David Tarkenter

Clown

Most recently to be seen in The Knight of the Burning Pestle at The Globe Theatre, David was a long time member of The Mercury Theatre acting company under Dee Evans. His many credits include Tortoise to Lizzie Twells Hare, Jack and the Beanstalk, Arsenic and Old Lace, Absent Friends, Aladdin, The Winter’s Tale, The Rivals, The Grapes of Wrath, King David – Man of Blood, Under Milk Wood, Depot, The Lonesome West, Dick Whittington and the Pi-rats of the Caribbean, David Copperfield, Two, Coriolanus, She Stoops to Conquer, Death of a Salesman, Of Mice and Men, The Resistible Rise of Arturo, Twelfth Night and To Kill a Mockingbird.

Other theatre credits include: Starry, Starry Night and Pantomime for Lakeside Theatre, University of Essex; Remember Jim (Theatre of Moths tour); Long John Silver in Treasure Island (Northern Broadsides tour), The Collection, Hamlet and Betrayal (Rapture Theatre Company); The Recruiting Officer, Our Country’s Good, The Birthday Party, The Deep Blue Sea, Frozen, Season’s Greetings, Kiss of the Spiderwoman and The Tennant of Wildfell Hall (Theatre by the Lake, Keswick); Under the Apple Tree, Bagsy Me and The Family Cook Book (all Cleveland Theatre Company); Rafferty’s Café (Quondam Theatre Company); The Singing Ringing Tree (CTC with NTC Touring); Time Windows, The Sleeping Beauty, Rumpelstiltskin, Scheherezade, The Old Curiosity Shop, Pinocchio, The Flag, As You Like It, Mary Barton and Tartuffe (all for NTC Touring); and Cinderella, Aladdin and Snow White (The Sands Centre, Carlisle).

Television and film credits include Falling (YTV), Harry (BBC), Quayside (Zenith/Tyne Tees), Heartbeat and Micawber (YTV), Inspector Rebus (Clerkenwell Films), The King of the Road (Granada/Tyne Tees/Pilgrim Films), Danny and his Amazing Teeth (Ipso Facto Films), Byker Grove (BBC/Zenith), 55 Degrees North (BBC) and Lawless (Company Pictures).

David has also worked extensively as a voice over artist, including recording numerous audio books, commercials and radio Plays.