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David Rainey
David made his debut at PSC as Friar Lawrence/Abraham in
Romeo and Juliet
. He has recently arrived in Los Angeles after having spent 15 years in New York. He is a graduate of The Juilliard School Acting Division, where he received the Michel and Suria Saint-Denis Prize, the highest distinction awarded to a student in drama by The Juilliard School. Some of the theatre he has performed in since then include the New York Shakespeare Festival (
Richard II, Henry IV, Julius Ceasar
), The National Actors Theatre (
Saint Joan
), The Guthrie Theatre (
The Screens
), The Acting Company (
Love's Labor's Lost
), Hartford Stage Company (
Tartuffe
), Manhattan Theatre Club (
Black Eagles
), The Asolo Theatre Company (
King Lear, Legacies
), Shakespeare Festival L.A. (
Hauntings
), Hudson Theatre (
$70 to a Bus Ride Home
) and the Repertory Theatre of St. Louis (
Boy Meets Girl
). Film and television credits include
Vengence Unlimited
,
Law & Order
,
Cosby
,
Legwork
,
One Life to Live
,
As the World Turns
and
Live From the Lincoln Center: Julliard at 80
. He founded and served as Artistic Director of the Juggernaut Theatre Company, a Juilliard alumni-based group in New York, where he produced and directed several productions. He also directed an all-black cast of
Othello
and played Iago, for which he was named a 1995 Fox Fellow by the William and Eva Fox Foundation.