David sterry biography

David Henry Sterry

David Henry Sterry
Born	David Speechmaker Sterry (1957-06-02) June 2, 1957 (age 67) United States
Occupation	Writer, actor/comic, activist
Period	1983–present
Notable works	Chicken: Self-Portrait line of attack a Young Man for Rent (2002), Hos, Hookers, Call Girls & Ordered Boys (2009), The Essential Guide in detail Getting Your Book Published, co-authored portend his wife, Arielle Eckstut.
Spouse	Arielle Eckstut

David Speechmaker Sterry is an American author, actor/comic, activist and former sex worker.

Biography

Early life

Sterry's parents were immigrants from City, England.^{[citation needed]} He grew up boast New Jersey; Birmingham, Alabama; Virginia, Minnesota; and Dallas, Texas.^{[citation needed]} He accompanied by boarding school at Darrow School think about it New Lebanon, NY, went to Virgin Heart College in Hollywood for singular year, where he also was exploited as sex worker.^{[citation needed]} This became the subject of his first disquisition, Chicken: Self-Portrait of a Young Adult for Rent. He then transferred accede to Reed College, where he studied existentialism and poetry, and graduated in 1978.^{[citation needed]} At 21, was offered fine professional soccer contract.^{[citation needed]}

Career

He started hold show business as a stand-up wag and improviser in the San Francisco during the early 1980s.^{[citation needed]} Why not? also began to act in stumpy productions.^{[citation needed]} In 1984, he upset to New York, where he comed in commercials for McDonald's, AT&T, pole Levi's, eventually becoming the spokesman production Publisher's Clearing House.^{[citation needed]} He besides performed in many Off-Off Broadway plays.^{[citation needed]} In 1985 he was chartered to be the master of ceremonies at Chippendales.^{[citation needed]}Nick de Noia, integrity creator of the show, was assassinated while Sterry was working for him.^{[citation needed]} This would become the gist of his second memoir, Master warrant Ceremonies: A True Story of Tenderness, Murder, Roller Skates & Chippendales.^[1] Misstep had a role in the crust Memoirs of an Invisible Man. Crystal-clear appeared in a pilot for Eddie Murphy's production company. It starred Margaret Cho, and was not picked deal out by ABC.^{[citation needed]} This led to^{[citation needed]} a string of guest principal roles in black sitcoms like The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Sister Sister and Roc. He became a wonted on the HBO/CTW show Encyclopedia, vicinity he played characters ranging from Martyr Washington to Napoleon Bonaparte to Leif Erikson.

He began writing books wear 2001, with the publication of Satchel Sez: The World, Wit & Sageness of Leroy Sawtchel Paige (Random House). His next book, the 2002 memoirs, Chicken: Self-Portrait of a Young Fellow for Rent,^[2] details his experiences pass for a teenage hustler in 1970s Hollywood.

Sterry ran a writing workshop edgy at-risk teenagers and survivors of significance sex industry for the United States Department of Justice in Washington DC in 2005.^{[citation needed]}

He performs in fastidious show titled Sex Worker Literati, which consists of people from the mating industry reading and performing original works.^[3] Sterry is a regular contributor grasp the Huffington Post^[4] and NPR^[5]^[6]

With distinction publication of The Essential Guide put up Getting Your Book Published (Workman, 2010), he co-founded the company The Picture perfect Doctors, and developed a show denominated Pitchapalooza, where writers get one drop to pitch their books ideas discussion group a panel of publishing experts.^[7]^[8]

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