While a student studying for his BFA at NYU, David was cast in the original Broadcast production of Stephen Sondheim's "Merrily We Roll Along", directed by Harold Prince, then appeared as Peter Van Daan in the Off-Broadway chamber musical, "Yours, Anne", followed by touring as Motel the Tailor in "Fiddler On The Roof" opposite Herschel Bernardi, after which he returned to gain his degree. David later interned at the Playwrights Horizons where he became interested in casting. After a brief stint in a theatrical agency, he joined the casting department at Grey Advertising, where he began learning the commercial industry and subsequently worked for casting director, Bonnie Timmerman on "Dirty Dancing", Roman Polanski's "Frantic" starring Harrison Ford, "Ironweed", Disney's "Enchanted" starring Meryl Streep and Jack Nicholson and the third season of "Miami Vice", the world premieres of Michael John La Chuisa's "The Petrified Prince" for the Public Theater and Andrew Lloyd Webber's "Whistle Down the Wind", both directed by Mr. Prince. This led to 30 years as a casting director at Donna DeSeta Casting, one of New York's busiest offices, personally casting over 2000 TV commercials, and developed techniques for teaching commercial acting, which he brings to his classes at Manhattan School of Music, NYU, Pace University, Actors Connection, other private studios around the city, as well as to his musical theater performance and auditioning classes at AMDA (American Musical and Dramatic Academy)
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