David Warshofsky

For the last 15 years, David has evolved the MFA Acting program at the USC School of Dramatic Arts and currently is a full professor and Director of the program that began in 2006 under the stewardship of Andy Robinson. As an actor, his professional acting career began as an intern at The La Jolla Playhouse. He made his Broadway debut in Neil Simon’s Biloxi Blues. Additional Broadway credits include Carousel at Lincoln Center (The Nicholas Hytner revival that launched the career of Audra Ann MacDonald) and the inauspicious On the Waterfront (which opened and closed in a week). Most recently David appeared as Weston (called “ferocious" by the New Yorker Magazine) in the 2019 Signature Theatre revival of Sam Shepard's Curse of the Starving Class. Other stage credits include Blue Window at MTC, Romance Language at Playwright’s Horizons, the national tours of Biloxi Blues and South Pacific and David Mamet’s The Old Neighborhood at the Geffen Playhouse. He originated the role of “Gottfried Swetts” in Tony Kushner’s A Bright Room Called Day and collaborated with Tony to direct the premiere of the reboot in 2018 at USC. ​ Film credits include Blonde, There Will Be Blood, The Master, Lincoln, Beatriz at Dinner, The Future, Captain Phillips, Now You See me (1&2) Last Exit To Brooklyn, Born On The Fourth Of July, and the Taken films (1&3). Television credits include Barry, Ordinary Joe, Scandal, Fear Of The Walking Dead, and numerous Law & Orders. ​ David is an NYU Graduate Acting Alumn.