TIGHTROPE STUDIO

Dan is co-founder of Impro Theatre/Los Angeles Theatresports and BATS Improv in San Francisco. He is an actor, writer, director, producer and improviser. 

Improvisation and Theatre credits include the Improbable Theatre’s production of Keith Johnstone’s Life Game (Off-Broadway); work and ACT. He has been a director at the Out of Bounds festival, The Yes And Festival in NYC, The Lighten Up Theatre Fest, the Calgary and Vancouver International Improvisation Festivals, MITICO in Milan, the Dubai Fringe, the MOMENT Festival in Vienna, TORN in Hamburg, the Global Improv Initiative at UC Irvine and Middlesex University, Charleston Comedy Festival and at the ITI Conference “Improv Ecology” in Vancouver. 

Dan has taught for playwriting/screenwriting programs UCSB and DUKE. He was an adjunct professor for USC‘s BFA program and has also taught in the MBA Program for the University of Texas, the National Alliance of Acting Teachers and the Directors Lab West. He has been a consultant and trainer for Cirque du Soleil, Dreamworks and Disney Animation.

Dan has co-authored two books with Jeff Katzman about using improvisation to lead a more happy and engaged life both published by North Atlantic Books:
Life UnScripted-Using Improv Principles to Get Unstuck, Boost Confidence, and Transform Your Life
Ensemble! Using the Power of Improv To Forge Connections in a Lonely World 

Television directing credits include the critically acclaimed ABC hybrid sit-com Sons and Daughters and Campus Ladies for the Oxygen Network. He was a writer and the improv director for The Wayne Brady Show. He co-created the NBC/PAX television improv comedy show World Cup Comedy. Television acting credits include everything from Seinfeld toThe Righteous Gemstones.He trained at the American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco and is a graduate of the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art in London.