David Lyndon is a Welsh-born actor and drama practitioner who has worked internationally in the performing arts. A first-class honours graduate of the University of Birmingham’s Department of Drama & Theatre Arts, he was also a leading member of the National Youth Theatre of Great Britain for several seasons. Subsequent roles have included Gerry in Dancing at Lughnasa (New Vic Theatre, Stoke); Boone in Whistle Down the Wind (national tour); Danny in Dreaming Amelia (Hijinx Theatre); Frank’n’Furter in The Rocky Horror Show (Casino de Paris & Teatro Nuovo, Milan); Konstantin in The Seagull, Leigh in Can’t Pay? Won’t Pay! and Bassanio in The Merchant of Venice (Swan Theatre, Worcester); Sky Masterson in Guys & Dolls, Oberon in A Midsummer Night’s Dream and The Dentist in Little Shop of Horrors (Aberystwyth Arts Centre); Victor in Yerma (Battersea Arts), Jaques in As You Like It (Dudley Castle); Topper in Scrooge (national tour); Plebeian in Julius Caesar (RSC, Barbican) and France in King Lear (Clwyd Theatr Cymru). West End appearances include the role of Hugo in Aspects of Love  (Prince of Wales Theatre) and concert versions of My One & Only, Nine and The Hired Man. In pantomime he has played Prince Charming more times than he cares to remember. 

David works in both English and Welsh television where his credits have included the returning role of Fenner in the BBC Cymru soap Pobol y Cwm and The Man in Hidden, as well as roles in Iechyd Da and Darn o Dir. He has also provided the narration for several episodes of the popular local-interest series Five Days in… for BBC2W. On the Welsh-language stage he portrayed the tortured evangelist Evan Roberts in the large-scale musical Hen Rebel for the National Theatre of Wales.

David has been awarded a doctorate for his research into actor training and has been a guest lecturer in several colleges and universities, as well as directing final-year students in a number of productions including Tissue, Godspell and Death of a Salesman. He is also a qualified massage therapist and has been initiated as a Reiki master.