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David Paul Needles
David is an associate artistic director and founding member of The Pasadena Shakespeare Company and also serves as Director of Education.
David’s numerous roles at the PSC include Shylock, King Lear, Brabantio in
Othello,
Bluntschli in
Arms and the Man,
Peachum in
The Beggar’s Opera,
Herman Glogauer in
Once in a Lifetime,
Clarence in
Richard III
, Dogberry in
Much Ado About Nothing
and Capulet in
Romeo and
Juliet at the Ford Theatre.
He directed the PSC’s productions of
Candida, The Hostage, You Can’t Take It With You
, and
A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
Other L.A. theatre credits include Michael Watters
in Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me
at the Hollywood Court Theatre, Herod in Buffalo Nights’
Salome
, Macduff in
A Macbeth
at the Odyssey, and Tilden in
Buried Child
at the Off-Ramp Theatre.
David has also worked in New York and various regional theatres.
TV credits include
The 60’s, Brooklyn South, Malcolm in the Middle, High Incident, Star Trek: the Next Generation, All My Children, Another World
and
Willing to Kill: The Texas Cheerleader Story
.
On film he has appeared in
Automatic, Young Guns II, The Sea Wolf, Hard Miles, Green Party, Heavenly Deception
, and as Senator Joseph McCarthy in
Girls in Prison.