Dan Fishbach is a Los Angeles-based director and professor.  Recent directing credits include Crazy For You (Oklahoma City University,) Side by Side by Sondheim (Odyssey Theatre, L.A.) Noises Off (Oklahoma City,) the critically-acclaimed production Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris at The Odyssey Theatre,  Sondheim & Weidman’s Assassins at the Pico Playhouse (BroadwayWorld Award nom., StageRaw nom., Robby Award nom.), the workshop production of We're Here for You (Las Vegas, NV), the international tour of One Night Stand: An Improvised Musical for producer Marc Platt (Wicked), Steven Dietz’s Private Eyes and Nicky Silver’s The Maiden’s Prayer (The Raven Theatre), the world premiere of Anthony Mora’s play Silencing Silas, HAIR (collaboration with original author James Rado,) The 25th Annual Putnam Co. Spelling Bee, Chicago, Company and Spring Awakening for USC’s School of Dramatic Arts.  

 

Professionally Dan has worked with many artists, including Alan Cumming, Kurtwood Smith, Peter Gallagher, Michelle Monaghan, Alanis Morissette, Jason Alexander, Wendy Malick, Tim Crouch, Josh Radnor and others.

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Dan has been on the faculty at The USC School of Dramatic Arts, Oklahoma City University School of Theatre, Cal Poly Pomona, Kenyon College, Santa Monica College, The American Musical and Dramatic Academy, and Harvard-Westlake School, where he was Head of Performing Arts for six years. From 2006-2008,  Dan served as the director of The Groundlings Theatre and School in Los Angeles.

 

He is the co-founder and co-director of The Los Angeles Musical Theater Studio, a training ground for professional musical-theater actors.  Dan has created curriculum and courses in musical theatre for numerous institutions and organizations and specializes in Musical Theatre History.

 

A graduate of Kenyon College, Dan is an alumnus of the Director’s Lab West and is a member of the SDC, The Society of Directors and Choreographers, the Musical Theatre Educator's Alliance, and ATHE (Assoc. for Theatre in Higher Education.)