David Knijnenburg

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Lonny

David Knijnenburg's involvement with the Arts began in 1988 when he was a youngtelevision presenter at World Expo '88 working for NHK Japanese Television. He followed that by studying a bachelor of Arts/Law at Queensland University concentrating on drama, linguistics and singing. He spent several years travelling the globe before settling in London where he made further study and did theatre, film and commercial work. David has performed in various theat resin Brisbane and surrounds including La Boite, Gold Coast Arts Centre, Sydney Street Theatre, Ipswich Civic Centre, Nash Theatre, Brisbane ArtsTheatre, Gold Coast Little Theatre, Cremorne Theatre and Visy Theatre at the Powerhouse. In 2002 David completed work on the commissioned short film About Face starring Leisa Barry-Smith, Liddy Clark, Karen Crone, John Dommett, Michael Futcher, Caroline Kennison and Muriel Watson, which he wrote, directed and in which he also starred. David worked as producer for the live link on an American Network TV Pilot and as a dutch politician on the SBS series (s)truth. He has taught speech and drama for the Studio Nine Drama School and takes private classes in accent and dialect. In 2004 he played the role of the Vicar in Twelfth Night Theatre's smash hit production of Dad's Army, which toured South-East Queensland and in 2005, New Zealand. He also performed for Twelfth Night alongside Jon English, Steve Haddan, Chris Betts and Karen Crone in Run For Your Wife and in October 2006 reprised his performance as Alfred Hitchcock in his Matilda Award Nominated production Hitchcock & Herrmann as part of the Melbourne Fringe Festival. His film and television work includes Scooby Doo ,Virtual Nightmare, Counterstrike, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Lost World, Walk The Talk, Stepsister From The Planet Weird and Deep Impact. He will soon be seen as one of the leads alongside Lafe Charlton in the short film Deadline which has been chosen for pre-selection at Cannes.