David Flebotte was an American television producer and writer. He was born in Hanson, Massachusetts, and attended Emerson College, where a professor encouraged him to take up writing.
Flebotte produced and wrote for television programs including I'm Dying Up Here, Masters of Sex, 8 Simple Rules, Will & Grace, The Sopranos, Desperate Housewives, Suddenly Susan, Sherri, George Lopez, The 5 Mrs. Buchanans, Boardwalk Empire, and The Bernie Mac Show. His final credit was the series Tulsa King, producing and writing episodes in the show's first and second seasons.
In 1999, he was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award in the category Best Animated Program for his work on the television program The PJs. His nomination was shared with Steve Tompkins, Larry Wilmore, Brian Grazer, Ron Howard, Tony Krantz, Eddie Murphy, Will Vinton, Tom Turpin, Bill Freiberger, Mary Sandell, David Bleiman Ichioka, Michael Price, J. Michael Wendel, Al Jean, Mike Reiss, Les Firestein, Donald R. Beck and Mark Gustafson.
Flebotte was diagnosed with cystic fibrosis when he was a child, and was not expected to survive to adulthood. In the 1990s, he underwent a double lung transplant. He died from cystic fibrosis at a hospital in Missoula, Montana, on July 8, 2025, at the age of 65.
