Blackfriars

David Loar*

THIS SEASON: Banquo, Doctor, Siward in Macbeth; Corbaccio in Volpone; Cymbeline, Spaniard, Father in Cymbeline; Ferneze in The Jew of Malta; Antonio in The Witch.
PREVIOUSLY WITH ASC: Capulet in Romeo and Juliet; Boyet, Dull in Love’s Labour’s Lost; Shepherd, Gaoler in The Winter’s Tale; Menas, Soothsayer, Canidius, Dolabella in Antony and Cleopatra; Jaques in As You Like It; Duncan in Macbeth, Prospero in The Tempest; Brabantio, Lodovico in Othello; Florio in ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore; Master Touchstone in Eastward Ho! ; Cardinal Richelieu in The Three Musketeers; Egeon in The Comedy of Errors; Lafew in All’s Well That Ends Well; Gremio in The Taming of the Shrew; Moroso in The Tamer Tamed; Mardonius in A King and No King; “Jess” in The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged) ; Shylock in The Merchant of Venice; Chief Justice, Sheriff, Northumberland, Mouldy in Falstaff; Cassius in Julius Caesar; Malvolio in Twelfth Night; Clarence, Catesby in Richard III; Ebenezer Scrooge in A Christmas Carol and An American Christmas Carol, 1852; Claudius in Hamlet; Oberon, Theseus in A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Subtle in The Alchemist; Richard in Richard II; Leonato, Balthazar in Much Ado about Nothing. Road Manager and Education Coordinator on two year-long national/international tours.
OTHER THEATRES: Gabe in Dinner With Friends and Robert Figg in the world premiere of The Seat of Justice (Charleston Stage Company, Charleston, SC); Petruchio in The Taming of the Shrew and Banquo in Macbeth (National Shakespeare Company); five national tours and 20+ characters with Chamber Repertory Theatre of Boston; Candy in Of Mice and Men and writer/monologist, Out of Nowhere (Peabody House Theatre Co-Op, Somerville, MA).
OTHER CREDITS: Instructor of English, University of New Orleans, and University of Massachusetts, Amherst; Bicyclist, 1000-Mile solo “Ride for Humanity” to benefit New Orleans Area Habitat for Humanity’s Musicians’ Village, February, 2007.
EDUCATION: Certificate, American Musical and Dramatic Academy, Studio Program (two-year conservatory program). Certificate, National Shakespeare Conservatory, Summer Program. Master of Fine Arts, Creative Writing, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. BA, English Composition, DePauw University, Greencastle, IN.

*Member of Actors' Equity Association, the union of professional actors and stage managers in the United States.