David directed his first play – The Ghost Train by Arnold Ridley – at the age of 18 while at school. He returned to the world of theatre in 2015 when he joined the chorus of New Sussex Opera (NSO) for their production of Purcell’s The Indian Queen. Since then he has performed with a variety of theatre groups – LOS Musical Theatre (The Producers); The Miller Centre (Nell Gwynn); COS (Spamalot); Rising Stars Theatre Company (Sweet Charity, ’Allo ’Allo, The Affairs at Meddler’s Top, The Vicar of Dibley).

In 2016, he began directing again as assistant director for Purcell’s King Arthur (NSO) and director for their Trial By Jury and A Voyage Around G&S. Over the next couple of years he directed Gluck’s Orfeo and Donizetti’s Elixir of Love.

In 2018, he directed Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime for The Miller Centre in Caterham.

In a busy 2019 he directed My Fair Lady for Lewes-based LOS Musical Theatre, Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet for EODS in Eastbourne and Frank Wildhorn’s Jekyll & Hyde – The Musical for Rising Stars Theatre Company in East Grinstead.

In 2022, he returned to NSO and directed Handel’s Acis and Galatea and Offenbach’s Belle Lurette.

During the Covid lockdown he turned his hand to writing and wrote a play, Beauty, loosely based on Anna Sewell’s novel Black Beauty, as well as a number of 30-minute radio plays. He set up an online theatre company, The Sofa Players, and recorded audio versions of these radio plays as well as a selection of classic plays.

In 2020, David moved with his partner Jacqui Howe to South Wales, where they run their horse and donkey sanctuary – Springwood Mindfulness Sanctuary.

In 2023, David joined the Attic Theatre in Newcastle Emlyn and directed their production of Noël Coward’s Blithe Spirit in July 2024.