David Schachter(I)

David Schachter was born on September 15, 1961 in Levittown, New York. Schachter graduated from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts with a BFA in drama in 1982. David waited on a lot of tables, did some theater in New York, and worked extensively as an extra on television before landing the lead role of naive typesetter David Bennett in the groundbreaking indie drama Buddies (1985), which was the first theatrical film to address the devastating impact of the AIDS pandemic on the gay community in the 1980's. In the wake of starring in Buddies (1985) Schachter began volunteering at the non-profit charity organization the Gay Men's Health Crisis, where he was a community organizer in charge of the AIDS Walk and other major events. Moreover, David went on to earn his Master's Degree in public administration at the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service in 1994 and subsequently became the Associate Dean of Admissions and Student Affairs at NYU Wagner.