A native of Dublin, David trained at The Samuel Beckett Centre, Trinity College.

Theatre Credits: Bottom in A Midsummer Night’s Dream for Filter Theatre, Willy in Aristocrats at The Donmar Warehouse, Mr. Burke in Girl From The North Country, PJ in On Blueberry Hill at Trafalgar Studios, 59E59 Theater, New York and The Dublin Theatre Festival, The Narrator in Once at the Olympia Theatre Dublin The Velveteen Rabbit at The Unicorn Theatre, London, Valene in Lonesome West at The Tron Theatre, Glasgow, Fluther in The Plough & The Stars at The Abbey Theatre Dublin and US and Irish Tour, Seamus in Shadow Of A Gunman at Abbey Theatre, Dublin and The Lyric Theatre, Belfast, Burbage in Shakespeare In Love at Noel Coward Theatre, Mac the Knife in The Threepenny Opera at Gate Theatre, Dublin, Kent in King Lear, Theatre Royal Bath. Lumpy in Drum Belly at Abbey Theatre, Dublin, Ugger in Cinderella at Lyric Hammersmith, Banquo in Macbeth at The Sheffield Crucible, Lennie in Of Mice & Men at The Watermill, Newbury, The Cowardly Lion in The Wizard of Oz at the London Palladium, Pato in Beauty Queen of Leenane at the Young Vic, Amos in Chicago at the Cambridge Theatre London, Brendan in The Weir at the Gate Theatre in Dublin, Peter Hall’s production of Uncle Vanya, The Cavalcaders at the Abbey Theatre Dublin, The Wizard of Oz for the West Yorkshire Playhouse, The Field for the Tricycle Theatre, Bedtime Story and The End Of The Beginning for the Union Theatre/ Young Vic, Brian Friel’s Translations for the National Theatre, Hamlet for the Theatre Royal Northampton, Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme for the Abbey Theatre Dublin, Americans and The Quare Fellow Oxford Stage Company Tour and The Tricycle Theatre, John Bull’s Other Island for The Tricycle Theatre and The Weir and Waiting For Godot at the Theatre Royal, Northampton. He also played Dave in the award winning musical The Full Monty, directed by Jack O’Brien at The Prince Of Wales Theatre, The Contractor for the Oxford Stage Company directed by Sean Holmes and Billy Roche’s The Cavalcaders at The Tricycle Theatre directed by Robin Lefevre. Prior to this he played the leading role of Matthew Mugg in Stephen Pimlott’s production of Doctor Dolittle.

David created the role of Father Welsh in Martin McDonagh’s The Lonesome West, part of The Leenane Trilogy directed by Garry Hynes (Druid Theatre, The Royal Court, Sydney Festival and the Lyceum Theatre on Broadway), Russian Tales with the Meridian Theatre Company in Ireland, The Talented Mr. Ripley (Watford), Amphibians (YMCA, Wexford) Dancing At Lughnasa (Salisbury Playhouse), The Cavalcaders (Meridian Theatre Company) Shoot The Crow and Summerhouse (Druid Theatre) The Merchant Of Venice (Lyric, B Belfast), Philadelphia, Here I Come! (Abbey Theatre) The Risen People and The Snow Queen (Gaiety, Dublin), The Plough & The Stars (Second Age), Sexual Perversity In Chicago (TCD), Grease, The Sound Of Music and The Wizard Of Oz (Olympia, Dublin), Extremities (Andrews Lane), Carousel (Tivoli Theatre), Lunch With Mr. Bloom (Dublin Castle), F! (Dublin and Belfast Theatre Festivals).

Film & TV includes: Silent Witness (BBC), Casualty (BBC), Citizen Charlie (RTE), Sunset Song directed by Terence Davies, Body Of Lies directed by Ridley Scott, Hippie Hippie Shake directed by Beeban Kidron, Dorothy Mills, Widows’ Peak, Space Truckers, Upwardly Mobile, Doctors.