David Holman

David Holman is a former television producer and executive who worked in New York and Los Angeles. After the two specials aired, it surprised Henson and Holman to learn that the network had passed on hiring the Muppets to be in prime time. and later became a hit in syndication. During these six years (1974–1979), Holman also produced three seasons of "Big Bird's Live Symphony Concerts". Also while at the Muppets, Holman conceived the Parker Bros. "The Muppet Show Board Game" for Henson, and assisted in the production of the "Mirinda Craver" ads.

Holman continued his career in Los Angeles first as Merv Griffin's Unit Manager for the Vine Street Theater. In 1971 Paramount produced the first season of Entertainment Tonight on the same stage as The Merv Griffin Show. ABC Sports was preparing for the 1984 Los Angeles Summer Olympic Games and hired Holman to be a Production Administrator in 1982, and then promoted him a year later as the Head of Logistics for the International Broadcast Center (IBC) on the Sunset-Gower Studio lot. Holman won a TV Emmy Award for his work on that world TV event. After Holman wrapped this two-year freelance position he was named director of live and tape production for Columbia Pictures Television. Within a few years Holman was named VP of Production for all of Columbia's TV productions at the Sunset Gower Studios and later after Sony purchased Columbia, most of the TV productions were produced at Sony Pictures (formerly MGM) and the Culver Studios, both in Culver City, California. During this time, Holman worked on several thousand episodes of television series and pilots, including The Young and the Restless, Mad About You,

During his semi-retirement, Holman met author Joyce Spizer, and together they co-wrote (with another first-time writer) their first screenplay. Holman and Spizer (now Joyce Foy) have written a second screenplay and formed Hollywood East Productions in 2005 to write and produce independent films. Holman also co-wrote a TV special about the career of country legend Patsy Cline with singer Cali McCord in Las Cruces, New Mexico. Holman currently lives with his life partner Tom Young in Surprise, Arizona, and Holman continues to do creative writing and has been speaking to numerous film and TV students in Texas, California, Illinois, and New Mexico.

Holman was named an Outstanding Young Man of America in 1970 by the U.S. Jaycees, and given an Award of Merit by the Texas Society of Professional Engineers, for directing the Paths of Progress TV series at KTBC-TV, Austin, Texas, in 1963. He served in the U.S. Army in Munich, Germany, between 1960 and 1962, and was honorably discharged in 1962.

Holman remains an active member of the Producers Guild of America, the Academy of TV Arts and Sciences, a founding member of the Palm Springs Chapter of Women In Film, a guest lecturer for colleges and universities in the U.S., and is a life member of the University of Texas Ex-Students' Association. Holman is listed in Who's Who in Entertainment 1990–Present and in Who's Who in California 1983–2006.