Writer/Performer

Dennis is an actor, writer, director, and multi-media storyteller. Recent acting credits include Uncle Peck in Paula Vogel’s How I Learned To Drive (Actors’ Shakespeare Project), Henry Wilcox in Matthew Lopez's The Inheritance, parts 1 and 2 (Speakeasy Stage), Let The Right One In, and The Merchant of Venice (Actors' Shakespeare Project).

Additionally, he has appeared at New Rep, Gloucester Stage, Company One, Lyric Stage, Soho Rep, The Flea, The Kraine, and others.

As a playwright, his plays include Manifest Destiny's Child (Edinburgh Festival Fringe), Plug, ("A clever, infectious, caffeinated jolt" – Village Voice) and I Coulda Been A Kennedy ("an ambitious yawp of a play, surreal and boisterous and full of political choler." – Time Out NY).

In New York, Trainor was the founding co-artistic director of the Rude Mechanicals Theater Company, where he worked as a producer, actor, director, and writer. He was also was part of the first cohort of “the Bats,” an Obie Award-winning acting company in residence at the Flea Theater.

Directing in credits include Antigone or And Still She Must Rise Up (Boston Conservatory), The Trojan Women: A Love Story (Stonehill College), Plug, and A Midsummer Night's Dream (Rude Mechanicals).

As a filmmaker, his on-the-ground documentary on the Occupy movement, American Autumn: an Occudoc garnered critical acclaim ("Calm, and smart, offsetting its stridency with humor" – New York Times, "Impresses where many docs disappoint" – Variety). He was the creator, host, and producer of two nationally syndicated T.V. programs: Acronym T.V. and The Resistance Report ("Cuts through the crap, tells the truth and can even make you laugh"- HuffPost Live).

Dennis is on the Boston Conservatory at Berklee faculty, where he teaches acting in the B.F.A program. He holds an M.F.A. in Acting from the American Conservatory Theater Trainor is a member of The Dramatists Guild and an Actors' Equity Association member.

DIRECTOR

World premieres include: Edward Albee’s The Goat or Who is Sylvia? (Broadway) and The Play About the Baby (Century), Lady From Dubuque (Signature Inaugural), The Ride Down Mt. Morgan (Broadway) and Resurrection Blues by Arthur Miller, Angels in America: Millenium Approaches/ Perestroika and Homebody/Kabul by Tony Kushner, Neal Bell’s Therese Raquin, In the Blood by Suzan-Lori Parks, Albom/Hatcher’s Tuesdays With Morrie, Memory House by Kathleen Tolan (Playwrights Horizons), Ariel Dorfman’s Purgatorio, Moira Buffini’s Gabriel and Peter Parnell’s Trumpery (Atlantic), Allison and Margaret Engels’ Molly Ivins/Red Hot Patriot (PTC) Kriedler’s Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (Arena Stage) Christopher Hampton’s Appomattox, The Great Gatsby (Guthrie)

Revivals include: Glass Menagerie (Shanghai, China), Much Ado About Nothing and Measure for Measure (NYSF Delatorre), Driving Miss Daisy (Broadway, London and Australia), Death of a Salesman (Dublin), Hamlet (TFNY), A Few Good Men and Shawshank Redemption (London), All My Sons, Confederacy of Dunces (Huntington), The Normal Heart (Public), Lady From Dubuque, Mud and Drowning (Signature), The Entertainer, The Maids, Endgame, Entertaining Mr. Sloane (CSC), Hedda Gabler, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Summer and Smoke (Guthrie), Farmyard (NY Theatre Workshop).

David has served as Artistic Director of NYC Classic Stage Company and Seattle Repertory Theatre and served for ten years as the Chair of the MGSA Conservatory and created the 3.5 program at Rutgers University.

Awards include: OBIE’s for Outstanding Direction—Hamlet and Therese Raquin, What’s On Stage Award (London)–Driving Miss Daisy, Lucille Lortel Awards–Entertaining Mr. Sloane and Classic Stage Company “Body of Work”, Lady From Dubuque nomination Best Revival, Drama Desk nominations–Endgame, Iphigenia and Other Daughters and Lady From Dubuque, 2015 IRNE Award Best Director, Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner”, nominations for All My Sons”, Drama League nominations: The Entertainer and Play About the Baby, LA Critics Award–Equivocation, Cab Calloway nomination for The Normal Heart, Friends of NY Theatre “Best Director”–The Ride Down Mt. Morgan, Seven Bay Area Critics Awards–Angels in America.