David Leyshon

Musical Theatre Presentation 1; Musical Theatre Presentation 5

David Leyshon has been a professional actor in Canada for the last 20 years. Selected theatre credits: Tevye in Fiddler of the Roof, Henry Higgins in My Fair Lady (Port Hope); Vigilante (Catalyst, National Tour); Sherlock Holmes in Baskerville (Stage West); One For The Pot, Run for Your Wife, Perfect Wedding (Drayton); It’s A Wonderful Life (Theatre Aquarius, Persephone, Chemainus); Art, Billy Bishop Goes to War, The Girl in The Goldfish Bowl (Theatre Northwest); The Comedy of Errors, The Importance of Being Earnest, Miracle on 34th Street (Neptune Theatre); A Few Good Men (Citadel/RMTC); The 39 Steps, Cinderella (Globe Theatre); Little Women, The Three Musketeers (Citadel Theatre); Guys and Dolls (Chemainus); Little Shop of Horrors (Persephone); An Ideal Husband, The Fantasticks (Theatre Calgary); MMLJWW (Mirvish); Hamlet, The Taming of The Shrew, All’s Well That Ends Well (Stratford Festival); seven season with the Shaw Festival, favourites include The Importance of Being Earnest, Major Barbara and Happy End. Directing credits include: I Love You…Now Change, A Closer Walk with Patsy Cline (Souris Valley Theatre); If I Weren’t With You (Lunchbox Theatre). Selected Film and TV: Murdoch Mysteries. David is a part-time instructor at Sheridan College in Shakespeare and Chekhov, and has taught for The Stratford Festival, University of Regina and the Calgary Actor’s Studio. Currently in performance as Sky Masterson in Guys and Dolls at the Capitol in Port Hope, later this summer he will appear in Prairie Nurse at the Lighthouse Theatre. David holds a BFA from the University of Regina, a Certificate in Arts Education from York University/Stratford Festival, and was a participant in the Banff/Citadel Program, 2011.