Author's Bio
D.L.
White is a native of
Albuquerque, New Mexico. He
moved to
Los Angeles in the fall of 1991 to study music and after completion of
his
musical studies, he produced and released three albums under the
Monochrome
Records moniker. Late
in 1992, Mr.
White got his first taste of the film and television industry at Sunset
Digital
Studios in Burbank, CA. Showing
a
strong aptitude for the rigors of life at the fast-paced facility, D.L.
White
rose quickly through the ranks, earning the Keith Saxton Memorial
Scholarship
Award for Technical Excellence in 1995.
During
his long tenure at
Sunset Digital Studios, he was fortunate enough to work on dozens of
network
shows, including Frasier and Seinfeld and
literally hundreds of feature
films from studios such as Paramount Pictures, MGM,
Touchstone, Buena Vista,
Sony and Warner Bros. In
1996, he
became interested in directing and began experimenting with the new
generation
of digital image acquisition devices that were just coming onto the
market at
the time. Those
early forays into
production led him to refine himself and his approach to the craft of
directing. Mr.
White eventually
abandoned digital for film and has never looked back.
Hearkening
to his musical
roots, he focused his attention primarily on music videos. He
has since shot and
directed over a dozen
music videos and commercials for clients from around the
world. Desiring to further
explore more traditional
filmmaking avenues, he was mentored by Jim Kelly Durgin, a long time
production
manager and script supervisor, whose vast experience in filmmaking
dates back
to the ‘Golden Age’ of Hollywood.
Adding to his knowledge gleaned from the years
working at Sunset, Mr.
Durgin impressed upon D.L. White a wealth of knowledge that is rapidly
becoming
lost in the modern age of filmmaking.
As
he was now beginning to
work with actors instead of musicians more and more often, Mr. White
began to
study acting in earnest at the Sanford Meisner Center in North
Hollywood. Learning
to not only better understand the
emotional aspects of acting, Mr. White felt it very important to be
able to
communicate effectively with the actors he was working with.
It was during the two
years he spent at the
Meisner Center that he realized he was in a wonderful position to lend
a hand to aspiring actors.
Drawing from his years of experience in film and
television and his
newfound understanding of acting, he decided to pen what would become
his
latest book Acting in
the Real World: The Film
Professional’s Guidebook to the
Job of Acting.
D.L. White continues to
direct music videos and commercials, most recently completing projects
for Los
Angeles based artist Fontaine and English indie
sensation Steady States