About david...
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A Capital Region native based out of Historic Troy, NY, David has been working as a professional actor, director, and theatre educator for nearly twenty years. He currently resides with his dog Happy, and is the Artistic Director of Troy Foundry Theatre. David is also a Core Adjunct Professor at Siena College, and is a former Associate Artistic Director for the Saratoga Shakespeare Company, serving 8 years in that capacity and positioning it as one Saratoga Springs’ cultural pearls. David also serves as a Teaching Artist and Capital Region Liaison for Brooklyn-based Stages on the Sound.
He has appeared with, among others: Capital Repertory Theatre, New York State Theatre Institute, Adirondack Theatre Festival, New Stages, Theatre Institute at Sage, Hubbard Hall, Theatre Voices and Saratoga Shakespeare Company. He has directed for, among others, Saratoga Shakespeare Company, Philadelphia Fringe Festival, Theatre Voices, Temple University, Union College, and Siena College respectively.
David frequently moonlights at The Rep as an actor, fight director, assistant director, dramaturg, and dialect coach.
David has also held guest positions with Union College, Rowan University, Russell Sage College, SUNY Albany and was a teaching artist for many years with the New York State Theatre Institute. David received his Bachelor of Arts in both Theatre and English Literature at Russell Sage (at the time, an all-woman’s college) as a Male Apprentice – one of their first ever – graduating with honors. David received his Master of Fine Arts in Directing at Temple University in Philadelphia.
David most recently co-devised and curated the October 2020 World Premiere of Models of Perfection with colleague Niya Colbert in addition to directing December 2019’s World Premiere of A Shadow that Broke the Light, both with Troy Foundry Theatre. David most recently appeared in a reading of John Patrick Shanley’s Rogue’s Gallery (April, 2021), the multi-company produced 8:46 (July 2020) - an original and digital response to police brutality and systemic racism - and appeared in the World Premiere of Yellow (Oct. 2019), a commission with Die-Cast Philly and produced by Troy Foundry Theatre. This past year, David also appeared in three films in 2019 and 2020 - Museum, A Void, and The Middle Ages, and appeared in Die-Cast’s Mad Deep Dish Digital Immersion for the 2019 Philadelphia Fringe Festival. David also recently played The Fool in the 2019 King Lear with Saratoga Shakespeare Company, and sparred as Richard Burbage in TheRep’s 2019 BroadwayWorld Regional Award Winning production of Shakespeare in Love, for which he received a BroadwayWorld Best Featured Actor Nomination.
David has more planned.
He is a proud member of Actors Equity Association.