Dave Roberts is an actor and writer who appeared in
American Cannibal.
Roberts began his career in entertainment in his home town of New York City. He landed his first jobs at stage productions off-Broadway while studying acting at
Tisch School of the Arts
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at
New York University
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.
Roberts worked with
Philip McMann and the Leadfoot Theatre, which led to voice-over roles for local radio spots and clients such as New York Sports Clubs, Playbill.com, Macklowe Properties and KBC Media. This, in turn, led to commercial work and regional theatre. After signing with a talent agency, Dave was cast as a recurring voice-over on the
anime
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hit ''
The Elan''.
While performing in ''
Henry V Henry V may refer to:
People
* Henry V, Duke of Bavaria (died 1026)
* Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor (1081/86–1125)
* Henry V, Duke of Carinthia (died 1161)
* Henry V, Count Palatine of the Rhine (c. 1173–1227)
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'' in Toronto the summer of 1999, Roberts auditioned for an avant-garde local TV production called ''MasterStroke'' and was cast as its lead. The comic soap opera aired for only a short time on Ontario's
Star Ray TV but gained acclaim for its star and its young director,
Gil Ripley. The two like-minded artists became quick friends and began a writing partnership that led to their co-founding
KanDu Productions the following year (2000). They also undertook editorship of ''
The Festival Rag'', a monthly online newsletter devoted to the independent film world and published by the entertainment portal
Kemek.
KanDu's TV comedy projects have ranged from sitcoms to full-length screenplays, as well as reality-based TV programming. In 2001, Roberts and Ripley wrote ''
Homewrocker'', a rock-n-roll sitcom that made the rounds of domestic cable before finding a home on Japan's
NHK
, also known as NHK, is a Japanese public broadcaster. NHK, which has always been known by this romanized initialism in Japanese, is a statutory corporation funded by viewers' payments of a television license fee.
NHK operates two terrestr ...
. In 2004, they wrote and shot the pilot for ''Psychotic Episodes'', an experimental comedy series now in review by a major network.
Roberts lives in
Manhattan
Manhattan (), known regionally as the City, is the most densely populated and geographically smallest of the five boroughs of New York City. The borough is also coextensive with New York County, one of the original counties of the U.S. state ...
with his wife and two daughters.
External links
*
KanDu Productions
References
American male television actors
Tisch School of the Arts alumni
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
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