Acting with David W.

David Robert is a member of the National Alliance of Acting Teachers and has an MFA in Acting and Theatre Pedagogy from California State University Long Beach where he studied 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 the Atlanta Shakespeare Company and has served as a teaching artist for Lookingglass Theatre Company, Stoop Feast Theatre, Emerald City, Alphonsus Academy and the Citadel in Lake Forest. He has been on faculty as Assistant Professor of Acting at Illinois State University and taught workshops on “playing action” at the University of Illinois at Chicago, Rockford University, and Aurora University. David has an acting career that spans twenty-three years in Chicago, Atlanta, and Los Angeles. He has been recognized as one of the Top Ten Actors in Atlanta, Sunday Paper for his work in Terrence McNally’s A Perfect Ganesh. David is the recipient of the Chicago Bar Association Award at The University of Illinois at Chicago 2013 where he also received his BFA in Performance under the direction and mentorship of Yasen Peyankov, Tanara Marshal, Luigi Salerni, Jason Martin, Derrick Sanders, Richard Corley and Paola Coletto. His thesis is titled “Faith and the art of actor training” published by ProQuest and California State University Long Beach. He is working on an episodic of the backstory of Saint Patrick and he currently acts, directs, and teaches with his fellow collaborators at Young Harris College and at his own private practice with Promontory Productions and Stoop Feast Theatre in Chicago.