Jonathon Darque is the stage name of David MacDonald Graham.
David was born in Perth, Scotland in 1978. His early years were spent traveling, with his family around the country until they eventually settled in Stirling.
In was in Stirling that David had his first stage appearance, wrapped in bubble wrap in an original piece by the Stirling youth theatre, entitled “Rubbish Aliens”
After spending his formative years dividing his time between, school, sports and theatre productions David attended boarding school in Fort Augustus, and was a regular in the Schools lavish productions, his parts included one of the Witches from Macbeth, Laertes in Hamlet and Theseus from a Midsummer's Night Dream.
David returned to Stirling and joined the Scottish Youth Theatre and spent the next 4 years, covering productions from Shakespeare to Carol Churchill.
David left school at 15, and had decided to look at other areas of performance. He took an H.N.D in Communication Media at Falkirk college of Higher and Further education; there he made his own short films, mostly comedy and parody.  The main skill however came from his radio classes. David Created several spoofs of the current popular culture, including an X-Files spoof and a Star Trek parody.
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Although not particularly musically talented, David had developed an ear for what fitted together and ended up taking classes in sampling and electronic composition, quickly mastering synthesizers and music based computer programs, he voluntary remixed tracks from the college bands and eventually transferred his skills to scoring his short films and radio plays in his own unique fashion and often cites John carpenter as an influence. At the age of 19 he accepted a place at Trinity College, Carmarthen South Wales
          on their B.A Hons in Theatre studies.
“Devils Dreams” was the first piece for theatre that David wrote and was showcased to lecturers, journalists and students as part of the “Festival of Short Plays” the college had arranged.
While it was not the overall winner, it was the only piece of original theatre and by far the most controversial.
Taking the notion that the Devil was tired and open to temptation, David wove a tale where a female God tempted the Devil with freedom, if he found a worthy successor. While only a three hander, the production managed to outrage the clergy, students and vegetarians. David played the Devil himself and in one of the most impromptu and visceral displays an actor can do, he bit into a fresh heart.
He was only meant to lick it, and it was only a lambs heart, bought from Tescos that day, still it didn’t help when he spat bits into the audience.
In 1999, David finished the third year of his degree at York University and found himself at their Scarborough Campus and living only a stone’s throw from Alan Ackbourn’s “Stephen Joseph Theatre”
  At Scarborough, David wrote the 2nd and third parts of his “Devil’s Dreams” trilogy, inspired in part by the “Theban plays” of Sophocles and his interest in surrealism.
Being no stranger to controversy, David was not surprised to find himself cast in a production, inspired by the Moors Murders.
Scarborough offered many opportunities, one of which was to devise a show based on the work of Samuel Beckett. David combined film and Catastrophe to create an interactive installation, with an actor portraying Beckett while David recited Mouth in the style of an actor learning his lines.
David graduated with a 2.2 Hons degree in 2000; he then took a year out to travel. He traveled to New Zealand and spent a year accepting short term contracts up and down the country. While in Dunedin, he applied for a production of Doctor Faustus as an actor and ended up teaching renaissance theatre for three months. Traveling to Auckland, David studied with Sally Spencer-Harris and landed a regular non speaking role on the soap opera Shortland Street, before returning to Scotland in 2003.
  David went back to his hometown of Stirling to consider his next step; he created a few characters for the local comedy club and appeared in adverts for Specsavers and Tenants lager.  David is a committed and dedicated performer with a great knowledge and passion of theatrical history and believes that you can never learn enough in your chosen subject. 
A man of eclectic tastes and influences he is versatile in writing, acting and directing.
David recently gave an aggressive performance as Wackford Squeers in John Kirtley’s production of Nicolas Nicolby and is now looking forward establishing himself as an Actor who writes or a writer who acts, depending on which medium presents it first.
His current project is part of the live across Newcastle Festival and he will be taking part in: Woman on Stage as three separate characters musing on the changing face of women in theatre and life.