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David Lawrence is an American radio host, webpage designer, voice actor and author. He is the anchor and executive producer of the award-winning network music show, The Net Music Countdown. He is an Emmy Award winner and Clio Award winner. In addition to the Net Music Countdown, he is also host of the daily The David Lawrence Show and weekend Online Tonight, both nationally syndicated radio talk shows that revolve around pop culture and the high-tech lifestyle. The award-winning shows combine entertainment, information, interviews and news with speed and humor.

Lawrence has been on the radio for nearly 30 years as a top-rated air personality on stations like WMAL, WMZQ and WRQX/Washington DC, WGAR, WGCL, WDMT/Cleveland, KC101/New Haven, WTAE/Pittsburgh and WNCI and WLVQ/Columbus. He is a founding member and former executive producer of the radio comedy ensemble, The American Comedy Network. He wrote the best-selling Learn HTML on The Macintosh, the first web design book created exclusively for Macintosh users.

Today, David Lawrence can be heard online at his website, and on terrestrial radio stations such as KBNP from Portland, Oregon.

David has been involved in podcasting since the inception. He holds the title of 'first podcaster' since he has been sending audio to subscribers via the internet since 1994 when he started the 'Personal Netcast' which is now one of the most listened to podcasts as The Personal Netcast Podcast. With his long history in radio and knowledge of technology he became a leader in the field of podcasting helping individuals and companies design their own podcast or podcasting recording system, and he even does custom podcasts for several organizations. David counts over 350 Fortune 500 and private companies as podcasting clients, either as a podcast talent, producer, designer or consultant. Each night, he voices over 25 daily podcast episodes for clients, and frequently speaks at events, including the NAB and the Portable Media Expo, on honing the skills necessary to be an efficient, professional and profitable podcast talent. As a way to empower podcasters to generate revenue through podcasting, David developed ShowTaxi, a simple subscription management for premium podcasters. He is also the host of a highly successful premium podcast called "Patrick Tucker's Secrets of Screen Acting: The Podcast."

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Saints Row, an action-adventure video game, includes the voice work and writing talents of David Lawrence and Mike Schmidt. David did over 60 voices in the game including that of fashionista Stefan and newscaster Jack Armstrong. He also produced the audio for all of the radio stations, and co-wrote and polished the cut scenes between missions.^{[citation needed]}

Over 11,000 audio assets were delivered to Volition and THQ for the game, and he hired and produced the audio for over 100 other voice talent for the DJ work, the commercials and the side voices for the radio station network in the game.

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Recently David has been helping individuals create their own demos with an affordable service called Demo To Go. You can make an appointment, come into his studio, record with him for about an hour, and he'll produce the finished product and you can leave with it, ready to share with the world.

Additionally, as the voice of America Online's customer service lines, and the voice of over 1500 other interactive voice response telephone systems, he is one of the most often-heard voices in the world. His past theatre and voice work includes the role as the station manager in Goodnight Burbank, Charles Bukowski in the musical Bukowsical!, El Gallo in The Fantasticks, as well as parts in The Children's Hour, The Good Doctor, Born Yesterday, The Fall of the House of Usher and the role of Barry Champlain in Talk Radio. He has performed on stage at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and is a lifelong member of Mensa. His dozens of award-winning web sites include work featured in the permanent collection at the Smithsonian, the home page for America Online CEO Steve Case, Quincy Jones' Qradio.net site (nominated for a WIRED Reader Rant award), and the AMD Professional Gamer's League site. With Bob Pondillo, David has brought to life 'Wallace', in a short-film aptly named 'My Name Is Wallace' This film has been winning awards across the country and is in over 50 festivals including Cannes Film Festival.

Lawrence makes regular appearances as an industry commentator on TechTV, CNN, FOX, CBS, MSNBC, and Tribune broadcasting outlets as well as the CBC and the BBC, where he is a featured expert on Radio 5 Live's "Up All Night."

• The David Lawrence Show