BAD GIRLS The Musical

Training:
RADA.

Theatre includes:
seasons at Manchester Royal Exchange, Bristol Old Vic and the Crucible, Sheffield.

Leading roles in original West End productions include:
Cats, Evita, Blondel, Great Expectations, Little Shop of Horrors and Loot. Also, the New York Shakespeare Festival’s The Mystery of Edwin Drood, as well as The Russian in Chess, Drake in Traitors, Carl in Sean Devlin’s triology The Man Who Tried to Be Good, Border Lies and A Place Among Saints, Ratcatcher in Helen Sharman’s Shadowmoves, the Leading Player in Pippin, the Pinball Wizard in Tommy, Charles- Maurice Talleyrand in Napoleon and Germont in the award-winning La Traviata (Donmar Warehouse). Also, the title role in Edmund Kean Tragedian (Evening Standard nomination), M. Defarge in A Tale of Two Cities, Vic Christian in Closer to Heaven and Pontius Pilate in Jesus Christ Superstar (Lyceum).

RSC:
David originated the role of Enjolras in Les Misérables (Barbican and Palace). Two seasons at Stratford-upon-Avon and London including: Amiens Le Beau in As You Like It, Captain Macheath in John Caird’s The Beggar’s Opera (Olivier nomination for Best Actor), Dollabella in Antony and Cleopatra and Tambourlaine the Great.

Tours:
Steve in Sport of My Mad Mother, Rumour in Henry IV Part I, Lovborg in Hedda Gabler and Mephistopheles in Doctor Faustus.

NT:
the Berliner Ensemble’s Coriolanus, Jenkin in A Woman Killed with Kindness and Angel in Tyger Tyger. Trevor Nunn’s Ensemble 1999-2000: Menelaus in Troilus and Cressida, the Governor of Buenos Aires in Candide, the Frog in Honk!, Mr Peachum in The Villain’s Opera and the Duke in The Merchant of Venice. David played psychotic transvestite Petal in Boy George’s Taboo and Ernest Hemingway in Beautiful and Damned (Lyric). He has been working on preparatory readings of Hugh Whitemore’s translation of Tolstoy’s War and Peace in the role of the narrator Bilibin. Most recently, he appeared as the infamous Rufus Griswold in Eric Woolfson’s filmed production of Edgar Allen Poe (Abbey Road Studios), the Gangster Dallow in Brighton Rock (Almeida), Captain Harkness in The Far Pavilions (Shaftesbury), Count Fosco in The Woman in White (Palace), Captain Andrew Hawkes in Show Boat (Royal Albert Hall), Marcos in Promises and Lies (Birmingham Rep) and Carlos in Howard Goodall’s Days of Hope (King’s Head).

Television includes:
Agamemnon in The Trojan Horse and the Duke of Venice in Trevor Nunn’s award-winning The Merchant of Venice.