ABOUT
David Hope is a highly acclaimed educational/professional theatre director, teacher, actor, writer, and producer with 40 years of accomplished experience. His students have won more than 550 district, state, and national awards, including 57 state championships, in all areas of theatre and public speaking. His productions have been invited for performance at both national and international theatre festivals. He has performed in churches throughout the United States and beyond with his one man drama ministry on the life of Christ and has been proclaimed as, “One of America’s greatest dramatic Christian storytellers.” Mr. Hope is a past recipient of the Alabama Conference of Theatre’s “Outstanding Theatre Educator” award. He has been honored by the Alabama State Board of Education as a former finalist for the “Alabama Teacher of the Year.”
David believes children should be loved, cuddled, and encouraged to develop one of the most important gifts they all possess, their imagination! He has spent his life teaching and inspiring children, young people and adults of all ages to IMAGINE and CREATE! He and his wife, Cathie, live in the beautiful Renaissance City of Florence, Alabama.