David Ausem was born on November 14, 1984 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The second of three boys. His father was a police officer, and his mother a physical therapist. David was raised in Las Vegas, Nevada and Towanda, Pennsylvania. He attended Towanda high school, and went on to attend East Stroudsburg University where he received bachelors degrees in acting and directing, as well a technical theatre. While at East Stroudsburg University he studied myth and ritual in theatre at Oxford University(St Edmunds College) in England. Upon Graduation he has gone on to study under the great Burt Reynolds. David continues his education at the Burt Reynolds institute for film and theatre while working in the film and television industry as an actor, and behind the camera as an assistant director.