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David I. Strasser

David I. Strasser

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Biography

David Strasser is a prolific, award-winning director and executive producer known for his versatility across mystery, thriller, procedural, and romance. His work reaches global audiences on major platforms including Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Hallmark Channel, and Lifetime Television, with projects earning nominations from the Canadian Screen Awards, the Leo Awards, and the Directors Guild of Canada Awards. His recent portfolio reflects an expansion into prestige episodic and elevated dramatic storytelling. He directed key episodes of UPtv’s procedural Blue Skies (2026) and serves as executive producer and director of Hallmark Mystery’s acclaimed Nelly Knows Mysteries franchise (2024-2026). His cinematic flair is also showcased in the Canadian Screen Award-nominated romantic comedy The Wish Swap (2025). Further broadening his dramatic range, David directed Lifetime’s highly anticipated feature Love, Again (2026), starring Valerie Bertinelli, Eric McCormack, and Henry Czerny. A graduate of Vancouver Film School and the Allard School of Law at the University of British Columbia, David is an alumnus of the TIFF Filmmaker Lab and the Berlinale JETS Talent Lab. Known for his precise visual style and emotionally grounded performance direction, he remains a top-tier choice for networks seeking elevated, character-driven storytelling.

Known For

Nelly Knows Mysteries: All Manners of Murder
8.0

Nelly and Detective Michael set out to solve the murder of a guest while at a lavish dinner.

Nelly Knows Mysteries: All Manners of Murder

2026
Love Is a Piece of Cake
6.6

Jessie Dale is a third generation baker who loves her cake shop more than anything in the world. When developers threaten to buy her building and force her out, she must do all she can to save her bakery, all while juggling a blossoming romance with her client's brother.

Love Is a Piece of Cake

2020
A Snapshot of Forever
5.8

Wedding photographer Jessie Brooke's happy small town life is turned upside down when a famous Hollywood actor shows up at her parent's lakeside vineyard for his sister's wedding.

A Snapshot of Forever

2022
The Wrong Patient
6.8

Dr. Katie Jones, a successful plastic surgeon, becomes entangled in the web of a narcissist patient whose path to perfection threatens to destroy Katie and her family.

The Wrong Patient

2018
A Wedding to Remember
6.3

On opposite sides of a development project, Olivia and Brian are surprised to find they are the Maid of Honor and Best Man at the same wedding. They have to put their feelings aside to save their best friends’ wedding… which may turn out to be their own as well!

A Wedding to Remember

2021
Nelly Knows Mysteries: A Fatal Engagement
7.2

When an unusual handwritten letter arrives at Nelly’s office, she identifies the handwriting as belonging to her childhood friend Dahlia, claiming her boyfriend Blake is being unfaithful. Determined to help, Nelly wants some answers and rushes to Blake’s home only to find his dead body. When Dahlia becomes the prime suspect, the new, handsome Detective in town, Michael Hogan must work with Nelly to prove that her childhood friend is not the killer everyone believes her to be.

Nelly Knows Mysteries: A Fatal Engagement

2024
Just for the Summer
6.7

Penelope Campbell loves her annual summer vacations visiting her Grandma Dot, despite Dot's constant attempts to set her up with every single man in town. This year, she bumps into Jason Humphrey, her childhood sweetheart. In order to evade the efforts of their matchmaking grandmothers, they make a pact pretending to date each other, but will the old sparks return?

Just for the Summer

2020
All I Need for Christmas
6.0

Struggling singer/songwriter Maggie is worried she's unable to compete with such a tech-savvy world. Upon returning home to help her parents on their farm she meets Archer, an entrepreneur who has come back to town to spend the holidays alone.

All I Need for Christmas

2024
Campfire Christmas
6.0

Romance rekindles for Peyton and her closest friends when her parents decide to host a holiday themed reunion before selling their family owned summer camp.

Campfire Christmas

2022
The Dating List
7.0

Career driven Abby agrees to help her busy boss find the man of her dreams, but she encounters a dilemma when she starts falling for the same man her boss approves of dating.

The Dating List

2020
A Glenbrooke Christmas
6.5

As Christmas nears, heiress Jessica Morgan seizes what seems like her last chance to experience a relaxed Christmas and heads off to the small town of Glenbrooke, where she meets a handsome fireman.

A Glenbrooke Christmas

2020
The Wish Swap
7.6

When Casey and Henry celebrate their birthdays at the same restaurant, they make birthday wishes at the same time, which are granted. However, they end up getting each other's wishes.

The Wish Swap

2025
Love's Second Chance
6.3

When Rose, a passionate fashion stylist in her 30's living in New York, inherits her grandmother's vintage dress shop, she returns to her small hometown to take care of the store. As she's contemplating closing the store for good, she runs into her charming high school crush, Cole Murphy, who convinces her to restore the store and help people in need that can't afford new clothes. After hesitantly agreeing, the two friends reminisce about their old feelings, and realize that the store is not the only that deserves a second chance, but so does their love.

Love's Second Chance

2020
Love at the Ranch
6.2

Allison Sawyer is the go-to reporter at Metropolis Post, known for breaking high-profile stories. Her next story is writing a profile piece on one of her favourite authors Annabelle Lee. Annabelle based all her romantic novels on the timelessly beautiful Clybourne Ranch, far away from city life.

Love at the Ranch

2021
Wedding of Dreams
4.8

It's been a year since Debbie's smash hit "Wonderland." Now living in a small town, she's found true love and left the music industry behind to teach kids the value of their own musical talents. But when her manager begins to pull her back into the limelight to celebrate the 20th anniversary of her first single, "Out of the Blue," Debbie has to decide which will come first – music or love?

Wedding of Dreams

2018
A Very Merry Bridesmaid
6.4

Leah's 30th birthday is on Christmas Eve, the same day as her brother's wedding. Her childhood crush is back in town for the wedding and he is determined to make sure her birthday does not go by the wayside.

A Very Merry Bridesmaid

2021
The Picture of Christmas
5.9

Ember Morley, a graphic designer and aspiring storybook illustrator in Manhattan is surprised when she learns she has inherited her Grandmother’s Christmas tree farm. She heads back to her hometown of Willow Hill in order to sell it before Christmas, but the charming townspeople convince her to stay a little longer and help plan their annual Christmas Tree Festival. When forced to work with Brandon Hart, the farm’s handsome caretaker, Ember is reminded of the things she once wanted in life.

The Picture of Christmas

2021
Deadly Wives Club
5.2

Anita Jackson is thrilled when she and husband Jack move to an exclusive neighborhood with their adopted daughter Jilly. When she is invited to join the development's "Wives Club", her calendar is suddenly filled with parties, play dates and posh lunches. But strange things keep happening and the wives are more interested in befriending Jilly than her. When she discovers a former member of the Club died suspiciously, she is certain those Wives killed her.

Deadly Wives Club

2024
Christmas at the Golden Dragon
6.2

When Romy and Rick’s parents surprise them with the news that they will be closing the Chinese restaurant they have owned and operated for decades, the siblings each find themselves reevaluating their futures. Also impacted by the news are the landmark restaurant’s loyal patrons and staff, who have all come to depend on the restaurant over the holidays.

Christmas at the Golden Dragon

2022
Coyote Creek Christmas
6.1

While throwing a "Christmas Around the World" party at her family's inn, an event planner discovers Christmas magic with a charming father-son duo whose presence brings about tension and joy.

Coyote Creek Christmas

2021