QUEER PRACTITIONER OF ACTING

David Weber is a member of the National Alliance of Acting Teachers and has an MFA in Acting from California State University Long Beach where he studied acting and acting pedagogy under the direction of Alexandra Billings, Hugh O’Gorman, Ezra LeBank, Dr. Shanti Pillai, and Andrea Caban.  He has worked as an education artist since 2002 with many equity playhouses, but his longest relationships are with the Atlanta Shakespeare Company and Lookingglass Theater Company.  He has been recognized by Bert Osborn, a critic at AJC, as one of the Top Ten Actors in Atlanta for his work in Terrence McNally’s A Perfect Ganesh.  David recently played Mark Rothko in John Logan’s Red with Moondog Theatre Company in Rockford, Illinois, and recently played Claudius/Hamlet’s Ghost in Hamlet at the Oklahoma Shakespeare in the Park.  He is performing his one-man Christmas Carol, An Actor’s Carol: One clown’s Dickensian marathon towards redemption on tour throughout the country to great acclaim.  David has his clown certification with David Bridel at The Clown School and he is currently pursuing MICHA's certificate of completion in the Michael Chekhov technique, and his research is in non-trauma-based acting pedagogy, playing actions, and event/active analysis.  He is currently at Oklahoma State University as an Assistant Professor of Performance.