David Leonard Goss was born in Phoenix, Arizona and grew up in Michigan with his mother, father and his older brother Joe.

And he knew how to get into trouble.

Today, Dave lives on the north side of Chicago in a vintage apartment with his wife Lori, their daughter Maddie and their three cats, Nala, Priddy and Buster.

And he’s perfected the art of troublemaking.

Dave is an actor, musician and performance artist who has worn virtually every hat in the theater, from that of house manager to that of director. He has worked with a number of theater companies in Chicago, played bit parts in several films and appeared in a handful of commercials – some you have seen and some you have not. His ukulele playing, jive-talking alter ego, Snorky Bloomfeld, has been booed off of one or two stages in Chicago and has graced or disgraced the pages of theater programs all over the country.

Dave holds a master’s degree in theater from Michigan State University, where he worked as house manager of the theater department. He, like Lori, is a company member of WNEP Theater and has appeared in several of their productions, including the critically acclaimed Losers Bracket and Fairy Tales Are Not For Children, the production in which he and Lori met. It was in that production that Dave saw Lori in her Little Red Riding Hood costume and knew that he would never be able to get her out of his mind. The rest is history.

Dave is an avid backpacker, and he plays a lot of instruments. In fact, if you ever visit his and Lori’s apartment, you’ll notice one in nearly every corner. His first instrument is the guitar, but he also plays a mean ukulele, an equally mean harmonica, a fairly nice dulcimer, and a neither mean nor nice, almost antisocial banjo (he is only just learning the banjo). He never met an instrument he didn’t like, though some most definitely have not liked him.

By day, Dave works in product management at Recycled Paper Greetings on Chicago’s north side. He likes it very much.