David took acting 101 in his junior year at Cornell University because his buddy told him it was an easy A. What he did not know was that it would change his life. In his senior year he performed in three plays including Sand Dancing, written by Kenneth Pressman and directed by Bob Moss, and Man and Superman starring Jimmy Smits as Jack Tanner. During the run of the Shaw play his director and chair of the MFA program at Cornell University took him to lunch and offered him a place in the program in the upcoming fall. He will always wonder what his life would have been had he accepted.


His life took a different direction and he packed himself off to Southern Seminary. During his time in Louisville he was ordained, pastored a church, and got his MDIV. But he also took the only acting class offered at school, performed in a community theater production of Fiddler on the Roof, saw every show at Actors Theatre Louisville and ached to be acting as he knew it to be a higher calling, at least for him.

David is a New York lover from birth, so off he went to pursue life on the stage. He studied with Michael Howard and did every Off and Off-Off Broadway play he could. He loved the commercial work he did, he loved the student and Indie films. He loved acting. He did many things to help support his addiction including: jail guard, maître d’ (naturally), and owner/operator of a swanky cocktail lounge. When he met the love of his life, he knew it was time to pick a career that would guarantee income to help raise a family and he became a New York City Teaching Fellow and taught fifth grade in Bed-Stuy while he earned his MS in Education. He knew King Lear would be waiting for him when the time came.

Now his daughter is happily attending his Alma Mater, he is retired from his role as President of Saint Paul’s School of Nursing and has jumped back in with a passion that never diminished. His time has come, and he is ready.