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David LeBarron
biography
David’s love of storytelling started in 3rd grade when he read and reenacted the story of Athena’s birth. Taken by the “Muses” to tell stories, he wrote and directed many plays in his backyard, making props and sets out of his Mom’s linen closet and living room furniture. Luckily, he was never told to stop. So he never did. At Wagner College he started the theatre lab program and afterwards sat on the board to the Independent Theatre Company in Manhattan’s Lower East Side. Now in LA, he continues to weave his tales through theatre and film. His Mom’s sheets are safe but nothing else is.
David has helmed four penned features: Sledge: a noir styles drama about a lunatic’s last crime (Silverlake film Festival) ; Doves: a tranny hooker gets murdered and no one cares except her best streetwalking friend; Homewrecker Houseboy: the internet melodrama soap opera following the absolutely overdramatic ruin of everyone; and Storyteller: a tribal storyteller, exiled from his people, wanders the desert, reciting myth and legend, on a quest for his divinity. (NY Film Fest, Grassroots Film Fest, Save the Bay Film Fest.)
David’s podcast: thedavidlebarronshow.com holds sketches and rants with subscribers all over the globe. Shorts of note: David’s Devils: a Charlie’s Angeles parody with Silverlake hipsters fighting evil fashion (winner best of shorts 2kings in judgment) and Booty Nights a funny look at fear of doing it! (winner best of shorts Akbar/Silverlake shorts festival), Ninja Drag Queen Vigilantes, Booty Nights, and Chosen Champion.
Theatre of note: David wrote and directed: Search me! which sold out CB’s Gallery; The Fortunate Whore at The Krane Theatre; Joshua’s Year at The Robertson Playhouse; Sympathetic Affections at Theatre Row Theatre. He wrote and starred in The Ass of Life, a monologue play, to which critics responded “dazzling characters…that will keep you in stitches.” IN Magazine; and The Chronicles of Steve, the bossy bottom which LA Weekly called “riotous, very funny, GO.” |
