David Young

David Young (b. July 17, 1946) is a Canadian playwright and screenwriter. During the 1980s, he wrote eleven episodes of Fraggle Rock (one of which he adapted as the storybook Marooned in Fraggle Rock) and The Song of the Cloud Forest segment of The Jim Henson Hour.

In 1987, he was nominated for a Gemini Award for his writing on Fraggle Rock, but lost to the sketch comedy special The S and M Comic Book. He appears on camera speaking about his work for Fraggle Rock in supplemental material from the Season 2 and Season 4 DVD releases.

His other credits include several plays including a theatrical portrait of pianist Glenn Gould, and another about a deluded farmer who believes himself to be romantically involved with Anne Murray. For television, he wrote for the Marvel Comics TV series Mutant X, as well as several TV movies and series.

Credits

• Fraggle Rock
  • "Catch the Tail by the Tiger"
  • "The Finger of Light"
  • "Marooned"
  • "Red's Sea Monster"
  • "Manny's Land of Carpets"
  • "The Invasion of the Toe Ticklers"
  • "Gobo's School for Explorers"
  • "Sidebottom Blues"
  • "The Perfect Blue Rollie"
  • "Space Frog Follies"
  • "The River of Life"
• The Song of the Cloud Forest

External links

• IMDb