David Carey Foster is a stage and screen actor based in Los Angeles, California, born in 1960 on an American army base in Landstuhl, Germany. He spent his childhood moving around the United States with his family of five, driven by his parents' passion for travel and geographic diversity.
He attended Eldorado High School in Albuquerque, New Mexico, where he was bitten by the acting bug in his junior year after reading a John Masefield poem in an Introduction to Theatre class. He was cast in nearly every show for the next two years, and the fire was ignited.
David had a series of unusual after-school jobs, including a landscaping business, retrieving mis-hit balls at a local golf-course pond, cutting railroad ties, unloading nitroglycerin for a demolition company, and washing dishes at a dinner theatre.
After graduating high school in 1978, he won theatre scholarships from the three major universities in New Mexico and decided to attend Eastern New Mexico University to get the most stage time.
At ENMU, he had varied and plentiful stage roles, but after two years of study and his first professional gig, he started to feel the allure of more practical, real-world experience. A director suggested him for a contract at the Great American Melodrama on the central coast of California, and he jumped at the opportunity.
At "The Melodrama," David cut his eyeteeth as a professional actor, working six days a week in wide-ranging productions, greeting, seating, and serving patrons, and eventually becoming the on-stage emcee. It was a foundational year-long crash-course in sustained, interactive live-performance.
From there, David left the central coast and spent a good number of years working in regional theatre, traveling the country before finally finishing his degree at the University of Arizona and securing a handful of television roles.
After settling in Los Angeles, he began adding to his TV and film credits and started to diversify more earnestly into music and writing, forming a writing partnership with friend Todd Schroeder and later partnering with Thomas Lauifi to create a singing trio called Pepper Street.
Along the way, David also aligned with actor/musician Larry Poindexter to create a new rhythm and blues musical called "The Devil You Know" and continued developing other works for the stage, including a completed stage adaptation of Judith Guest's seminal work, "Ordinary People."
As a producer, David has worked for the Central Coast Repertory Theatre on productions of "My Children - My Africa," "Stieglitz Loves O'Keefe," "Voices of America," and "A Night at the Tony's" and at the Colony Theatre in Los Angeles on productions of "Einstein & the Polar Bear" and "The Cocktail Hour."
