David Paul Needles


David Paul Needles

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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.