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This past fall, David had the honor of directing a cast of 40 performers in the final act of Taylor Mac’s five-act music-theater extravaganza The Lily’s Revenge at the Here Arts Center in New York. The previous summer, David directed and developed The Lily’s Revenge with Taylor at the Sundance Theatre Lab. Following its world premiere, critics at The New Yorker, The New York Post, The Village Voice, Paper Magazine and Time Out/NY all put The Lily’s Revenge on their “Top Ten” lists for 2009.

David’s initial collaboration with Taylor began in Manhattan at Joe’s Pub in 2006 with the solo show The Be(a)st of Taylor Mac. A Herald “Angel” Award winner at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in Scotland that year, The Be(a)st went on to play the Spoleto Festival, the Sydney Opera House, the Andy Warhol Museum, Yale Rep, New York’s Under-the-Radar Festival at The Public, the Soho Theatre in London, and a summer-long run in 2008 at the Here Arts Center, where it was a Critic’s Pick in Time Out/NY, The New Yorker and The New York Times.

Some of David’s other recent productions include directing his own multimedia adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe’s The Fall of the House of Usher at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, the Ireland premiere of

2 Boys in a Bed on a Cold Winter’s Night at the 2009 Dublin Gay Theatre Festival, and the world premiere of Deborah Karpel’s Songs My Mother Never Taught Me at Ruhrfestspiele/2009, Germany.

David made his directorial debut in New York in 1997 at off-Broadway’s Rattlestick Theater with Eric Bernat’s Starstruck (Critic’s Pick: Village Voice). With an emphasis on developing new works, David directed Edmund White’s Terre Haute at the 2005 Sundance Theatre Lab, That Woman: Rebecca West Remembers at Manhattan Theatre Source (Critic’s Pick: The New York Times), the new musical Jesus & Mandy at Theatre for the New City (2006 Broadway.com Audience Award nominee), Alan Moore’s The Mirror of Love at Baltimore Theatre Project (Critic’s Pick: City Paper), Sherie Rene Scott: A Work-in-Progress at NY’s Zipper Factory, The Gospel According to Matthew in the 2007 NYC International Fringe Festival (Critic’s Pick: The New Yorker, Time Out/NY, Backstage, nytheatre.com), and the 2008 New England premiere of Brad Fraser’s Poor Super Man at the Art House in Provincetown, MA. Additionally, David’s production of James Edwin Parker’s 2 Boys in a Bed... has been produced in Fire Island, San Francisco and Provincetown.

As a teacher, David was a Directing Fellow in Anchorage, Alaska on three separate occasions at the Out North Contemporary Art House -- steering playwright/performers in their annual “Under 30 Series.” He has also taught autobiographical monologue writing and performance to at-risk kids at New York’s Lesbian & Gay Community Center, a well as serving as the online moderator of a semester of “New Queer Theater” at the New School. With the acclaimed classical actor Jane Titus as his co-teacher, David has developed an academic-aimed workshop on cross-gender acting. And in private practice, David continues to coach, develop and dramaturge new works by solo performers.

Upcoming projects in 2010 include a spring/summer season on Cape Cod: developing Stella Starsky & Quinn Cox’s Two Hearts Bleed as One (which made its NY debut at Joe’s Pub in January), staging Thornton Wilder’s Pulitzer Prize-winning classic Our Town at the Provincetown Theater in May, and directing the summer-long run of David Parr’s dazzling new play Slap&Tickle, also at the Provincetown Theater.