Biografia
Dave Snyder is currently Executive Producer at MasterClass, where he develops, produces, and oversees video courses taught by marquee names for the premium online education platform. In 2025, a series he executive-produced, Season 2 of G.O.A.T., won the James Beard Foundation Award for Best Instructional Visual Media, and, in less than two years, he's produced two classes that are among the top ten best-selling courses in the platform's ten-year history.
Previously, Snyder served as Senior Vice President of Documentaries & Current Programming at Emmy-winning World of Wonder, famous for documentary films and series such as HBO's Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures, The Eyes of Tammy Faye, and Catch and Kill: The Podcast Tapes with Ronan Farrow, and smash reality TV franchises like RuPaul's Drag Race and Million Dollar Listing.
Prior to that, he was Executive Producer of Development at RadicalMedia, where he developed documentary films and TV series with Oscar-nominated filmmaker Joe Berlinger, including two #1 shows for Netflix (Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich and Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel), and 5 top-ten hits for Netflix (Conversations with a Killer: The John Wayne Gacy Tapes and The Jeffrey Dahmer Tapes, Murder Among the Mormons, Crime Scene: The Times Square Killer and Ghislaine Maxwell: Filthy Rich), as well as Confronting a Serial Killer for Starz (2021 SXSW Film Festival), and, in partnership with The Atlantic magazine, Shadowland for Peacock.
He's also served as VP of Development & Production at Academy Award-winning filmmaker Alex Gibney's Jigsaw Productions, where he co-created and produced, directed, and cast segments of the pilot for series-winning The New Yorker Presents for Amazon, featuring Andrew Garfield and Alan Cumming (Sundance Film Festival). He also co-created and oversaw CNN's Death Row Stories, co-executive produced by Robert Redford and narrated by Susan Sarandon (season five premiere 2020); and developed Cooked for Netflix, featuring author Michael Pollan (Berlinale selection).
Snyder has tackled an array of genres, from comedy to reality TV to narrative films, as showrunner, director or producer of programs ranging from Explorer for National Geographic to World of Jenks for MTV to Queer Eye for the Straight Guy for Bravo.
He's created content for HBO, NBC, Paramount+, Comedy Central, Discovery, A&E, HGTV, Food, and Fuse and worked with acclaimed directors such as Oscar-winner Roger Ross Williams, Oscar-nominees Liz Garbus, Steve James, and Lisa Cortes and production companies such as Emmy-winning Jax Media and Zero Point Zero. Notable figures Snyder has directed, interviewed or collaborated with include Bill Clinton, Christian Bale, RuPaul, Quentin Tarantino, Jodie Foster, Alec Baldwin, Whoopi Goldberg, Ron Howard and Tabitha Brown. Snyder's narrative projects include the short film yeah no definitely, starring Vincent Piazza (Lucky Luciano on Boardwalk Empire).
