David Brooks

Who was David Brooks?

David Brooks was an American actor, singer, director, and producer who first drew critical acclaimation starring in several Broadway musicals during the 1940s, including portraying Tommy Albright in the original production of Brigadoon.

In the early 1950s he was an important stage director in the avant-garde theatre scene of Milan, Italy. He returned to the United States during the mid-1950s and worked principally as a stage director and producer for over a decade. He was instrumental in producing the United States premieres of a number of works by Eugène Ionesco and Samuel Beckett, and remained active as an actor up until the 1980s.