David has worked as a professional roleplayer and trainer for training, recruitment and assessment centres across Britain and abroad since 1995. The work has taken him across Britain and Europe and into the US, Singapore, Taiwan and Japan...!

He works independently and through agencies such as Sold Out Trainers, Roleplays for Training, Interact, Actor Factor, Steps, Dramanon, and React Acting for Business.

Mostly the work is improvised or semi-scripted, working to a brief, frequently involving Forum Theatre techniques (self-facilitated or otherwise). David is also experienced in giving various forms of feedback, written or delivered directly.

This is work that David finds both highly enjoyable and rewarding: stretching the imagination and intellect, thinking fast, honing observational and feedback skills and ensuring that the characters he plays are not only utterly believable and consistent, but also pitched to the optimum level to both challenge and support the individuals concerned. He is very pleased to be able providing an invaluable and reliable resource to enhance each delegate's training and experience.

He is proud to be involved in a job which is not only enjoyable and challenging, but is also invariably respected and very highly valued by trainers and participants/delegates alike.

Clients

The many clients over the years for whom David has worked have included BT, Accenture, Pearson (Longman, Financial Times and Penguin), Barclays Capital, Lloyds TSB, BUPA, Domino, Vodafone, Orange, The General Medical Council, The London Fire Brigade, Marriott Hotels, Whitbread, TGI Friday, The College of Law, Pearl Assurance, Direct Line, The Ministry of Defence, Borough and County Councils, Cambridgeshire Constabulary, Marconi, The Inland Revenue, Visa, Nationwide, KPMG, Chelsea & Westminster and Guy's & St Thomas' Hospitals, Group4 Security, Greene King Breweries and BAE Systems top management team, who, among others, described his and his team's contribution as “World Class” .

Roles

Many and various roles have included office workers, sales reps, telephone operators, brewery operatives, engineers, council tenants, managers, financial directors and all manner of people in between. With his background in Science Teaching, David is also very comfortable in educational, scientific and technological areas and has frequently played teachers and headteachers.

David enjoys working alongside many excellent training companies including

Sold Out Trainers
Veasy and Rowe
Pharos 8
RADA for Business
Powertrain,
McKenna Breen Human Systems
Water for Fish and
Creative Forum
as well as many companies' in-house trainers.

As an actor David has played memorable characters in many corporate videos for inhouse training or conference use. These include:

A great and poor sales rep in a short film for Astra Zeneca directed by by Han Foo of Foo Films, "Baz", an almost "prehistorically" old school manager in the company "Liability Limited", again for Foo Films in asscociation with Catalyst HR Ltd, a Senior Board Members for Securicor and Group Four Securities, an Extremely Harrassed Office Worker for Ikon in the one-man “Photocopier Saga”, both directed by Harlan Cockburn for Malachy Malloy Associates, an Enthusiastic Photographer in “What's Your Passion?” directed by Richard Messina for Nikon and two videos by Chrome Productions.

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“David's skill and style bring strength, intelligence, fun, enthusiasm and vitality to all the work he does.”

David's science background makes him quite at home in all manner of presentations including technical, whilst his experiences in Facilitating, Tour guiding and presenting his interactive One-Man Shows give him the skills to command, enchant, entice and inspire all manner of audiences.

Aside from his extensive teaching work (1985-2004) in a wide variety of secondary and Primary school environments, David has presented various projects. These include:

“Tomorrows World Live” DFEE stand with Johnny Ball - Presenting Science and Maths - how exciting and how much fun they can be! The work was enormously successful and assessed by many present (IBM etc.) to be the best in the show.

“The Mind Zone Show” for BAe Sytems at the Millennium Dome 2000 devised and written by BAe Sytems and Johnny Ball. Again extremely successful: the feedback on their day at the Dome was universally higher from those who had begun their day at our presentation than those who hadn't.

“Spoof Presentation” as part of a corporate roleplay for Commercial Union in order to highlight what makes a presentation good! This has been repeated on a number of occasions as part of their staff development programme.

British Telecom Top Tier Clients Events – working as a presenter and actor (Shakepeare and other roles) as well as dining with the guests in several series of evening events at conferences hosted by BT to entertain their top-tier clients, held at luxury country hotels and compiled and co-presented by the actor Paul Darrow (famous for his role as Avon in Blake's Seven..!).

Tour Guiding – David regularly “presents” London, Edinburgh and effectively the whole of Britain with great love and enthusiasm to large groups of American adults and students over here for the London or Edinburgh Parades… A job he loves! See below.

Presentations “in role” have included:

His one-man shows as Sir Isaac Newton and Isambard Kingdom Brunel for Johnny Ball's “Living History of Science” company - performances nationwide since 1996 in schools, universities, for organisations such as Jaguar and even for the WI..!

The Ghost of Adam Opel for Opel Cars at the Geneva Motor Show

Various characters at the launches of Segaworld and the Swatch Bleep

"We at Andover High School in Bloomfield Hills, MI were most fortunate to have had David Hall as our Resource Person and liason during our week long trip to Edinburgh and London in 2004. He is very bright, well spoken, and quite dedicated to the well being of the groups under his care. We were especially impressed with his "people skills" in handling demanding situations and soothing frayed nerves. We would be delighted to be associated with David in any capacity in the future.”

Robert H. Ambrose Director of Bands, Andover High School

Mikki Stevens, President, The Red Hot Mamas