Dan’s play The Violin is currently on a Sold Out Open-Ended run in its first International production in Prague at The Ungelt Theater.  And most recently, The Violin received its World Premiere Off-Broadway production at 59E59 Theatre in NYC and featured Tony Award nominee Robert LuPone.  His play Homeless and How We Got That Way was produced at The Detroit Repertory Theatre and was also awarded a $25,000 Grant from The Arcus Foundation for its NYC Premiere with Roust Theatre Company; both actors nominated for Best Actor in The Oscar Wilde Awards in Detroit.  His play The Morons was nominated for Best Production in Origin Theatre's First Irish Festival and he has been a Finalist in The Samuel French Festival with his play Accidental Encounter.  Dan's 9/11 play On The Day and The Days That Followed has also been accepted into the National 9/11 Memorial and Museum’s Artists Registry and has been performed in University’s, High Schools and Middle Schools in New York, Nebraska, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Georgia; several winning Best Play for their productions.  He is represented by The Robert A. Freedman Dramatic Agency and is a member of The Actors Studio Playwrights and Directors Workshop as a playwright and NJ Rep, Actors Equity, SAG-AFTRA as an actor.  As a singer-songwriter, he is a member of ASCAP and a former voting member of the Recording Academy, with both his albums Broadway Lights and Edge of America Bound making the Grammy Awards Entry Ballot.  And his upcoming EP entitled 4-4-U will be released in the Spring of 2020.  All songs available on iTunes, Amazon and Spotify.  Spotify Link - https://open.spotify.com/user/31i6baceug65hn3ciqjlwrpticwi/playlist/3ZSoL1hNKlBvu4txOTS51X?si=3VtZs4JfQLWsjPWqqDoMjA 

Paul Blankenship  (Director)

Paul’s directing credits include many productions at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York City where he also has taught Voice and Speech for the Actor, Acting Styles and Theatre History.  Other directing projects include productions at Missouri State University and Columbia College.  He has been the Production Stage Manager of several Off-Broadway productions including Fiercely Independent, Maestro, Because I Could Not Stop: An Encounter with Emily Dickinson and The Fantasticks. His acting credits include Off-Broadway: Hereafter Musical, If This Hat Could Talk, A Doll’s Life, Elizabeth and Essex, Colette Collage, The Fantasticks, Café Society. Regional: The School For Husbands (Westport Country Playhouse), The Bungler (Long Wharf Theatre), Wonderful Tennessee (McCarter Theatre), Mirette (Goodspeed Opera House), Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story (Walnut Street Theatre), My Fair Lady (Cleveland Opera), The Grapes of Wrath (Cleveland Play House), Play It By Heart (The Human Race Theatre Co.), Steel Pier (Actors’ Playhouse), Jacques Brel (Florida Studio Theatre), Romeo and Juliet (Alley Theatre), Othello, All’s Well That Ends Well (Shakespeare Festival of Dallas), A Midsummer Night’s Dream, As You Like It (Houston Shakespeare Festival).  Tours: The Fantasticks (National & Japanese Tours), Jesus Christ Superstar (European Tour), Camelot (World Tour w/Richard Harris), Senator Joe (National Tour), The Glass Menagerie (National Tour).  Paul received an MFA in Acting from Southern Methodist University.