David Andrew Gregory (born August 19, 1985) is an American actor and writer. He portrayed Robert Ford on the soap opera ''

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'' from 2009 until the show ended in 2012. He wrote and produced “Powder Burns”, the scripted Western podcast starring

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as a blind sheriff, which premiered on Apple Podcasts in 2015 to rave reviews and earned Gregory a Voice Arts Award in 2017. On TV, he was a recurring actor on ''

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'', '' Insatiable'', ''

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'', and ''

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''.

Early life

Gregory was born and raised in

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, as the middle of three sons. He danced at North Star Ballet and did plays with Fairbanks Drama Association and Fairbanks Light Opera Theater. In the summer of 2003, prior to his senior year of high school, Gregory attended

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and took home one of the institution's top honors, The Maddy Award for Excellence in Musical Theater, for his role as the Fairy Godmother in ''

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''. He began his collegiate study at Baldwin-Wallace College (now

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), where appeared as Owen in Brian Friel's ''Translations'', Oberon in ''

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'', and as Creon in Seamus Heaney's '' The Burial at Thebes'', for which he won the theater department's award for Best Actor in a Play. In 2008, he graduated with a Bachelor of Music degree in musical theatre. The same year, he earned his Equity card while appearing in ''The Full Monty'' for the now-defunct

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Career

Gregory made his professional debut in 2005 at Porthouse Theater as Riff in ''

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''. During college, he also appeared as Ferdinand in ''

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'' for

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and its sister company,

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. David began a two-week stint on ABC's ''

'' in the summer of 2009. He was offered a contract that fall and stayed with the show until its cancellation. After ''One Life to Live'' ended in 2012, Gregory guest-starred on multiple television series, including a season-long arc on the short-lived NBC series ''

''. In 2014, he appeared in Hartford Stage's ''

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'', earning a Connecticut Critics Circle Award nomination and appearing on the cover of ''American Theater'' magazine in the role the next year. Gregory's audio Western, "Powder Burns," won the

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for Outstanding Storytelling/Best Performance for an episode dealing with Alzheimer's disease.

and

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starred opposite Gregory in the episode.

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hailed the production as "Darn Good Entertainment. The Future of Westerns." Gregory's play ''Hank & Jim Build a Plane'' was workshopped at the

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, and at

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in New Orleans. The drama follows

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and

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, best friends, movie stars, yet political opposites as they grapple with their differences on the night Henry's daughter Jane takes her famous trip to Vietnam. The play has been optioned by Tony Award-winning producers Jack W. Batman and Bruce Robert Harris at SunnySpot Productions in New York. In June 2023, Gregory starred as Juror #8 in a sold-out run of ''

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'' at The Powerhouse Theatre in New Canaan, Connecticut.

Personal life

Gregory lives and works in New York City, with his wife, Broadway performer Jennifer Noble. They have been together since college.

Filmography

Film

Television

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Gregory, David Andrew 1985 births Living people 21st-century American male actors Male actors from Alaska American male soap opera actors American male television actors Baldwin Wallace University alumni Male models from Alaska Writers from Fairbanks, Alaska