Dave Bresnahan

David Michael Bresnahan is an award-winning journalist, broadcaster, radio talk show host, motivational speaker, actor and filmmaker. He was a high school and college gymnast, and in 1986 coached the USA Men’s Gymnastics team for two international competitions.

He served one term in the Utah House of Representatives (1994-96) as a Republican, and was nominated as the legislator of the year in 1995.

He grew up in Westborough, Massachusetts attending all 12 years of public school there. He later went back to Westborough High School as the boy’s gymnastics coach. He opened a private gymnastics school, Turnfest Gymnastics, which began in Grafton, Massachusetts in 1975 and then moved to Westborough in 1978. It closed when he moved to Utah to coach there in 1983.

After coaching the USA Men’s Gymnastics Team for competitions and Moscow, Russia and then Riga, Latvia he continued in the sport as an international judging official (F.I.G.). He married Rona Oldham in 1988 and after they had their first child he ended his gymnastics career in 1990 to avoid travel away from his young family.

He has a bachelor’s degree in Communications with a minor in Computer Science and another minor in American History from Westminster College of Salt Lake City, where he transferred after first attending Lowell Technological Institute (now University of Lowell) in Massachusetts.

Dave Bresnahan is a skilled character actor who has taken the skills he learned as a broadcaster and put them to good use as an actor and filmmaker. His goals are to make films that provide family friendly entertainment that will enlighten, uplift, and motivate audiences.

He is the son of Michael Cornelius Bresnahan and Marilyn Jean Lindberg. His father was a faithful Irish Catholic and his mother was a faithful Swedish Protestant. He says that caused him to always be curious and questioning of religions. In 1980 he impressed by the example of some teenage gymnasts he coached at a summer camp, and he soon became a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He served as a volunteer missionary (1983-1985) in Ireland, the land of his ancestors and many living cousins.

He married Rona Leigh Oldham in 1988 in the Salt Lake Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. They have four children. Michael, who serves in the U.S. Navy, Katharine who is serving as an LDS missionary,