelet Ink, which focuses on publishing playscripts as well as some of Blixt's own works.

An authority on Shakespeare's ''Romeo & Juliet'', in 2014 Blixt and his wife Janice L Blixt were guests of the city of Verona, Italy for the launch of the Italian language edition of his novel ''The Master Of Verona''. He also collaborated on the script for filmmaker Anna Lerario's documentary about the life of Verona's prince, Cangrande della Scala.

In 2017 his novel ''Her Majesty's Will'', a comedy in which William Shakespeare and Christopher Marlowe foil a plot on Queen Elizabeth's life, was adapted for the stage by Robert Kauzlaric for Lifeline Theatre.

In 2021 Blixt announced the discovery of eleven lost novels by journalist Nellie Bly, which he subsequently published as ''The Lost Novels Of Nellie Bly''. Provided by Wikipedia