David Beam
(he/him)
Washington Improv TheaterDavid is a lawyer specializing in financial services regulation, with a focus on payment systems, credit, and financial technology.
David decided to take an improv class after watching his son’s middle school production of Peter Pan. Overcome with nostalgia for his long-ago performing arts days in school, he ignored his kids’ warning of an impending mid-life crisis and enrolled in a Level 1 class at WIT.
Several years later, David has completed over a dozen classes with WIT, and has added mastery of improv to his things-to-do-before-he-dies list. His only regret is that he hadn’t done it years earlier. He’s ecstatic to be on the board of this fantastic organization and do his part to help its mission of bringing the wonderful art of improv to as many people in the DC community as possible.
David lives in Falls Church with his wife and two teenage sons. Besides improv, his hobbies include taking kids to activities, having fun with power tools (sure that one day he’ll be able to build something that his wife allows to be displayed in the house), and reminiscing about when he used to have time to play video games. David grew up in Maine, and still considers himself to be from there—but after living two-plus decades in DC, his friends and family “back home” now consider him to be “from away.”