Board Member Spotlight: David Moberg
David Moberg has been teaching at Indian River State College for 38 years and says he’s enjoyed every minute of it, living the dream. “My great dream was to have my own theater on the ocean and I was extremely fortunate to have gotten that so early and have had it for so long.”
In fulfilling it, Moberg, IRSC’s Fine Arts Chair and Director of Theatre, has directed more than 250 productions for IRSC, on the main stage, in the black box theatre and on the road in touring shows. He’s earned awards and honors in his 38 years.
In 2009, Moberg was awarded the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival Region IV National Festival Faculty Fellowship in Playwriting. This fellowship is awarded annually to a single faculty member in the southeastern United States and is intended to recognize outstanding achievement as a teaching artist.
He said, “I truly love the art and continue to love it after all these years and the hundreds of pieces that I’ve been fortunate enough to direct at the college.”
If he has any spare time, he heads for the great outdoors for saltwater and spear fishing, diving, hunting, hiking and horseback riding —anything outside in the Florida sun and fresh air.
That said, one career and a long list of outdoor pastimes aren’t quite enough for Moberg. He found himself writing “a lot of interactive, fully scripted dinner theater plays to perform for our area social and service organizations as a way to bring new audiences to our main stage and black box theaters here at the college.” Enter notechtheatre.com, an outlet for marketing his original work.
Almost 75 productions of his plays have been seen “around our country, in Canada, England, the Philippines, Japan, Germany, Belize, and quite a few … more.”
Moberg’s leadership has inspired his students to pursue their own dreams. He said quite a few have headed to Los Angeles to try the big stage and several have wound up in regional theaters in arts management. He said, “Right now three of my former students are actually teaching theater in this area in the high schools, which is kind of cool.”
Indian River State College’s Fort Pierce campus offers seating for 639 in the McAlpin Fine Arts Theatre and 100 in the Wynne Black Box Theatre.
Source: Willi Miller’s Arts Blast – Subscribe
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