actor / director / storyteller

DAVID L. YEN

CELL: 707/583-4102 | contactdavidyen@yahoo.com

THEATRE (selected):

Galatea EPS Unit Spreckels Theatre Company
The Thanksgiving Play* Jaxton Left Edge Theatre

Faceless Scott Bader STUDIO at 6th Street Playhouse

The Nether Cedric Doyle Left Edge Theatre

The Curious Incident of the
Dog in the Night-Time Ed Boone Spreckels Theatre Company
Journey’s End Stanhope Ross Valley Players
The Servant of Two Masters Truffaldino Sebastopol Shakespeare Festival
August: Osage County Sheriff Gilbeau 6th Street Playhouse
Stalag 17 Sefton RIOT Theater/Spreckels Performing Arts Center

The Blue Room Fred/Anton/Charles/ STUDIO at 6th Street Playhouse

Robert/Malcolm
Macbeth Macbeth The Loading Zone
Long Day’s Journey Into Night Jamie Sonoma County Repertory Theater

Santaland Diaries All (one-man show) Left Edge Theatre (2022, 2017); 6th Street Playhouse
(2005, 2014, 2015, 2016); The Phantom Gallery

(2008); Spreckels Performing Arts Center
(2009, 2011, 2012); Marin Arts Council, Glaser

Center (2010); Main Stage West (2013)

MUSICALS (selected):
Urinetown: the Musical Officer Lockstock Speckels Theatre Company
Oliver! Fagin Sixth Street Playhouse

Peter Pan    Captain Hook/Mr. Darling Spreckels Theatre Company
In The Mood    Benedick Shakespeare in the Cannery
My Fair Lady Henry Higgins    Sixth Street Playhouse
Catch Me if You Can Hanratty    Spreckels Theatre Company
The Sound of Music Max Detweiler    Mountain Play
The Music Man    Harold Hill    Sixth Street Playhouse
The Wizard of Oz Tin Woodsman    Mountain Play
A Funny Thing Happened    Pseudolus Santa Rosa Players, CA
   on the Way to the Forum

The King and I King Mongkut Santa Rosa Players, CA

TRAINING:

Schools: University of California, Irvine; Actors’ Center, Los Angeles, CA
Acting: Mary Ann McGarry, Geoffrey Owens, Larry Salberg
Stage combat: John Sullins (Military Master at Arms), Rick Pallaziol, Marty Pistone
Voice: Joseph Huszti, Michael Geiger, Jenny Jones

Cartoon Voice: Bob Geren

SPECIAL ABILITIES:
Standard British, Cockney, Irish and various American dialects; vocal sound effects and impressions. Five years experience in children’s theater. Extensive large venue improvisational work, including Master of Ceremonies and standup comedy at Bill Graham Civic Center, Shoreline Amphitheatre, Madison Square Garden and numerous other venues, and participating in the Renaissance Faire in Northern and Southern California and Dickens Christmas Faire in San Francisco. Have sung solo and in small and large ensembles (jazz, madrigal, barbershop, 50-100 voice choral groups); can also conduct. Street theater and “busk” shows (acting, juggling, stage combat). Active sports enthusiast (ice hockey, ultimate Frisbee, volleyball). Prior service US Army (desert reconnaissance). California Driver’s License (current).