David Robert Weber has been on the boards and make believing with words since Kindergarten’s “Stop that Pancake!” He is fond of saying, “I firmly believe that the past is prologue to my future, and the gift in life is to be present.” All of his work and effort is spent with fulfilling his potential while embracing the promise of younger artists. His attention is on owning the present, dreaming new dreams and manifesting those gems into being. 

Those gems are the lessons learned in the darker moments, those years not referenced or pointed towards with a spotlight, those moments that do not make it to the resume. Like dropping out of CCM as a freshman, moving back home and living with my parents till 21, failing to invest in EARTHLINK NETWORK as a start up even though he was one of the first 10 employees. Those experiences lead him to explore expressing himself in stand up comedy, fulfilling the dream of acting in repertory with an ensemble at the Atlanta Shakespeare Company, to the rooms of AA in Chicago, and finally finishing what he started at CCM, a BFA in Acting, at The University of Illinois at Chicago almost twenty years later. These early missteps were still important steps on the road to creating amazing characters on stage and screen. 

He has studied acting and acting pedagogy with arguably some of the best acting teachers in the field: Alexandra Billings, Paola Coletto, David Bridel, John Gilkey, Hugh O’Gorman, Yasen Peyankov, Dr. Jaye Austin Williams, Dr. Shanti Pillai, Derrick Sanders, Allan Rich, Tanera Marshall, and Andrea Caban. 

David has been on faculty teaching acting at Illinois State University, Young Harris College, Brenau University, and taught workshops and master classes on Clown, Movement for the Actor, Games and the Actor’s Process on “playing action” at the University of Illinois at Chicago, Rockford University, and Aurora University, Georgia Thespian Conference, Oklahoma Thespian Conference, Kansas City Thespian Conference, as well as lectured on his thesis, “Faith and the Art of Actor Training” at SETC.

David has an acting career that spans thirty years in Chicago, Atlanta, and Los Angeles. He has been called “Stiff” “Boring” “infuriating” and “a cardboard cutout” as well as awarded The Top Ten Actors of Atlanta in the Sunday Paper by critic Bert Osborne. He is currently Assistant Professor of Performance at Oklahoma State University and planning the tour of “An Actor’s Carol: One clown’s Dickensian marathon towards redemption” to stop at your city this December as well as producing the next creative idea -that probably has a bit of subversion, some humor, some rage against power structures and bureaucracy, with ultimately the message of hope for queer youth can feel safe and seen and valued to make mistakes and experience joy alongside their “straight” co-travelers.