David Ezell is a Manhattan-based writer writer and actor. He grew up in rural Georgia and, as a boy, played in the yard of Flannery O’Connor’s family home. As an adolescent, he acted professionally in theater and television until his early twenties. He then pursued an academic path that led him to the Georgia Institute of Technology (as a doctoral student in film history) and Columbia University (where he became a licensed psychotherapist). After many years in private practice, he returned to ac...