David A. Castillo
- Music Department
- Actor
David Castillo is an artist from New Orleans, LA. He works with pretty great humans on fun projects at wonderful companies. He constantly rediscovers performance and education to understand how the arts may serve as a fundamental and universal vehicle for communication and connectivity.
On the regular around greater Los Angeles, David nears a decade as a member of the Los Angeles Master Chorale, books as an actor and singer on set or in the studio, and serves on the voice faculties of Moorpark College and the Neighborhood Music School in Boyle Heights, where he also created and directs their Youth Coro.
David dives into the worlds of Hollywood on-camera and behind the mic as an actor, musician, and acting as a musician. He appeared on-camera in commercials, in a Camila Cabello music video playing his trumpet, in a pop-opera group on two rounds of America's Got Talent, and on other soon to be released pieces. His voiceover work can be experienced on commercials, on podcasts, and on several Netflix series'. He also serves as a session singer with credits such as Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, The Wonderful World of Mickey Mouse, Beauty and the Beast: A 30th Celebration, Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, and Encanto.
As a soloist on-stage, David performed Bernstein's Mass with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Gustavo Dudamel and with Lincoln Center's Mostly Mozart Festival and Louis Langrée; Eric Whitacre's The Gift of the Magi as Jim with DCINY at Carnegie Hall; Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande with The Cleveland Orchestra and Franz Welser-Möst and Yuval Sharon at Severance Hall; Guerrerio's ¡Figaro! (90210) Off-Broadway twice and the world premiere with LA Opera; and Schubert's Winterreise in Paris, New Orleans, Los Angeles, and in a choreographed version with Luminario Ballet. His eclectic style ranges from crooning boleros and Cole Porter, overtone singing in Stockhausen's Stimmung, a bunch of Incubus and Jamiroquai in the car, or feeling at home learning Filipino Kundiman from his Lolo/Grandpa. He premiered several major works, such as Louis Andriessen's Theatre of the World and Annie Gosfield/Yuval Sharon's War of the Worlds both with the LA Phil and Shawn Kirchner's Songs of Ascent as King David/Narrator and Eric Whitacre's The Gift of the Magi as Jim both with the LA Master Chorale.
As a producer, he focuses on the numerous senses and perspectives as entry points to the important, challenging conversations our communities need to surface. His productions of Seven Deadly Sins and INNERVISIONS:revisited collaborated with dozens of New Orleans' best chefs and powerhouse movers and vocalists. His first collaboration in fashion began as producer and performer of Project Runway winner/composer Kentaro Kameyama and writer William Nedved's The Passion of McQueen. He joined the duo again to perform their next project Medusa at the Getty Villa and Deaf West Theatre. On a note outside production, David recently continued with Deaf West Theatre to workshop several stages of Fidelio as Don PIzarro with the LA Phil. David and Kentaro created and produced the fashion/art exhibition "for anna."
David holds a Master of Music from the USC Thornton School of Music and Bachelor of Music from Loyola University New Orleans. He also studied at Anthony Meindl's Acting Workshop, Charlie Adler's Acting for Animation, the Sign Language Center, The MoCap Vaults, The HALP Network Entertainment Academy, The Voicecaster, Adventures in Voice Acting, Killian's Commercial Workshop, New Orleans Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, The Yard Muay Thai, Wild Card Boxing Gym, and the Aspen Music Festival and School.
To balance his wild and wonderful freelance lifestyle, he grounds out through slow process endeavors in the kitchen as an amateur pasta, nel drip, tamagoyaki, and tortilla maker. He did ceramics for one summer and misses it very much. He constantly is in class or in coachings somewhere around town or on the Zooms learning something new. You may find him wandering the streets with his beautiful and silly pups Pippa and Rafa (@PipNRaf).
On the regular around greater Los Angeles, David nears a decade as a member of the Los Angeles Master Chorale, books as an actor and singer on set or in the studio, and serves on the voice faculties of Moorpark College and the Neighborhood Music School in Boyle Heights, where he also created and directs their Youth Coro.
David dives into the worlds of Hollywood on-camera and behind the mic as an actor, musician, and acting as a musician. He appeared on-camera in commercials, in a Camila Cabello music video playing his trumpet, in a pop-opera group on two rounds of America's Got Talent, and on other soon to be released pieces. His voiceover work can be experienced on commercials, on podcasts, and on several Netflix series'. He also serves as a session singer with credits such as Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, The Wonderful World of Mickey Mouse, Beauty and the Beast: A 30th Celebration, Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, and Encanto.
As a soloist on-stage, David performed Bernstein's Mass with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Gustavo Dudamel and with Lincoln Center's Mostly Mozart Festival and Louis Langrée; Eric Whitacre's The Gift of the Magi as Jim with DCINY at Carnegie Hall; Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande with The Cleveland Orchestra and Franz Welser-Möst and Yuval Sharon at Severance Hall; Guerrerio's ¡Figaro! (90210) Off-Broadway twice and the world premiere with LA Opera; and Schubert's Winterreise in Paris, New Orleans, Los Angeles, and in a choreographed version with Luminario Ballet. His eclectic style ranges from crooning boleros and Cole Porter, overtone singing in Stockhausen's Stimmung, a bunch of Incubus and Jamiroquai in the car, or feeling at home learning Filipino Kundiman from his Lolo/Grandpa. He premiered several major works, such as Louis Andriessen's Theatre of the World and Annie Gosfield/Yuval Sharon's War of the Worlds both with the LA Phil and Shawn Kirchner's Songs of Ascent as King David/Narrator and Eric Whitacre's The Gift of the Magi as Jim both with the LA Master Chorale.
As a producer, he focuses on the numerous senses and perspectives as entry points to the important, challenging conversations our communities need to surface. His productions of Seven Deadly Sins and INNERVISIONS:revisited collaborated with dozens of New Orleans' best chefs and powerhouse movers and vocalists. His first collaboration in fashion began as producer and performer of Project Runway winner/composer Kentaro Kameyama and writer William Nedved's The Passion of McQueen. He joined the duo again to perform their next project Medusa at the Getty Villa and Deaf West Theatre. On a note outside production, David recently continued with Deaf West Theatre to workshop several stages of Fidelio as Don PIzarro with the LA Phil. David and Kentaro created and produced the fashion/art exhibition "for anna."
David holds a Master of Music from the USC Thornton School of Music and Bachelor of Music from Loyola University New Orleans. He also studied at Anthony Meindl's Acting Workshop, Charlie Adler's Acting for Animation, the Sign Language Center, The MoCap Vaults, The HALP Network Entertainment Academy, The Voicecaster, Adventures in Voice Acting, Killian's Commercial Workshop, New Orleans Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, The Yard Muay Thai, Wild Card Boxing Gym, and the Aspen Music Festival and School.
To balance his wild and wonderful freelance lifestyle, he grounds out through slow process endeavors in the kitchen as an amateur pasta, nel drip, tamagoyaki, and tortilla maker. He did ceramics for one summer and misses it very much. He constantly is in class or in coachings somewhere around town or on the Zooms learning something new. You may find him wandering the streets with his beautiful and silly pups Pippa and Rafa (@PipNRaf).