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DAVID HENRY GERSON - ON CAMERA PERFORMANCE REEL

DAVID HENRY GERSON has trained as an actor in New York City with Wynn Handman and William Esper (Meisner Technique), in Los Angeles with Ivana Chubbuck, and in London at the British American Drama Academy. He holds a BA from Columbia University where he studied English, Film, Theatre and Visual Arts. Film and television credits include David Mamet's FOX TV Show 'The UNIT,' the leading role in the short film 'Junior,' as well as PBS and various commercial projects. His stage acting credits include the role of Stanley Kowalski in 'A Streetcar Named Desire' (NYC), Sir Willful Witwoud in 'The Way of the World' (London), Count Almaviva in 'The Marriage of Figaro' (NYC - Dir. Diane Paulus), and the role of young Bertram in 'All’s Well That Ends Well' (The Shakespeare Theatre, DC - Dir. Michael Kahn). In 2007, he co-produced and directed the US Premiere of Mick Gordon and AC Grayling’s ‘theatre essay’ entitled 'On Religion.' With actor and filmmaker Sirak M. Sabahat, he co-founded Exodus Films, a film company committed to effecting social change. He currently resides in New York.

RECENT THEATER WORK:

• 2/24-3/6/2010: DHG plays the role of Creon in Euripides' 'Medea' at the Kraine Theater (85 East 4th St. New York, NY)
  

• 10/24/2009: David Henry Gerson plays the role of Dr. Rank in Henrik Ibsen's 'A Doll's House' in the Hamptons with Anna Gutto, Frank Harts, Raymond McAnally and Maria-Christina Oliveras.

• 10/15-18/2009: DHG plays Jim, a Russian crook in American Suburbia in Will Snider's new play 'Crocodile' at the Player's Theater on MacDougal St.

• July/2009: DHG plays Stanley Kowalski in Tennessee Williams' 'A Streetcar Named Desire' with Emma Jaster, Clarke Levidiotis, and Raphael Bob-Waksberg. Directed by Lacy Post. Performed outdoors in a community garden in New York's Alphabet City. (See below to watch video.)

• March/2008: DHG plays Jake in Harold Pinter's 'Moonlight' with the Aporia Reperatory Theater in New York.
  

"David Gerson gives a stellar performance as Jake and handles Pinter's subtext with an impressive synthesis of restraint and urgency. Delivering his lines with a coy grin and an almost poetic rhythm, Gerson's Jake is all confidence and bravado. With a commanding presence, Gerson as Jake at first seems to have both emotionally and geographically distanced himself from his family. Over the course of the play, however, both the audience and Jake himself begin to doubt his easy detachment. Eventually Jake, like his father, begins to question his confident actions and speeches. With alarming rawness, Gerson three times repeats "What is being said?." Each time he asks this his voice grows more and more fragile and the audience fully comprehends Jake's struggle to realize the meaning, or lack there of, of his words. - BWOG.org

RECENT FILM/TELEVISION WORK:

• 4/26/2009: David Henry Gerson co-stars as an alleged statutory rapist on 'THE UNIT,' the CBS TV series created by David Mamet. UNIT EPISODE 4/20 : CHAOS THEORY. Directed by Gwyneth Horder-Payton.

DAVID HENRY GERSON on DAVID MAMET's 'THE UNIT.' from David Henry Gerson on Vimeo.

RECENT PRODUCTION WORK:

• 'Ultra Violet for Sixteen Minutes': 16:00 - Documentary. "Totally engaging." - Albert Maysles. Ultra Violet, former Warhol "superstar," member of Salvador Dali's intimate inner circle, and a significant artist herself, speaks of her life and of her rebirth. After breaking off an affair with painter Ed Ruscha, Ultra Violet finds herself clinically dead and seeking God's forgiveness. Her spirit returns to her body, and she soon becomes a born-again Christian, then Mormon. In this film, she poses for a contemporary screen-test and speaks on her life, fame, and the relationship of art and religion, of artists and divine messengers. Includes photographs from her past and Andy Warhol's screen-test of Ultra Violet from the 1960's. Directed by David Henry Gerson. Edited by Dov Yellin. (see below for trailer)
  
  
  

• 11/4/2009: 'A Change Had Come:' 8:51 - Documentary. On November 4th, 2008, Curtis Brown, Pastor of the Highways and Hedges Baptist Church in New Bern, North Carolina sings Sam Cooke's "A Change is Gonna Come" with a twist - he states, "A Change HAS Come." After the historic election of Barack Obama, Pastor Brown speaks of the change that had come. Featuring Curtis Brown, Eli Lichter-Marck, members of the Obama for America Campaign and the Democratic Party members of New Bern, North Carolina. Photographed and Produced by David Henry Gerson. Edited by Dov Yellin. (viewable below)

• 12/17/2008: 'Behind the Ingredients' - Joan Nathan talks with chef Daniel Rose in his Parisian Restaurant, 'Spring.' Produced by David Henry Gerson for The New York Times. (Click below logo for video)
  

• April 2007: The US Premiere of 'On Religion' - a 'theatre-essay" by Mick Gordon and AC Grayling.
  "a play, an experiment, a meditation... gripping theatre." -Sunday London Times

  ON RELIGION premiered in November 2006 at the SoHo Theatre in London to rave reviews. In its US Premiere at Columbia University, theater is brought to the academic arena to challenge one of today's most controversial and demanding topics. In ON RELIGION, Grace, a militant atheist, clashes with her recently converted Christian son. When he is suddenly killed in a suicide bombing, the conflict between her grief and her principles threatens to rip her and her family apart.

  Directed by David Henry Gerson. With Marguerite Van Cook, Ana Cruz Kayne, John Beck, and Tim Hayes. Music by Anton Glamb, and Video design by Alex Koch.
  

  
  Post-show discussion and gospel-band reception will follow each evening performance. ON RELIGION is a Columbia University production sponsored by The Augustine Club, The Bhakti Club, The Columbia Forum of Science and Religion, CUARTS, The Current, CU Players, Hillel, The Inter-faith Fund, The Italian Academy, The Kraft Fund, The Muslim Student Association, The Office of the University Chaplain, The President and Provost's Fund, SGB and Towards Reconciliation. (click below icons for respective reviews.)

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