David Barker

David Barker, Actor, Director, Fight Choreographer
David Barker, Teacher, Actor, Director, Fight Choreographer

BIOGRAPHY

David Barker is an award-winning actor, director and fight choreographer. Also an accomplished mime, his work has been featured in numerous publications including From The Greek Mimes To Marcel Marceau And Beyond, Shanghai Theatre Magazine, Mime Journal and Phoenix Magazine. 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 theater, international festivals and TV. He conducted master classes, workshops and residencies at universities, conservatories and public schools throughout the country and in London, Athens and Shanghai. He taught at the University of California at Santa Barbara, Douglass College and Scottsdale and Mesa Community Colleges.

He is a Professor of Theatre at Arizona State University where he teaches movement and acting. He and his wife live in Tempe, Arizona and they have four children and four grandchildren. Through his work he intends to glorify God, from whom all good things come.

To discover more about David, check out www.davidbarker.org

PHOTOGRAPHS, REVIEWS & THE KITCHEN SINK

David Barker is an internationally renowned mime.
David Barker is an internationally renowned mime.
David Barker
David Barker
David Barker's Dodging Bullets tells the story of how a brain surgeon tried to kill David Barker and his sister as his 16-year-old niece watched in an upscale Boston suburb.
David Barker’s Dodging Bullets tells the story of how a brain surgeon tried to kill David Barker and his sister as his 16-year-old niece watched in an upscale Boston suburb.
Actors Theatre 2014 Seminar. Andy Cahoon, Kerry McCue, David Barker, Will Hightower, Kim Richard. Photo by John Groseclose. Unfortunately, the last production at Actors Theatre.
Actors Theatre 2014 Seminar. Andy Cahoon, Kerry McCue, David Barker, Will Hightower, Kim Richard. Photo by John Groseclose. Unfortunately, the last production at Actors Theatre.
Jon Gentry and Andy Cahoon swash and buckle in Childsplay's 2013 production of "Robin Hood." (Photography by Tim Trumble)
Jon Gentry and Andy Cahoon swash and buckle in Childsplay’s 2013 production of “Robin Hood.” Fight choreography by David Barker. (Photography by Tim Trumble)

Randy Messersmith recreates his role of Titus Andronicus in the 2011 production at Southwest Shakespeare Company, a troupe he co-founded with friend Kevin Dressler. (Also pictured, Jesse James Kamps.)

During rehearsals for the 2011 production of “Titus Andronicus,” David (background), who directed, checks the script while Jesse James Kamps and Randy Messersmith work on a scene.

David Barker created the fight choreography for Southwest Shakespeare Company's spectacular 2010 production of "Blood Royal." (Photo Credit Undetermined)
David Barker created the fight choreography for Southwest Shakespeare Company’s spectacular 2010 production of “Blood Royal.” (Photo Credit Undetermined)