David Barker

Background

About David Barker

David Barker is an award-winning actor, director and fight choreographer. Also an accomplished mime, his work has been featured in numerous publications including "From The Greek Mimes To Marcel Marceau And Beyond,""Shanghai Theatre Magazine,""Mime Journal" and "Phoenix Magazine." He graduated Cum Laude from Duquesne University with a B.S. in Education in 1977 and received his M.F.A. in Theatre Arts from Rutgers University's Mason Gross School of the Arts in 1980. His credits include national and international tours, Broadway, Off-Broadway, regional theatre, international festivals and TV. He conducted master classes, workshops and residencies at universities, conservatories and public schools throughout the country and in China, Greece, England, Ireland and Germany. He taught at the University of California at Santa Barbara, Douglass College and Scottsdale Community College. He is a Professor of Theatre at Arizona State University where he teaches movement and acting. He is the author of "Connected Motion: A Common Sense Approach To Movement Training For Actors." He and his wife live in Tempe, Arizona and they have four children and six grandchildren. Through his work he intends to glorify God, from whom all good things come.