Biography
David West Read is a Canadian television writer, playwright and producer. He joined the writing staff of the sitcom Schitt's Creek in 2015 and later became an executive producer on its final two seasons.
Read created and served as showrunner on the Apple TV+ series The Big Door Prize (2023). He is the creator of the upcoming comedy series Brothers (2026). He also wrote the book for the musical & Juliet, which premiered in the West End in 2019 and later transferred to Broadway.
A graduate of the University of Toronto, New York University's Tisch School of the Arts and the Juilliard School's playwrights programme, Read is a native of Scarborough, Ontario.
