David Begelman

David Begelman is a graduate of the High School of Music and Art and studied art under Mark Rothko, trained as a dancer in New York City, and toured in summer stock in Maine and New Jersey. He attended The Actor's Workshop in New York City, studying with Paul Mann and Lloyd Richards.

Theatrical roles included the Ragpicker in Giradoux's The Madwoman of Chaillot, Menelaus in the off-Broadway production of Euripides' The Trojan Women, Big Daddy in Tennessee Williams' Cat On A Hot Tin Roof, Martin Luther in John Osborn's Luther, Guido in John Lewis Carlino's High Sign, the Devil in separate productions of Bernard Shaw's Don Juan in Hell, Don Juan in the Connecticut Stage production of the same play, Henry II in Anouilh's Becket and Otis H. Baker in The Andersonville Trial at the Sherman Playhouse. He appeared as Count Dracula in separate plays authored by Dean and Balderston and Ted Tiller, Tajomaru in Rashomon, Peter in the Actor's Repertory Company production of Edward Albee's The Zoo Story, the narrator in Peter and the Wolf, the exorcist Azrielke Ben Haddas in the road company of Ansky's The Dybbuk, Henry II in The Lion In Winter, and Benny Siverman in Jeffrey Sweet's The Value of Names. Shakespearean roles include featured roles in As You Like it and The Winter's Tale, Shylock in The Merchant of Venice, Lear in King Lear, Petruchio in Taming of the Shrew, Prospero in The Tempest and Theseus and Oberon in the Connecticut Stage production of A Midsummer Night's Dream. His singing roles include the Duke of Coffin Castle in James Thurber's The Thirteen Clocks, King Gamma in Gilbert and Sullivan's Princess Ida, and Sir in Roar of the Greasepaint, Smell of the Crowd.

He has done concert readings of the poetry of Dylan Thomas, including A Child's Christmas in Wales. He and the pianist Jack Wiliford performed Tennyson's Enoch Arden (with a score by Richard Strauss) for the Litchfield Performing Arts. He is currently drama and film critic for The Citizen News of New Fairfield, Connecticut.