DIRECTOR • PRODUCER • WRITER • PERFORMER/MODEL • ORGANIZER

My name is David H. Parker (they/them), or dHp, and I have over 10 years in the theatre and film industry under my belt. With a professional paper trail seen in Albuquerque, Nashville, Baltimore, Los Angeles, and New York City, my practice is multi-local, bridging the gap between Birmingham and the rest of the country outside of your standard institutional pipelines.

Intersectionality is also at the core of my work. My leadership and directing practices are rooted in consent and wellness, which bloom from Leah Lakshmi's radical care; Dr. Carolina San Juan’s critical kindness; and Dr. Tricia Hersey’s The Nap Ministry, a text that identifies "rest as a revolutionary act."

I've directed or collaborated with Emmy, Grammy, and Tony Award-winning actors and am a Co-Founder of My Black Job Productions, a boutique "for-us, by-us" production initiative that empowers Black artists by creating space for our work in music, theatre, and dance, with events like our recent Sweet Tea: An Artist Salon at The Tank NYC. 

On Broadway, I was an inaugural Cody Renard Richard Scholar (2020), shadowed the Associate Director Keenan Tyler Oliphant on Hadestown (2025), Associate Directed on the Los Angeles Transfer of Fat Ham (2024), and Associate Directed at 2nd Stage UPTOWN with Zhailon Levingston on Patience (2022). 

I have frequent affiliation and partnerships with organizations such as GLAAD, Geffen Playhouse, Donja R. Love's Write It Out!, AfroMundo, The Tank NYC, Bechdel Project, Transformations, & the Southeastern Theatre Conference with whom I recently published an interview with André De Shields (Southern Magazine).

I've earned a Master of Fine Arts from the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), a BA from the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), and I am a member of the Stage Directors & Choreography Society (SDC).