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Dave DeChristopherDirector of Education and Outreach |
Dave spent twenty-four years in New York City, working as an actor, director, playwright, and prolific artist-in-the schools. He’s taught with DreamYard, L.E.A.P., The Sewanee Writers Conference, Young Playwrights, Project ABC, and the Greenwood Theater Company, serving as Artistic Director from 2002-2004. As a corporate trainer with Performance of a Lifetime, he led workshops, wrote and acted in documentary scripts and performed role plays, all with the goal of helping executives improve their leadership and communication skills. He was a founding member of the Jewish Repertory Theatre for Young Audiences (with whom he toured the United States and Israel), and a member of the resident acting company of the Castillo Theatre for eight years, acting in premiere productions of plays by Mario Fratti, Heiner Muller, Lawrence Holder, Fred Newman, and others. Additional acting credits include numerous roles Off-Broadway, in summer stock and regional theatre.
As a founding member of the Playwrights’ Collective: The Aural Stage (1989-2004), Dave participated in developmental readings of scores of new plays. An award-winning playwright, his own work has been produced across the country, and published in The Best American Short Plays, The Pacific Review, Lynx Eye, and elsewhere.
Before coming to BHCT, Dave spent more than a decade in his native Toledo, Ohio, where he was the artistic director of the Toledo Repertoire Theatre. He taught acting classes at the University of Toledo, and led the International Baccalaureate in Theatre at Notre Dame Academy, also coaching its nationally ranked speech team. As a founding member of the Glacity Theatre Collective, Toledo’s only Equity theatre, he performed in productions of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Eurydice, Waiting for Godot, All’s Well that End Well, Criminal Genius, Problem Child, Breathing Corpses, Betrayal, The Santaland Diaries and, in collaboration with the Toledo Symphony, Every Good Boy Deserves Favour, culminating in a sold-out performance at Carnegie Hall.
Dave is the author of four published novels and a handful of nonfiction books. In addition, he is a prolific book reviewer and cruciverbalist. His work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, Reader’s Digest, Publishers Weekly, Kirkus Reviews, and elsewhere. He’s a proud member of Actors Equity Association, serving on the Theatre for Young Audiences committee for a decade, and The Dramatists Guild.
At BHCT, he has appeared in It's a Wonderful Life, Noises Off, Matilda, Sense and Sensibility and Macbeth.
As a founding member of the Playwrights’ Collective: The Aural Stage (1989-2004), Dave participated in developmental readings of scores of new plays. An award-winning playwright, his own work has been produced across the country, and published in The Best American Short Plays, The Pacific Review, Lynx Eye, and elsewhere.
Before coming to BHCT, Dave spent more than a decade in his native Toledo, Ohio, where he was the artistic director of the Toledo Repertoire Theatre. He taught acting classes at the University of Toledo, and led the International Baccalaureate in Theatre at Notre Dame Academy, also coaching its nationally ranked speech team. As a founding member of the Glacity Theatre Collective, Toledo’s only Equity theatre, he performed in productions of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Eurydice, Waiting for Godot, All’s Well that End Well, Criminal Genius, Problem Child, Breathing Corpses, Betrayal, The Santaland Diaries and, in collaboration with the Toledo Symphony, Every Good Boy Deserves Favour, culminating in a sold-out performance at Carnegie Hall.
Dave is the author of four published novels and a handful of nonfiction books. In addition, he is a prolific book reviewer and cruciverbalist. His work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, Reader’s Digest, Publishers Weekly, Kirkus Reviews, and elsewhere. He’s a proud member of Actors Equity Association, serving on the Theatre for Young Audiences committee for a decade, and The Dramatists Guild.
At BHCT, he has appeared in It's a Wonderful Life, Noises Off, Matilda, Sense and Sensibility and Macbeth.