David Roby is a professional actor, playwright and director.

He is a member of Actors Equity Association and The Dramatists Guild.

His play Arts and Science is the winner of the 2006 Jean Kennedy Smith Playwriting Award and Finalist for the David Mark Cohen Award.  In 2008, Roby received the John N. Wall Fellowship in Playwriting at the Sewanee Writers Conference.    Arts and Science was published in 2008 in Blackbird Journal.

In the summer of 2009, Roby will head the Playwriting Program at the Sewanee Writers Youth Conference.