About
Leadership
Born into a theatrical family, David has worked in theatres across the country. Before joining North Coast Rep in 2003 he served as Artistic Director for the Los Angeles Repertory Company and the Arizona Jewish Theatre Company (AJTC). A veteran of over 100 theatrical productions, directorial favorites include:
North Coast Rep – Madagascar, A Shayna Maidel, The Honky Tonk Angels, Rashomon, A Moon for the Misbegotten; Tuesdays With Morrie; Collected Stories; Halpern and Johnson; Romeo and Juliet; Amy’s View; Einstein Comes Through (also co-author); The Chosen; A Life in the Theatre; Story Theatre and Charley’s Aunt. Coconut Grove Playhouse - Sonia Flew starring Lucy Arnaz; Halpern and Johnson starring Hal Linden and Brian Murray. Papermill Playhouse - The Chosen starring Theodore Bikel and John Lloyd Young. Renaissance Theatre - Long Days Journey Into Night. Alabama Shakespeare Festival - Rocket City (world premiere) and Honky Tonk Angels. Laguna Playhouse - Alexandros (world premiere). Southwest Shakespeare Company - Cyrano de Bergerac. AJTC - Awake and Sing. Meadow Brook Theatre - A Christmas Carol. Pirate Playhouse - Old Wicked Songs and Talley’s Folly. Kingsmen Shakespeare - Hamlet. Portland Rep - Conversations With My Father and Gaslamp Quarter Theatre - A Shayna Maidel
Favorite roles as an actor include title roles in Hamlet at Los Angeles Theatre Center and Los Angeles Repertory Company; Richard III at California Shakespeare Festival; Einstein in Picasso at the Lapin Agile at Laguna Playhouse; Calisto in The Illusion and Harker in Dracula at the Arizona Theatre Company; Jonathan in Sight Unseen at North Coast Rep and Portland Repertory Theatre; Stanley in Broadway Bound at Alaska Repertory Theatre and Scoop in the Heidi Chronicles and John in A Life In The Theatre at Gaslamp Quarter Theatre.
Film and television credits include over three dozen roles including Star Trek IV, The Practice, Foul Play, Christine Cromwell, Renegade, Eight is Enough, and General Hospital. David has also been guest faculty for numerous universities including California State Northridge, Cal Arts, and Shakespeare workshops privately. David lives with his beautiful wife Denise and their amazing sons Jamie and Will.
In January of 2007, Gaidi Finnie took on the new role of North Coast Rep's Business Manager. He came to North Coast Rep following nine years at the Museum of Photographic Art, first as their Business Manager and then as the Assistant Director. Gaidi's interest in theatre dates back to his time in college when he received his B.A. in Theatre and then changed course and achieved a degree in law.
Joe has spent some twenty plus years working as a theatre artist. He is currently the Director of The Theatre School and Educational Outreach at North Coast Repertory Theatre; and Artistic Director/Co-founder of The Blue Trunk Theatre Company which has produced plays locally as well as internationally. He has also been Associate Artistic Director of The Irish Theatre Arts Centre, West Hollywood; Literary Manger/Company Member Serendipity Theatre Company as well as teaching young thespians in public schools and colleges.
As an ACTOR and DIRECTOR he has participated in a multitude of productions and is a member of Actors' Equity Association, Screen Actors Guild, and The Dramatist Guild, Inc.
As a PLAYWRIGHT, Plays include: Trespasses [given a full production by San Diego State University Department of Drama], Mustard Seed, Taxi Dance, Green Babies, {produced at various venues in Los Angles and San Diego} Bailar Con El Diablo, Honky Tonk Blues, Warm Remembrances, Trapped in a Hopper, The Bee Cowboys of the Rio Grande Valley, Welcome Home Sonny Boy, The Madhatter's Tea Party, many adaptations of Shakespeare's works and All My Fans [a screenplay]
As a PRODUCER, Plays produced: The Two-Character [produced in San Diego and at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Scotland, 1998], Trespasses, Taxi Dance, States of Shock, The Unseen Hand, Geography of A Horse Dreamer, Green Babies, The Glass Menagerie, The Love Suicide at Schofield Barracks, Medal of Honor Rag, The Price, Heartland, Connemara Dreaming, Big Tim and Maggie, Taming of the Shrew, Jack and the Beanstalk, Friday's Child, Romeo and Juliet, Beauty and the Beast, Afternoon of the Elves, Comedy of Errors, I Never Saw Another Butterfly, The Tempest, A Thousand Cranes, Pinocchio, Prometheus Bound, Our Town, The Madhatter's Tea Party, Pyramus and Thysby on a Midsummer's Night, the boy who stole the stars, two years of original plays by young writers, as well co-producing over sixty staged readings for The Irish Theatre Arts Centre where he also produced An Evening with Gabriel Byrne.
He received a Master of Arts - Dramatic Arts, San Diego State University with a focus in Directing and Playwriting; Bachelor of Arts, University of Texas, Austin.
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