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David Epley is an American actor and comedian, best known for his interactive stage show where he plays the character Doktor Kaboom. He has performed on stage at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Singapore Science Festival, and the Seattle International Children's Festival as well as on television shows such as Fox News.

Early life and education
Epley grew up in North Carolina and attended North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics, a two-year high school program based in Durham, North Carolina. During his college years, Epley pursued his love of theater. He attended the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, majoring in engineering and theater while earning a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the school's acting and directing program.

Career
After college, Epley pursued a career in acting where he worked as a comic actor, performing outdoor festivals and doing improvisation. He formed a troupe with two other actors and performed at Renaissance festivals throughout the United States. He spent time writing, performing, and directing comedy performances as well as performing comedy skits for events. His show was performed in mud pits and was called Theatre in the Ground, a play on words for the term Theatre in the Round. The troupe would travel, playing six months out of the year, always remaining in character while at the festivals.

Epley describes himself as the kid who always got science. After performing on stage for approximately 20 years, he decided to mix his passion of science and theatre. In 2006 he created the character Doktor Kaboom, a German scientist that he uses to teach science to kids during performances. Epley uses audience members to help demonstrate experiments and to participate with the show. In 2010 he released Try This At Home, a DVD that shows kids science experiments that they can try at home.

Epley has been compared to Bill Nye the Science Guy, who also happens to be one of Epley's heroes, with Epley now living in Nye's childhood town of Seattle. He appears regularly on the regional talk show New Day Northwest which is filmed in the same studio where Nye started his career. Epley has appeared on Fox News as well as regional programs that include Good Morning Texas, LIVE at Daybreak in Milwaukee, and WPIX11 in New York City.