Managed to get my latest 1-minute reel scene up online - Tom Joad and Ma Joad from the Grapes of Wrath. So pleased with the work of my acting partner, Lynda Clark and videographer, Melanie Simmons. Special thanks to Mark Phialas, Brent Flory, and Julie Davis for their crew work and Julie’s makeup effects on this oh so cold night shoot. Looking forward to editing a full length version of this scene this winter.
Finally got my latest 1-minute reel scene up online - Tom Joad and Jim Casy from the Grapes of Wrath. Shot this out in our backyard on a small set I built out there. Thrilled with the work of my acting partner, Mark Phialas and videographer, Melanie Simmons. Looking forward to editing a full length version of this scene this winter.
My new headshots by Areon Mobasher are fantastic - but they were very specific with all of them presenting me with a shaved head. After months of growing it out again I took some new photos with Kearsten Petra Leder of Kearsten Leder Photography. I could not be happier with that experience or with the results of that shoot. Take a look at my new pics HERE!
Our 1-minute Brick & Maggie reel clips from our Cat on a Hot Tin Roof scenes is now LIVE online and on our social media. Take a look!
Of late I’ve been working on getting my acting reel a bit more current, a bit more “me”, and a bit more aspirationally accurate for the actor I wish to be - and the actor I wish to be perceived as. That said, I connected with my fellow Talent One colleague, Melanie Simmons, and worked on two Brick & Maggie scenes from Tennessee Williams’ Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. We’re still editing the footage into various clips/versions for our reels but here are a few sample images from the footage to let you know what’s coming very soon!
It feels like it was just yesterday that Areon Mobasher shot my headshots in May of 2020… well a lot can happen in a year. Global pandemic. Insane diet and fitness routine changes with E2M Personal Training, resulting in a massive weight loss of more than 45lbs! It’s been a crazy year!! But the reshoot in March of 2021 was a success - take a look here…
My friend and colleague, Areon Mobasher, (of Areon Media) helped me to create a new Acting Reel to showcase some samples of my work. Take a look here!
So excited to share that I will be returning to PlayMakers Repertory Company @playmakersrep in a few short weeks to join this amazing cast and play Britten (the Private Detective) et al, in Native Son, adapted by Nambi E. Kelly and Directed by Colette Robert. The show runs from September 11-29.
Overjoyed to share that I just got to do the role of Mitchell in a PlayMakers Rep reading of Cry it Out, by Molly Smith Metzler, directed by Vivienne Benesch, as a part of the Women's Theatre Festival 2019. The entire cast is made up of actual parents - (who are dealing with parenting issues on a daily basis) since that's the world in which this play is set - a slice of the lives of new parents of babies! The reading took place on Saturday July 13th at 1PM at Burning Coal Theatre. The cast included: Jessie: Molly Ward, Adrienne: Rachel Spencer Hewitt, and Lina: Katie Paxton.
As of January 2019, Dan has joined Triangle ArtWorks as its ArtSwell Program Manager (and first official hire), where he will be working with eight regional partner organizations to build and launch an ongoing, year-round, professional development program for the arts.
Dan was recently cast as Boris Pronsky in Theatre Raleigh’s summer 2019 production of Junk, directed by Charlie Brady!
This March Dan will make his PlayMakers Repertory Theatre Mainstage debut in Bertold Brecht’s The Life of Galileo, directed by PlayMaker’s Artistic Director, Vivienne Benesch. (Dan is playing The Doge, The Chamberlain, Old Cardinal’s Attendant, Gaffone, and understudying the role of Galileo.)
Dan recently performed the role of Mark in the Regional Premiere of Rory Kinnear’s The Herd with Honest Pint Theatre Company at NRACT. Directed by David Henderson. (Pictured here with Jess Barbour as Claire)
In August I had the incredible fortune of playing Pale in Burn This with Sonorous Road Repertory Company and reconnecting onstage opposite my old PCPA classmate and friend, Danielle Koppel in the process... The theatre is a small world! Burn This by Lanford Wilson was directed by the incomparable Tony Lea and will ran August 3-19.
I had the opportunity to take part in a reading this April, of Illegal Helpers by Maxi Obexer (translated by Neil Blackadder) and directed by Talya Klein at PlayMakers Repertory Theatre in Chapel Hill. This was a part of PlayMakers Repertory Company's new works festival, Making Tracks.
I recently completed my acting work on the World Premier run of Mike Wiley's, Blood Done Sign My Name at Raleigh Little Theatre, a true story, in which I played Oxford, NC's poet laureate, Thad Stem Jr., and other roles. It was a powerful ensemble production of an important new work, based on the book by Timothy Tyson, and directed by Joseph Megel! The show ran May 11 - 27, 2018 in the Gaddy-Goodwin Teaching Theatre.
I just finished a successful run of Stephen Sondheim's Assassins at Theatre in the Park in Raleigh - my first theatre experience here in North Carolina - directed by David Henderson. Can't say enough great things about this theatre, the company of Assassins, and the lovely people I have encountered along this road!
