David Vass

David Vass spent decades behind the scenes of the entertainment industry, working as a technical

director, lighting designer, and road manager for more than two hundred performers, including over fifty

Oscar, Emmy, Grammy, Golden Globe, and Tony winning names. Alongside that career, he quietly

moved cash for the mob's ties to the record industry, a double life he'd kept mostly to himself until now.

Long before any of that, Vass came of age in Baltimore in the 1950s, and by his teens and twenties was

present for the earliest organizing of the modern gay liberation movement, work he continues to draw

on as a writer and activist today.

Even earlier than that, he worked lighting and sound as a high school student for the strip clubs of

Baltimore's legendary ‘The Block,’ watching firsthand as a fading generation of classic burlesque

dancers gave way to a new era more about show-all shock value than artistry.

He is the creator of the one man show “What Could Go Wrong,” a multiple time Fringe Festival winner

for Best Solo Male Performance, and a member of the Authors Guild and the Dramatists Guild. He has

been with his husband and partner, Paul, for over four decades. Liar, Alleged is his first book.