David Craik MA(UCL) RSA Dip

Started his career at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School,  where he trained in classical acting and theatre arts and at the renowned Bristol Old Vic Company there. His training also included
appearances for BBC TV Bristol.

In the  seventies he gained invaluable 16mm Arriflex film camera experience with the BBC Film Club and worked as production manager and camera operator (16mm Aaton and Beaulieu cameras) on an Italian Educational film.

His career in acting and directing has incorporated Theatre (Repertory/The National Theatre/West End/Theatre-in-Education/Fringe); Television (The Benny Hill Show); Film ("Carry On Henry"/"Jack the Ripper" - Assistant to the executive producer at Pinewood Studios); Corporate Videos; three Rock Band "pop-promos".

He is a founding director of the Man in the Moon Theatre (1981-2003) where he was also Artistic Director, co-producer and script adviser.

In the mid eighties he founded ADC Films specialising in locally based advertising projects in London and Eire as well as filming a specially scripted stage production of "Billy Liar". In  1985 he was invited to teach at the newly founded Academy Drama School in Whitechapel where his teaching covered not only theatre acting but incorporated screen acting techniques on locations in London. He has been Head of Voice there for several years and has directed over twenty student productions there, covering classical Greek Drama through to Alan Ayckbourn. He now runs Award-Winning Quest Theatre Company (founded 1990) which participates at International Arts Festivals abroad.

The International School of Screen Acting is his latest venture which is serving to consolidate his broad background experience which also serves to deliver more to ISSA students.

In 1994 he gained his Master's Degree in Anthropology of Art at University college London,  where he specialised in the Anthropology of Performance, Ceremony, Ritual and Ethnographic Film making.  He is currently engaged in brain-scanning experiments in 'Role-play' and 'Pretend-play', which he has co-authored and filmed at the Wellcome Centre for Neuro-Imaging Science.

His professional work in acting and directing has taken him to Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, Eire and  as far afield as Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil, former Yugoslavia, Poland and Romania.