The epitome of multi-hyphenate, musician, screenwriter, composer, producer, and author David K. Israel has had incredible success from the get-go. When he was still attending high school, he studied with Pat Martino, a visionary in the world of jazz, and co-wrote an album with him before he turned 20. After college, he was employed by the estate of fellow multi-hyphenate, composer, conductor and pianist Leonard Bernstein, where he worked to edit and publish classic works of Bernstein’s like West Side Story. From there, he went on to write and compose original musical pieces for theater and dance but pivoted to address his love of the written word, and in 2005, published Behind Everyman, his first book to garner commercial success. This led to additional writing projects with major publications, and success in both music and publishing realms.