David Bridel

As an acting coach, David has taught for stage and screen, performance, movement, mask, and clown for thirty years. Currently, David has several private clients starring on television and in major motion pictures. ‍ David has conducted seminars, courses, workshops, and masterclasses at a vast range of conservatories in the USA, as well as abroad in Romania, Australia, China, Brazil, Turkey, Austria, and the UK, and independently with multiple theatres and organizations in LA and New York. He has represented his own organization The Clown School as a Clown Specialist on ABC’s Dancing With The Stars, served as the Commedia dell’Arte and Movement Director for Center Theatre Group’s production of The School of Night by Peter Whelan at the Mark Taper Forum (for which he won an Entertainment Weekly ‘Special Events’ Award), and was the adaptor and Movement Specialist for Classic Stage Company’s Dr Faustus in New York. His work has been seen at major opera houses and festivals worldwide as well as The Kennedy Center in the USA.