David is an international speaker and author of over 60 publications and 4 books including the much admired Caliban's Redemption (2004), The Grammar of Witchcraft (2009), Mount Athos Inside Me (2019), the anarchic Women in Mayhem (2024), and Cultivating Presence (2025).
Previously, he was creative director at a multi-media theatre company, Gruntlers Cabaret (which later evolved into Theo-Humanist Arts).
Relatedly, David was first chairperson of Eurasian Creative Guild, a non-profit organisation building networks between Eurasian artists, writers, poets, musicians, and filmmakers.
Latterly, David co-founded and co-hosted the pioneering podcast THA Talks, a project that was loosely linked with his work as co-founder and curator of two highly controversial and groundbreaking debating societies, Extremists Club and Free Speech Club.
David was made a Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society (FRAS) in 2020, and elected a Fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute (FRAI) in 2024.
David is a Member of the British Art Network (BAN), an Honorary Ambassador for International Multicultural Network, and was awarded a gold medal in Almaty, Kazakhstan, for "services to developing theatre" from their State Arts Council.
Most notably, David has been added to the LGBTQ Religious Archives Network as a religious leader and prominent activist in the United Kingdom.
David's works in global theatre and literature has involved a passionate interaction with Azerbaijan and a life-long obsession for the cultures of Central Asia. Each facilitating a number of sponsorships from the Embassy of The Republic of Azerbaijan to the United Kingdom, and more immediately the Hermes Trust.
He has recently completed a doctorate by portfolio in English at the University of South Wales (USW).
His personal motto is “honi soit qui mal y pense”.
"David is a man of extraordinary erudition and artistic sensitivity."
– Fr Robert McTeigue, SJ, PhD
"A Haunting conceit!"
– Iain Sinclair, FRLS
"He is one of the stalwarts of the LGBTQ+ movement."
– Ejel Khan, Founder of Muslim LGBT Network