Biography

Dave Rosenberg was born on July 9th, 1975 in Brooklyn, New York. Growing up, Dave was a lover of movies. From his childhood obsession with movies about orphans ("Annie", "Oliver" and "Pete's Dragon") to the movies that entertained him as a teenager ("Rocky", "The Karate Kid") to the movies that inspired him to become an actor and filmmaker ("Good Will Hunting", "Jerry Maguire"), movies have always been his church. The experience of sitting in a theater with a group of strangers and having a cathartic experience, then walking out and engaging in conversations about what was just witnessed always felt like a spiritual experience to him.

After graduating Hofstra University in New York, Dave made a decision to become an actor, and his future path was set. While studying acting for 8 years with renowned theater teachers in New York City, acting in upwards of 20 plays and building his own theater company with friends, Dave also began veering into the world of film. He acted in a number of independent films ("The Mudball War", "Overnight Sensation") and appeared in several Hollywood films ("A Beautiful Mind", "Maid in Manhattan"), and has worked on over 50 film sets in various capacities.

In 2002, after running into his childhood Nemesis in Union Square Park in NYC, Dave began writing, along with his two close friends Andrea Modica and Dinh Doan, "The Reunion", the story of a failed actor confronting his childhood Nemesis at their high school reunion. In 2008, after an amazing creative collaboration, Dave, Andrea and Dinh presented a reading of the screenplay in front of a large audience in downtown Manhattan. The reading garnered much attention and positive feedback, but the three novice filmmakers were unable to raise the money at that time.

In 2012, Dave bought a Honda Fit and drove cross-country to Los Angeles to try to revive his acting career, and ended up teaching full time English and History for five years at a middle school near Koreatown. He found in teaching renewed excitement he was hoping to find in acting. Miraculously, in 2018, his dream of making "The Reunion" came back...in a dream. After a female student (for the 2nd year in a row) said in class, "Mister, why aren't you on some red carpet?", Dave woke up in the middle of the night with a vision of making the film. He went back to New York, and, along with Andrea and Dinh, began the many steps that it would take to get "The Reunion" made. We are currently a month away from completing the film and entering it into festivals.
- IMDb mini biography by: Dave Rosenberg

As a young actor starting out, Dave met Nicholas Cage in NYC and asked Cage if he could do his impression of him. Cage gracefully said yes. Dave did his impression from "Honeymoon in Vegas" in front of Cage, Patricia Arquette and a crowd of New Yorkers. Cage replied, "You got the rhythm down and everything!!".

Dave met his idol, Matt Damon, a few times on set. One time, Dave approached Damon and said, "I just want to let you know that 'Good Will Hunting' changed my life. To which, Damon didn't skip a beat and replied, "Changed mine too".