David Kruh is a former New Yorker and a 1978 graduate of the University of Maryland (B.A. in U.S. History) and a 1987 graduate of Boston University (M.S. in Computer Engineering).  David credits his interest in the building of Massachusetts’s Route 128 from his stint as a spokesperson for the Central Artery Tunnel Project, or Big Dig, in the 1990s.  David has also worked at various times (and with varying degrees of success) as a disc jockey, writer, computer programmer, radio producer, radio engineer, actor, and stand-up comic.  He is married with one child, and currently works full time as a Marketing Communications Manager for Analog Devices, a semiconductor manufacturer.

David is a previously published author whose first book, Always Something Doing, Boston's Infamous Scollay Square (published originally by Faber and Faber in 1990) has had a second edition published 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

He 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, and he is a frequent speaker on a variety of subjects, including the Big Dig, Scollay Square, and the presidents.  A complete list of speeches, a schedule of upcoming appearances, and contact information can be found here.
 

His writing for the stage includes a musical titled The Curse of the Bambino (music by Steven Bergman) which is all about the infamous sale in 1920 of Babe Ruth to the New York Yankees by the Boston Red Sox, and the ensuing frustration by the team.  COTB had its World Premiere in Spring 2001, at Boston’s Lyric Stage, and went on to become the biggest hit in that theater's history.  The Trial of William Shakespeare, a drama for the stage which is based on the true story of the people who in 1916 proved in court that Francis Bacon wrote Shakespeare.  He collaborated, with Arnie Reisman, on PONZI!, a film script about the infamous Boston swindler who, coincidentally, operated at the exact same time that Harry Frazee sold Babe Ruth to the New York Yankees. (PONZI! placed in the quarter finals of the 2001 Scriptapalooza Screen Writers competition.)  David's most recent work is a novel and screenplay titled Be Careful What You Wish For..., a fantasy in the truest sense of the word, as it is about the year the Red Sox finally win the World Series and how that affects the lives of several Bostonians.  Both are represented by Cambridge Literary Associates of Newburyport, Massachusetts.

David's short play, Top of the World, Ma! (a spoof on the corporate "Outward Bound"-type programs) was presented in July, 2001 at the Hovey Players fourth annual Summer Shorts Festival (This play brings new meaning to "over the top!" It just keeps upping the comic ante! This tale of two yuppies on an office-sponsored mountain-climbing expedition had the audience exploding with laughter. Jason Myatt and Jason Yaitanes again share the stage, and close this year's Summer Shorts in brilliant style wrote Willie Biggers and "I was crippled with laughter..." said Jim Hickey on TheaterMirror.com.)Cinema Verite, a 10-minute play about four college students who ponder the choices at their local cinema and the choices they've made with their lives, was presented in February 2002 as part of ACME Theater New Winter Works Festival in Maynard, MA.  Another 10-minute piece, The Man Who Saved the World, was presented as part of the 2003 Arlington Center for the Arts New Theater Works Festival, held in October and November.  And What Would A.R. Do, a 10-minute play (a comedy of manners - all bad ones) has been selected for production at the 2003 ACME New Winter Works Festival.