Dave Pressler

Born in Chicago, David Pressler moved to Los Angeles at just 21 years old, studying and performing at the Theater East Workshop during the 1980s. He won a Dramalogue award for his role in the play "Soldiers" in 1990, shortly thereafter appearing in a sprinkling of several television shows, and traveling north towards Santa Barbara to perform with Comedy Sports improvisational comedy until 1993. Pressler made a dramatic career shift in the early 1990s, learning character and production design, and developing kids programming for multiple networks. His debut foray into this world was with the Jim Henson Company in the mid 90s where he did production design for "Brats of the Lost Nebula." He has art directed and designed characters for "The Save-Um's" (2002) for Discover Kids, which was nominated for a daytime Emmy. He additionally lent his art skills to "Team Smithereen" (2009) for Disney XD. Pressler was the executive producer and co-creator for the animated series "Robot and Monster" (2012) on Nickelodeon, and nominated once again for a daytime Emmy for outstanding Children's animated program in its debut season. More recently he has been exploring stop motion animation by directing and producing "How To Do Everything With Garrick and Marvin" (2014) for Dreamworks TV. Amidst all of this action, Pressler has continued to tap into his improv background, working with Bernard Rose on his series of independent films of Tolstoy short stories including "The Kreutzer Sonata" (2007), "Boxing Day" (2009), "2 Jacks" (2011), and Rose's reinterpretation of Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein" (2015).