David Krudwig is a thirteenth-year teacher at Parkview High School. David was the first to separate "Drama" classes into Technical Theatre and Acting courses; he was also the first to offer Dual Enrollment credit for theatre coursework in the Springfield Public School District. In 2014 Mr. Krudwig earned his Master's Degree in Directing from the prestigious Chicago College of the Performing Arts at Roosevelt University, Chicago Illinois. He is a 2000 graduate of Missouri State University's Theatre and Dance Department and a proud four-year veteran of Missouri State University's summer professional Tent Theatre, where he worked as actor, master carpenter and assistant technical director. Under Mr. Krudwig's direction the Parkview Theatre Department is the first Springfield school to have a performance selected to perform at the prestigious International Thespian Festival. Some of Mr. Krudwig's students have gone on to study at such universities as University of California, Irvine, Webster University, Roosevelt University in Chicago, North Carolina School for the Arts in Winston-Salem, Evansville University, IN, and NYU. Mr. Krudwig moonlights as an actor in local TV, radio, and independent films. Mr. Krudwig and his wife Brandy have three daughters, Liberty, Lillian & Genevieve.