David Parkes
Company Member
David has appeared in 12 TimeLine
productions, including as Mr. Sartorius in Widowers' Houses, Jim McFehren in Harmless, George Washington in The General from America, Sir Thomas More in A
Man for All Seasons, Lambert LaRue in Pravda,
Henry in The
Lion in Winter, Martin Heidegger in Hannah
and Martin (After Dark Award), Moe Axelrod
in Awake
and Sing! and John Proctor in The
Crucible, for which he received a Joseph Jefferson
Citation nomination and an After Dark Award. He also performed
the role of Tommy in Halcyon
Days, Mr. Manningham in Gaslight
and Warden Whalen in the Chicago premiere of Tennessee
Williams' Not
About Nightingales for which he received a Joseph
Jefferson Citation.
Other work in Chicago includes One Arm at Steppenwolf Theatre, directed by Moises Kaufman, as well as productions with American Theater Company, Eclipse Theatre, Apple Tree Theatre, Streetsigns, Footsteps Theatre, Greasy Joan & Co. and the Piven Theatre Workshop.
David earned a master of fine arts degree from Florida State
University's Asolo Conservatory, which included a month-long
stint at the Moscow Art Theatre in Russia. He also received
a bachelor of fine arts degree from New York University's Tisch School of
the Arts in conjunction with the Lee Strasberg Institute
in New York.
updated August 2007
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