David is a New Orleans based costume designer and assistant costume designer who has been working in costumes for almost two decades. His design work has spanned multiple genres including film, plays, musicals, opera, dance, puppetry and performance art.  All of which have informed and enhanced his abilities and his voice as a designer. In addition to designing, he was the last assistant to legendary costume designer Alvin Colt who designed his first show on Broadway, On the Town, in 1944 and did the costumes for the original production of Guys and Dolls.  While still in New York he cut his teeth in film when he co-designed the indie vampire feature The Lower Angels by writer/director Adam Hardman. 

His career since moving to New Orleans has been rich and diverse.  He designed and created the masks for the first season of Blumhouse’s The Purge series.  He jetted off to Budapest in the middle of a pandemic to work on Borderlands the Sci-fi video game feature directed by Eli Roth and starring Cate Blanchett, Jamie Lee Curtis and Kevin Hart.  He worked on John Lee Hancock’s adaptation of Stephen King’s Mr. Harrigan’s Phone in Connecticut with Donald Sutherland and Jaden Martell.  In New Orleans he assisted on the indie comedy The Estate, from writer/director Dean Craig, starring Toni Collette, Anna Faris, David Duchovny and Kathleen Turner.  And most recently he was in Moab, Utah working on the 1860’s western Horizon: An American Saga written, directed and starring Kevin Costner. 

David is a proud member of both The Costume Designers Guild Local 892 and Louisiana IATSE Local 478.