Dave McCrea

Born in Dublin, Ireland, Dave McCrea first caught the acting bug after he saw Kiefer Sutherland in The Lost Boys and started doing school plays. After high school, he attended the Gaiety School of Acting in Dublin where he worked with the finest teachers of the Dublin theatre world. Upon graduation, he co-founded Ether 4 Lunch Theatre Company with classmate Stuart Townsend and performed as The Kid in Sam Shepard's The Unseen Hand in Ether 4 Lunch's first production. He also worked in established Dublin theatres such as The Gaiety with esteemed theatre director Joe Dowling (of The Guthrie Theatre in Minneapolis), and the Project Arts Center. Securing a green card through the "lottery", he then moved to San Francisco where he worked closely with director David Gebroe, securing lead roles in If You Need Oil, a 38-minute black comedy that hit the festival circuit and The Homeboy, a comedy feature that went to PPV for 2 months as well as onto Netflix. He also got a supporting role in Jordan Mechner's (Prince of Persia) first foray into advanced gaming playing a Serbian terrorist in The Last Express. Working on Don Johnson's show Nash Bridges, as well as with Ben Gazzara and Karen Black on an indie feature shot in the Bay Area, he got his Screen Actors Guild card and moved to L.A. In Los Angeles, he was represented by Dragon Talent, the go-to agency for hip young actors. At Dragon, he appeared in 3 episodes of Beverly Hills 90210 and the Superbowl Coca-Cola commercial directed by Samuel Bayer among other credits. He can also be seen in Green Day's biggest hit "Good Riddance (Time of your Life)" video which won Best Alternative Video at the MTV VMA Awards along with some other typical Dragon Agency '90s hipsters. After working in Los Angeles on commercials, TV and independent film, he relocated to New York where he self-produced and directed a starring vehicle - a romantic comedy entitled "Crush Landing". After some years screenwriting, he has returned with full vigor to his first love, acting.