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 David Prete is a writer, actor, director who lived and worked in NYC for fifteen years before moving to Memphis. “For Goodness Sake” is the second play he has developed and directed for Voices of the South, the first being Cindy Cranford’s “Jack.” He teaches solo performance workshops for VOTS, private acting classes for teens and adults through Colors Agency, Theatre Memphis and The Hutchison School. He graduated from New Actors Workshop where he studied with Mike Nichols (Tony and Academy Award winning director of The Graduate, Primary Colors, The Birdcage, Angels in America,) and George Morrison who also taught Dustin Hoffman, Edie Falco, Gene Hackman and others. He co-founded Water Theatre Company where he worked as an actor and producer. He has also acted in independent films screened at the Santa Barbara Film Festival, the Long Island Film Festival, and the International Film Festival of NYC. He teaches a graduate course at The New School in New York City called “The Art of Public Readings.” His first book,
Say That to My Face, was published by W. W. Norton. He is currently at work on a novel entitled
Born to a River, also to be published by Norton.
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