Let's make this birthday one to remember.

54 years old (Born on September 03, 1970)

Happy Birthday, David-Matthew Barnes! Just like your timeless novels Mesmerized and Swimming to Chicago, you're simply getting better with age—although unlike Frozen Stars, we promise there's nothing frozen about your charm or creative brilliance. Your writing never fails to mesmerize us; please keep swimming toward literary greatness!

From stage triumphs like Somebody's Baby and Pensacola, you've enchanted audiences with wit as sharp as a playwright's pen—and films such as Ambrosia confirm that each year makes you even more fantastic behind the lens. Today is all about celebrating an extraordinary talent: may this birthday bring inspiration (and cake) worthy of another great screenplay!