Quiet, reticent and unaccustomed to talking about themselves as actors are, I will endeavour to tell you a few things about myself.
I’m originally from Leicester, though I have now been successfully integrated into mainstream society. Following eleven years in banking (our slogan was ‘The bank that likes to say yes’, which was appropriate as I spent most of my time saying, “Yes, you CAN’T have an overdraft ), three years in advertising ( pink-striped shirts, braces and the ability to make taking an order for four skinny lattes sound like rewriting the Geneva Convention ) and two years as a VIP Host at Phantom of the Opera ( mincing around in a red tailcoat and spilling champagne down rich people’s sleeves ), I hiked myself off to drama school, finally emerging with the record score on the local pub’s Trivial Pursuit machine and a National Certificate in Professional Acting.
There followed a couple of years of the occasional job, very little money and the sudden realisation that not everybody made it in the first six months out of college. Several friends asked me if I regretted giving up being a ‘Suit’ person and becoming a ‘Trackie bottoms and stranger to hairdressers’ person, but I can honestly say that I have never done. My philosophy is that whatever decision you make is right at that time. If, in retrospect, you think you would have made a different choice, it doesn’t matter. We are moulded by our mistakes and our successes; they are a part of ourselves and, as such, are neither right nor wrong – simply an experience.
After a four-year break in a vain attempt to become an adult – buying a flat, thinking about a pension, at least TRYING to stop shopping in Top Man – I returned to the profession and have since had the privilege of being directed by Jack Shepherd in the premiere of his play Half Moon and, amongst other roles, have played Elyot in Private Lives, Lawrence in Abigail’s Party, Angelo in Comedy of Errors, Tobia in Cuckoos and acted in my own play, Save Your Kisses For Me.
I am also a voiceover artist ( recently recording a poetry anthology CD with the renowned harpist Rupert Parker ), a writer ( currently working on my third play, first screenplay and first novel as well as being in-house writer for Heartbreak Productions and finishing a book of poetry, jointly written with my grandmother ).
In my spare time ( whatever THAT is ) I like sport, dinner parties with friends, losing at tennis, anything from Meat Loaf to Mozart, fitness training, reading, relaxing in Highgate Wood, cricket on the beach and falling over after two glasses of wine.
DAVID.
