The Life & Music of Woody Guthrie
WOODY SEZ
Devised by David M. Lutken with Nick Corley
and Darcie Deaville, Helen J. Russell & Andy Teirstein
David Finch
David is an actor and multi-instrumentalist and has played beside artists as diverse as Alan Cumming, Serj Tankian, Tony Bennett, Amanda Palmer, Kylie Minogue and Dee Snider in venues ranging from Lincoln Center to San Francisco’s Castro Theatre.
As a member of the cast of the Tony award-winning revival of Sam Mendes’ and Rob Marshall’s Cabaret, he performed on Broadway and toured the U.S., Canada and Japan. His West End debut was with Evening Standard Best Musical nominee Woody Sez and in 2015 he returned to London to play the chromatic harmonica and the part of the Mock Turtle at the Barbican Concert Hall with the
BBC Symphony Orchestra in Unsuk Chin and David Henry Hwang’s opera – Alice in Wonderland – he also played the role in the L.A. Philharmonic’s production at the Walt Disney Concert Hall.
Other productions of Woody Sez include the Edinburgh Fringe and Glasgow Celtic Connection Festivals as well as theatres across the U.S. including the American Repertory Theatre, Milwaukee Rep., Cleveland Playhouse the Asolo Rep. and many more.
David’s off-Broadway credits include John Doyle’s re-adaptation of Allegro, Fame on 42nd Street and Spring Storm.
He toured Europe, the U.S. and Canada with Fame the Musical in which he performed here in Vienna at the Ronacher Theatre in 1997/98. Regionally he’s performed in Indian Joe, Prometheus Bound, Hank Williams’ Lost Highway, Grapes of Wrath, 1940s Radio Hour, Fiddler on the Roof, Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story and Cotton Patch Gospel.
David is proud to have been an Associate Producer at Broadway Cares/Equity Fights
AIDS in
NYC from 2004–2006. He is the co-creator of Careless Love: A Down Home Musical. Please visit dhfinch.com for more information.