Current Projects:
WWII Play Based on Parents' Love Letters:
Revised Edition of Movement Book:
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David Barker is an artist who paints, acts, directs, choreographs fights and writes. He trained as a visual artist for 4 years with the legendary Sister Elvira at Paul VI High School. And now in retirement he has rediscovered his passion for acrylics on canvas, and sits alone staring at a blank canvas, then impulsively engages the colors, brushes, sponges and unorthodox artistic tools, as he rearranges lines and shapes, not certain where it will all end. It is an experience of emotional release, centeredness, presence, prayer, solitude, meditation, but above all: celebration.
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 US and in China, Greece, England, Ireland and Germany. He taught at the University of California at Santa Barbara, Douglass College and Scottsdale and Mesa Community Colleges. He is an Emeritus Professor of Theatre at Arizona State University where he taught movement and acting for 40 years. He is the author of Connected Motion: A Common Sense Approach To Movement Training For Actors, Dodging Bullets and From Tidworth With Love. 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.