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David Kruh is a former New Yorker and a 1978 graduate of the University of Maryland. Using his college education to its fullest, David, much to his father's chagrin, became a disc jockey. After several years at stations in towns too small to mention, he came to Boston to work as an engineer at WRKO-AM and WROR-FM while getting his Masters in Computer Engineering at Boston University. He has also worked full time as a copywriter, computer programmer, radio producer, radio engineer and, for a few years in the mid-1990s, as a spokesman and web master for the Big Dig. David has also dabbled in acting and stand-up comedy, but prefers to eat, and so currently works full time as a Marketing Communications Manager for Analog Devices, a semiconductor manufacturer. He is a member of his local Historic District Commission and, in the spring, David enjoys helping coach his daughter's baseball team |
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Just released, in the summer of 2007, is FURTHER FENWAY FICTION, the second Red Sox-inspired anthology assembled by editor Adam Patcher. This new collection of 18 works of fiction devoted the Boston Red Sox contains the new ending to David and Steve Bergman's musical THE CURSE IS REVERSED, one in which the lead character watched his beloved Red Sox win the World Series in 2004. FFF is a follow-up to FENWAY FICTION, published in 2005, that contains two works by David, one a ten-minute play titled ICE AGE, which is about the collective fate of Ted William's frozen body and head, and an excerpt from David and Steve's musical THE CURSE OF THE BAMBINO. | 
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David's first
book, Always Something
Doing, Boston's Infamous Scollay Square was originally produced
by Faber and Faber in 1990 and was published in a second edition by Northeastern
University Press in 1999.
"Subtitled "Boston's Infamous Scollay Square," this delightful book, now in its second edition, gives the full history, with all the tassels twirling, the sailors swooning, the beer halls filled with guzzlers, and so on. A really fine book about a topic that old-timers, especially, will cherish, but that younger folk can take in as a way of learning about the Boston that's gone." David Brudnoy, WBZ radio, Boston |
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His second book on Scollay Square was published by Arcadia Publishing in 2004. Titled Scollay Square, it is filled with 180 images 180 of them, in fact - many of which have never been published before, including extremely rare views backstage at the Old Howard. |
| As the resident expert on Scollay Square, David has been called on by many media outlets (Matt Lauer on Channel 7 and Chronicle on Channel 5 are just two examples) to provide commentary on the Square and its personalities. He can even be heard on Talking Street's cell phone tour of Boston (stop #8, Government center, of course.) On December 16, 1999 he appeared on WBUR's Here and Now program, and you can hear that interview HERE. | 
David being interviewed (on the site of the stage of the Old Howard) by film maker Katherine Fries for her documentary on performer Lilly Ann Rose. |
| In 2003 Arcadia Press published Building Route 128 (co-written with Yanni Tsipis) as part of their Images of America Series. The book chronicles the road’s planning and construction, from the early days of main streets and back roads in towns such as Dedham, Waltham, Lynnfield, and Beverly, through the construction and reconstruction of the modern expressway. A click on the cover on the right will take you to the book's website. |  |
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David is also the co-author, with his father Louis, of Presidential Landmarks (Hippocrene Press, 1992), which contains a brief personal and political history of all the Presidents, plus a comprehensive description of their birthplaces, homes, libraries, museums. Presidential Landmarks also contains contains the largest collection of photographs of presidential sites ever published. The book was sold out, but copies can be special ordered through Amazon.com. |
| David's columns have appeared in a number of publications including the Boston Globe, Boston Herald, Boston Magazine, and Yankee Magazine, David is also a frequent speaker on a variety of subjects, including the Big Dig, Scollay Square, the Ponzi Scheme, and U.S. presidents. (Regarding his Scollay Square presentation, the Boston Globe wrote that "Kruh is full of splendid anecdotes..." and that his is "...a fascinating slide show... ...a trip to the past...") A complete list of speeches, a schedule of upcoming appearances, and contact information can be found here. |  |
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The Curse of the Bambino is a musical that David co-wrote with composer and lyricist Steven Bergman about the sale of Babe Ruth to the New York Yankees by Red Sox owner Harry Frazee. The show's World Premiere run (in 2001) was the biggest hit in the history of the Lyric Stage. For more information on the show, to buy a copy of the original cast CD, or to read a new version of the script (in which the Red Sox win,) click here or on the CD cover. |
Other plays David has written have
been produced at a number of festivals around the country, and many have
been published, as well, including:
Colene Byrd and Ray Baker in the brown couch production of Resurrection, directed by Allison Quetel |
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and the cast of Sugan Theater's production of "Arnold Nawrocki is dead, performed at the 2004 Boston Theater Marathon. |
David's most recently completed work for the stage is a full-length comedy titled I.P.O. I.P.O. takes place on the last full day of the 1990s, as we follow Gil Bates, who has quit his Harvard scholarship to grab his share of the Internet boom and start a new company. Over the course of this one day, Gil battles with his investor-father, his competitors, his girlfriend, and a myriad of temptations of the 1990s, while his company rises from nothing (we start with an empty stage in the morning) to the height of a media-driven frenzy (mid-day the office is crowded with furniture, reporters, and lawyers) to the inevitable collapse of the company (as the last lines of the play are spoken, a worker is removing the desks and chairs.) Click HERE to view the PDF.
A complete list of David's work for the stage - some with links to PDFs - can be found here.
Screenplays and Novels
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