David Proffitt

David Proffitt was born in Cincinnati, Ohio and with his father actively serving in the Air Force, David lived on base in Turkey, Germany, and the Philippines until returning stateside at the age of seven and growing up in the Dallas Fort worth area. David obtained his GED during his junior year at Garland High School and with parental consent enlisted in the Army starting basic training at the age of seventeen. He served as an active duty infantryman in South Korea with the United Nations Command Honor Guard and then in Fort Drum, New York with the 10th Mountain Division. During his last six months at Ft. Drum David took classes at a near by college, SUNY Oswego, where he decided to remain after his Honorable discharge and obtained his Bachelors of Science in Zoology. He then moved to Anaheim, California where his father resided and began an internship at the Aquarium of the Pacific working with Marine Mammals while doing production assistant work and extra work before moving to San Diego to further his animal training career. For the next five years he trained animals as small as a pigeon to as large as a pilot whale while working at Joel Slaven's Pets Rule, Seaworld and the United States Navy Marine Mammal Program, but after government budget cuts led to layoffs in the program leading David back to film sets in search of work and putting him on his current path. His military experience payed dividends allowing him to serve as a military expert consultant on HBO's VEEP. Always seeking the fastest way to learn and grow David next began studying at various well known acting schools in LA while working exclusively as a stand in for the next year in order to shadow seasoned actors while learning the art of film making. Now fully in love and immersed in everything that goes into film making he is either on set acting, auditioning, in class or creating content on his own.