QUEER PRACTITIONER OF ACTING

David Weber is a member of Actors’ Equity Association and the National Alliance of Acting Teachers. He 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 is an Artistic Associate with Oklahoma Shakespeare in the Park and has worked as an education artist since 2002 with Lookingglass Theatre, Atlanta Shakespeare Company, Stagedoor Manor, and Blue Lake Summer Camp.  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 and calls An Actor’s Carol, “a solid display of Weber’s outstanding acting skills.”  David was last seen on tour performing his one-man Christmas Carol, An Actor’s Carol: One clown’s Dickensian marathon towards redemption throughout the country to great acclaim. David has his clown certification with David Bridel at The Clown School and he is a member of MICHA where he is a student of the Michael Chekhov technique. He is an Artistic Associate with Oklahoma Shakespeare in the Park where he was last seen as Master Ford/Brook and where he performed his one man carol to launch their holiday season. His research is in non-trauma-based acting pedagogy, action based acting techniques, cognitive flow, and event/active analysis.  He is currently teaching acting at Oklahoma State University as an Assistant Professor of Performance.

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