David Manis is an American actor and director, best known for the films Dahmer, Dream Date, and Gacy.

Theatre credits include his Broadway debut as Abe Lincoln/Others in Abe Lincoln In Illinois, Arthur Narracott/Others in War Horse, Mercure/Others in A Free Man of Color, Semyon/Policeman/Gottfried Kinkel/Others in The Coast Of Utopia—Part 1: Voyage/Part 2: Shipwrecked/Part 3: Salvage, David/Others in The Rivals, Pistol/Others in Henry IV, and Captain Brice, RN in Arcadia (Vivian Beaumont Theatre), Reverend Peters in The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time and King Berenger/Others in Exit The King (Ethel Barrymore Theatre), and Carl Bolton/Others in Morning’s At Seven (Lyceum Theatre); and Off-Broadway, as Antonio/Verges in Much Ado About Nothing, Elbow/Escalus in Measure for Measure, and Lavatch/Others in All’s Well That Ends Well (Delacorte Theatre), Lucius/Senator in Timon of Athens (Anspacher Theater), and Cleante/Others in Tartuffe and Pericles/Others in Pericles, Prince of Tyre (American Place Theatre).