David Elmaleh is a comedy writer, director, and producer from Toronto, Canada, who gets a real rush out of referring to himself in the third person. he’s directed series’ for cbc comedy and the bell fund, and content for the disney channel, ytv, and teletoon, among others. recently, he directed and produced video content at shopify. Prior to that, he worked at CBC directing a docuseries on comedy in Canada, and crafting social content for streaming service CBC Gem. he was a Story Editor on the netflix series, pup academy, as well as air bud the dog on twitter. he and his writing partner ali kellner won the 2020 toronto animation arts festival international’s big pitch competition for their animated workplace comedy, lost and found; before that, they won the 2019 ottawa international animation festival’s pitch this! competition for their animated children’s series, melrose middle school. A featured contributor to Funny Or Die, his online videos have been viewed millions of times and published by media outlets such as TIME, CollegeHumor, the A.V. Club, and The Hollywood Reporter. If you encounter him in the wild, please try your best to avoid staring at his quickly receding hairline. he also has braces.