Comedy Career
David's comedy, a free-form conversational style featuring characters, stories, one-liners and social comment, has been seen at many venues worldwide. He has performed at many comedy festivals including Montreal's Just For Laughs Festival, HBO's US Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen, Colorado, and the TBS Comedy Festival in Las Vegas. He is featured as one of the stars of Laughing Liberally, a political comedy show that made its debut at New York's Town Hall in 2006 and has played numerous engagements Off-Broadway and around the country.
His one-man comedy for the theatre, "South Pathetic", in which he plays himself and 10 characters, details the worst community theater in the South in a production of Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire. It was performed at the Williamstown Theatre Festival in Williamstown, Massachusetts, as well in New York and other regional theaters, including San Francisco's New Conservatory Theatre in August 2009, where it received rave reviews and was a popular success. In August 2010, it was performed at the New York International Fringe Festival in Manhattan, where it sold out its entire run and was favorably reviewed by The New York Times and other media.
In 2012, he released his first novel, "You'll Be Swell" (Trumbull Press), a comic novel about a struggling actress.
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