Dave Payton

Dave Payton

History

Dave Payton has been acting since his elementary-school days in Brooklyn, New York. After graduating from college with a BA in English, he toured with the professional Christian acting company Covenant Players, where he performed all over the country in churches, schools, prisons, and nursing homes. After his tour, he returned to Brooklyn where he was Pee Wee the Seagull, one of the mascots for the New York Mets single-A team, the Brooklyn Cyclones. After meeting his wife on an internet dating site, Dave moved to Wisconsin, where he has founded Least of These Players. LOTP has produced "The Man in The Empty Chair" on stage and film as well as "The Gift." TMIETC marks the debut of LOTP as they hope to cultivate a bigger audience. Dave has written several plays, mostly faith-based. He has also played many stage roles including: Harold Hill in "The Music Man", Mr. Tumnus in "The Chronicles of Narnia"; Mike Teevee in "Willy Wonka"; Lumiere in "Beauty and the Beast"; and Juror 2 in "12 Angry Men".

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Dave Payton

Movies

Bigfoot Kills: A True Crime Documentary
Milton Ripp
In the summer of 2013, three internet bloggers went missing in the remote forests of Wisconsin. This video was their final recording.
Cohabitation
Ron
While former paramedic Emily tries to live a low-key life to cope with her PTSD, her new roommate has other plans, and a long-held vendetta against medical personnel.
Timbertown
Bill Childers
A logger, a DNR officer, and a widow's lives intertwine as their small backwoods town deals with the aftermath of a local preacher's mysterious death.
Thy Neighbor
Neighbor
A hotshot young author becomes the pastor of a small town church with big dreams of changing the world, but things change when he grows suspicious that his neighbor may be a threat to his family's safety.
The Perfect Day
Chuck
Retired Navy S.E.A.L. Christopher 'Soup' Campbell is a tactical specialist for a private security firm at a counter terrorism training facility hidden in the Blue Ridge Mountains. The military and intelligence community call him 'Soup', not only because of the familiarity of his last name, but his ability to combine and assess a variety of threats into a strategic tactical response.
The Man in the Empty Chair
Cab
An old man is dying. He wants to give his inheritance away, but all his family members are preventing him from deciding who should inherit his kingdom.
The Man in the Empty Chair
Producer
An old man is dying. He wants to give his inheritance away, but all his family members are preventing him from deciding who should inherit his kingdom.
The Man in the Empty Chair
Writer
An old man is dying. He wants to give his inheritance away, but all his family members are preventing him from deciding who should inherit his kingdom.
The Good Shepherd
College Student (uncredited)
Edward Wilson, the only witness to his father's suicide and member of the Skull and Bones Society while a student at Yale, is a morally upright young man who values honor and discretion, qualities that help him to be recruited for a career in the newly founded OSS. His dedication to his work does not come without a price though, leading him to sacrifice his ideals and eventually his family.
Random Hearts
Passenger (uncredited)
After losing their spouses in a plane crash, an internal affairs cop and a congresswoman find each other's keys in each other's loved ones' possessions and discover that the two were having an affair.
Through Eyes of Grace
Pastor Seth Adams
A small-town community is rocked to the core when the daughter of the local Pastor disappears.
Through Eyes of Grace
Screenplay
A small-town community is rocked to the core when the daughter of the local Pastor disappears.
Through Eyes of Grace
Producer
A small-town community is rocked to the core when the daughter of the local Pastor disappears.