David Alford

David is an actor, director, writer, and teacher from Adams, Tennessee, a short drive from Nashville. He was founder and Artistic Director of Mockingbird Theatre, and later Executive Artistic Director of Tennessee Repertory Theatre (now Nashville Rep). He has directed over forty professional and academic productions.

David appeared as Bucky Dawes in the television series Nashville for its six seasons. Other screen credits include The Good Fight (CBS) The Blacklist (NBC), and The Last Castle (DreamWorks). His nearly seventy professional theatre roles include recent credits as Mr. Marshall in the Broadway revival of Little Foxes (Manhattan Theatre Club), and Billy in the premiere of Donald Margulies’ Long Lost (Illinois Theatre). His critically acclaimed one-man performance of Truman Capote’s A Christmas Memory has been a holiday staple in Nashville since 1995.

David currently serves as Visiting Professor of Acting at Baldwin Wallace University near Cleveland, Ohio.