David Pustansky

David Pustansky is an English actor, presenter, writer and director. The son of an artist and a teacher, David was born in London, but lived most of his early life in Buckinghamshire. Having been an art student, David didn't become involved in the performing arts world until the age of eighteen when he saw an advert in a local newspaper to audition to take part in Charles Dance's feature directional debut 'Ladies In Lavender'. Having spent one day working on the film, David decided to pursue a career in acting. Leaving the film set behind, David began working his way up from the bottom, first auditioning for community theatre productions, and studying drama at college. David's first successes as a performer, and especially as a writer and director came whilst David was studying at college and University when David entered two separate short film competitions run by the BBC. David produced two animated shorts for competitions relating to the sitcom Red Dwarf, for which David's first short; The Planetoid Of The Cats was announced as a Commendable Runner Up and was later featured on the Red Dwarf Series 7 BBC DVD. His second Red Dwarf based short film placed second in a BBC Worldwide competition on YouTube which was judged by Kryten actor Robert Llewellyn. Upon announcing the results, Llewellyn described David's short as having 'a beautiful script'. Further focusing on acting, David earned a place on the BBC Talent Boost course of actor training at the Actor's Centre London which lead to David playing Scott in the Rikki Beadle Blair directed film '7 Dials'. Shortly after this role David gained a place at Drama Studio London where he trained for two years as a professional actor. Whilst there he wrote two short films, 'Sisters' and 'Monster In The Box'. Also whilst in training David started The ImProDigies Theatre Company, which focused on creating long and short form improv comedy shows. With The ImProDigies David directed shows at some of London's top fringe venues including The Roundhouse Studio Theatre, The Tristan Bates Theatre and The Etcetera. After leaving Drama Studio London David began a very busy and varied career in the performing arts industry which saw David branch out into more areas beyond acting. David evolved The ImProDigies to become Sparky Buddy Proiductions, a film and theatre production company which within it's first eighteen months of existence was involved in the production of three feature films, eight shorts, two documentaries, two music videos and two commercials. David Pustansky starred in leading roles in the feature films Last Man Standing and Aylesbury Dead. David also wrote, directed and starred in the short films Scratch which co-starred Brendan Carr and Eliza Leonard, and The Brooding in which David played a reformed supervillian. David's most ambitious directional project was the the traditional rotoscoped animated film The Battle Of Aylesbury, for which David had to hand draw over 13,000 frames of animation. Set during the English Civil War this film took over six months to complete, but was met with great praise upon it's release.