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David is a London-based theatre musician, originally from South Wales. His professional activities encompass the creation of new musical-theatre works, composition and arrangement, musical-direction, accompaniment, vocal coaching, and teaching.
Training: University of Bristol (MA Music: Composition) and University of Oxford (BA Music).
Musical Directing credits include: I Wish (Unicorn Theatre); Becoming Nigella in Concert (Manchester Jewish Museum); Antisemitism: a (((musical))) (Camden People’s Theatre and God’s House Tower); Raw Cacao (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre, Lyric Hammersmith and Wales Millennium Centre); Confessions Of A Rabbi’s Daughter (The Other Palace, Mountview, Upstairs at the Gatehouse and Etcetera Theatre); Garbo And Me, Catch Me, Charlie Peace, Oh Dear, What Can The Matter Be? (Royal Central School of Speech and Drama); Rodgers & Hammerstein (& Me Too) (Bread & Roses Theatre); When The Sex Is Gone (Bush Theatre); The Winter’s Tale (Minack Theatre) and Black (Edinburgh Fringe Festival).
Cabaret credits include: An Evening With Molly Lynch (Park Theatre), A Night In The Piazza and A Night At The Musicals With Johnny Woo & Le Gateau Chocolat (Crazy Coqs).
Composing credits include: Echoes (V&A Museum); The Awakening Of Cheerful Feelings Upon The Arrival Of Single Men (Of Large Fortune), The Twelve Chairs and Lysistrata (Royal Central School of Speech and Drama) and Duckie (Southbank Centre; Theatre Royal Stratford East and HOME Manchester).
Arranging credits include: I Wish (Unicorn Theatre); 2023 Attitude Awards [‘This Is My Life’] (The Roundhouse); Liminal (King’s Head Theatre); The Stiles + Drewe Best New Song Prize 2021 (Hackney Empire) and The Way Out (BBC 2).