About me
David Becker hails from Richmond, Virginia. Apart from voice dialect coaching, he is the theatre director and technical theatre director at Charlottesville High School where he has taught for the past 9 years. He has also appeared in summer opera and musical theatre productions throughout the country Bay View, Michigan and Ashlawn Highland, as well as at Shenandoah Summer Musical Theater, Virginia Rep, and Heritage Theatre Festival in Charlottesville, Virginia. Previous dialect and vocal coaching credits include UVA; dialect coaching of Seven Guitars, James Madison University; dialect coaching of Arcadia, Sweeney Todd, Our Country’s Good, and Boeing Boeing. Past noteworthy mainstage productions include Les Miserables, Sweeney Todd, Hairspray, Aida, The 39 Steps, RENT, Into the Woods and most recently, A Raisin in the Sun, South Pacific, The Tempest, and Chicago. He holds an MFA in Theater Pedagogy from Virginia Commonwealth University, and a BFA in Musical Theater from Shenandoah University.