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David Roche(United States)Website: www.davidroche.com
Equal parts storyteller and stand-up comic, David Roche garners rave reviews
where ever he performs. The Church of 80% Sincerity is a hilarious and
groundbreaking evening of theatre based on David Roche's life experiences.
This award winning one-man show which weaves childhood memories, scars,
dreams, desires and everyday human experiences into a brilliantly funny,
moving and absolutely mesmerizing evening of theatre, continually receives
standing ovations.
David has been featured in four films, including Shameless, a 2006
feature-length documentary by Bonnie Sherr Klein from the National Film
Board of Canada. The Perfect Flaw, a 2005 documentary about David by Mike
Grundmann, won first place awards at the Canadian International Annual Film
& Video Festival and the Da Vinci Film & Video Festival. Two other
award-winning films featuring David, Face First (Mike Grundmann, 1999) and
Able to Laugh (Michael J. Dougan, 1993) have been seen worldwide. David's
warm humour has been featured in PBS specials which have been seen throughout
the world.
David has inspired standing ovations from the Clinton White House to the Sydney
Olympics Arts Festival, from most of the 50 states in the US to Canada, England,
New Zealand and Moscow.
As part of Abilities Arts Festival 2005, David Roche was a featured performer
at the festival's evening gala held at the Glenn Gould Studio. During the 2005
festival, David also hosted a “story-telling” workshop, and was an active panel
participant.
The Church of 80% Sincerity
by David Roche
ISBN 978-0-399-53390-7 Roche writes a powerful little book that's part memoir, part inspirational handbook. "You can be 80 percent sincere 100 percent of the time, or 100 percent sincere 80 percent of the time. It's in that 20 percent area where you get some slack and you can be yourself." For Roche (now in his 60s), being himself has meant coming to terms with a face so severely disfigured by a benign congenital tumor that he’s been spat at and called a monster. He was rejected from a seminary because, he was told, his appearance meant "people would not respect you as a priest." The loss of the fathers of the Holy Cross is the general public's gain. A performer and motivational speaker, Roche is frank and witty and incapable of resorting to sentimental pap. He's used to people staring at him, and he admits he's been tempted to respond to pestering, obnoxious boys by saying, "Well, my face is like this because when I was a little boy like you, I touched my wee-wee." He's well aware that people find him inspiring, but he doesn't try to hide his flaws, and that makes him more inspiring. Read reviews of David's book and order your copy by clicking here ... |
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