Born in Charleston, South Carolina, David L. Hudacek attended Johns Hopkins University with a major in biology (while taking as many film and writing classes as possible). Much of his work has been in screenwriting, filmmaking, and playwriting. His plays include New Year and I Woke Up in a Sam Shepard Play (both produced at the Boston Theatre Marathon), Existential Dread on the Texas Plains, The Last Words of Anton Chekhov, and his monologue The Presentation, performed at the United Solo Festival in New York on Theatre Row.

Screenplays include Anna Blue (finalist Austin Film Festival, optioned by Cannes award-winning director Jerzy Skolimowski), New York Noir (semi-finalist 2011 Slamdance Writing Competition), Seven Days in Rosetown (finalist 2012 Cinequest Film Festival, semi-finalist 2013 Cinestory), The American Way (winner best thriller 2013 Fade In Awards), and Sweet Nothin’, 2015 Nicholl Academy Fellowship Quarterfinalist. Films include Diary of an Ordinary Man (winner best editing 2004 Rhode Island International Film Festival) and Year 25+, a documentary examining AIDS workers in Zambia, used in public health curriculums. David is also a doctor with a public health degree, who trained at Boston City Hospital, has worked in Zambia, and currently practices in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he is assistant professor in medicine at Harvard Medical School. His interest in the arts began when he saw 8 1/2 at the age of thirteen.

The Imagineer is his first book.