Dani Davis Email & Phone Number

New York, Ny, Us

New York, New York, United States

• Led award-winning teams to produce Broadway musicals and corporate events, ensuring financial and creative success.• Collaborated with national media companies to deliver joyful entertainment experiences.• Emmy winner, Helen Hayes Award winner, Tony nominee for various projects.Current roster projects: Shrek the Musical on Tour, Grief Dialogues - the Experience, Cindy of Arc off Broadway.

United States

Credits:Film: Grief Dialogues - the Experience DirectorVirtual Stage Lab, 2024Cindy of Arc - Director, Producer Ordeal Music Productions, 2020Cinequest Film Festival 2021Television:Handel's Messiah Rocks (PBS) starring Keith Lockhart, the Boston Pops, LaChanze, Mig Ayesa, Robert J. Spencer. Written by Jason Howland, Billy J. Stein, and Dani Davis - Director7 Emmy Nominations - 2 winsKenny Rogers' A Christmas Gift (Hallmark)… Show more Credits:Film: Grief Dialogues - the Experience DirectorVirtual Stage Lab, 2024Cindy of Arc - Director, Producer Ordeal Music Productions, 2020Cinequest Film Festival 2021Television:Handel's Messiah Rocks (PBS) starring Keith Lockhart, the Boston Pops, LaChanze, Mig Ayesa, Robert J. Spencer. Written by Jason Howland, Billy J. Stein, and Dani Davis - Director7 Emmy Nominations - 2 winsKenny Rogers' A Christmas Gift (Hallmark) starring Kenny Rogers - ChoreographerNational ToursHandel's Messiah Rocks (NETworks Tours) - DirectorKenny Rogers' A Christmas Gift (National Tour) ChoreographerBroadway The Scarlet Pimpernel (Broadway) Associate ChoreographerOff BroadwayGrief Dialogues- The Experience (The Lab), DirectorCindy of Arc (Laurie Beechman Theater, Dixon Place, the 52nd Street Project) DirectorRegional Theater: Cindy of Arc - The Intiman Theater, Seattle, DirectorCindy of Arc - The Baltimore Theater Project, Director UMPO Jaws at the White Lotus (The Crown and Anchor) Director , ChoreographerUMPO Jaws at the White Lotus (The Palm Puerta Vallarta), Director, ChoreographerMamma Mia! (Cape Rep Theatre) Director/ChoreographerWrinkles the musical (Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater) DirectorThe Full Monty, (Cape Rep Theatre) Director/ChoreographerUMPO Summer Blockbusters (Cape Rep Theatre) ChoreographerXanadu (Cape Rep Theatre), Director Show less

Massachusetts

For this award winning regional theater at which she had previously directed two sold out musical productions (Xanadu, 2010, Mamma Mia, 2018), Dani brought her Broadway and touring producing experience to serve as a consulting Executive Producer, for its 2019 season. Dani identified systemic organizational challenges, implemented a collaborative production process for the theater's five main stage productions, recommended revenue raising opportunities, cultivated 6 figure private funding for… Show more For this award winning regional theater at which she had previously directed two sold out musical productions (Xanadu, 2010, Mamma Mia, 2018), Dani brought her Broadway and touring producing experience to serve as a consulting Executive Producer, for its 2019 season. Dani identified systemic organizational challenges, implemented a collaborative production process for the theater's five main stage productions, recommended revenue raising opportunities, cultivated 6 figure private funding for campus capital expansion projects, and brought her New York City network to the theater creatively, raising the profile of the institution. In addition to producing the profitable 2019 season, which included contracting and supervising the 130 member artist and production staff, licensing intellectual property, setting and realizing the just short of $1 million annual operating budget, she directed the theater's sold out main musical, The Full Monty, and choreographed a new musical commissioned by the theater, UMPO Summer Blockbusters. Show less

Greater New York City Area

Her personal passion for equal opportunity for women, combined with her knowledge that entertainment can accelerate change led her to co-found Girl Starter - a media company devoted to building out businesses created by teenage girls across the U.S. With a $5.2 million operating budget, 100% funded by corporate partnerships with Visa, Staples, AT&T, Microsoft, Vera Bradley, Pilot Pens, with a simple six step start up curriculum, Girl Starter aired its tv show, Girl Starter, on TLC and… Show more Her personal passion for equal opportunity for women, combined with her knowledge that entertainment can accelerate change led her to co-found Girl Starter - a media company devoted to building out businesses created by teenage girls across the U.S. With a $5.2 million operating budget, 100% funded by corporate partnerships with Visa, Staples, AT&T, Microsoft, Vera Bradley, Pilot Pens, with a simple six step start up curriculum, Girl Starter aired its tv show, Girl Starter, on TLC and Discovery featuring 8 entrepreneurial young women mentored by thought leaders, corporate leaders, and successful entrepreneurs and investors, while Girl Starter Live toured the east coast, mentoring close to 1,000 young women on the ground to create business, and linking them to thought leaders and business makers in their area. As Chief Creative Officer of the company, Dani worked directly with CMO's and CEO's at each of Girl Starter's corporate partner companies, to secure their financial support, as well as to create media content with and for those companies that reflected the common values of both the corporation and Girl Starter's agenda, fulfilling the corporate partnerships' agreements. She liased with the Discovery and TLC network executives to achieve exposure for the television series, and oversaw the Girl Starter social media content strategy. She co-wrote the six episodes of the television series, and served as an Executive Producer of the television series with Al Roker Productions, and as co-producer for the live East Coast US tour. www.girlstarter.com. Show less

New York City

For NETworks Presentations, the world's premiere Broadway touring company, Dani served as Executive Producer for high profile, special projects for national and international touring and exploitation; overseeing individual production budgets of $2 - $3 million, for a total of up to $9 million per year, recouping those costs, and realizing profit in excess of 25% on average per production. She supervised 350 people per season, negotiating all contracts, as well as worked directly with… Show more For NETworks Presentations, the world's premiere Broadway touring company, Dani served as Executive Producer for high profile, special projects for national and international touring and exploitation; overseeing individual production budgets of $2 - $3 million, for a total of up to $9 million per year, recouping those costs, and realizing profit in excess of 25% on average per production. She supervised 350 people per season, negotiating all contracts, as well as worked directly with stakeholders, aligning creative, managerial, and financial choices to maximize profit, to ensure high production quality for audiences and presenting partners, and establish efficient operations for each production. Her projects included Billy Elliot the musical (Working Title/Universal) (Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Non Resident Production), DreamWorks' Shrek the musical (DreamWorks), Little Women - the Broadway Musical, Flashdance - a new musical (Paramount Pictures), and The Wedding Singer (Universal), each project enjoying multiple years of touring primary, secondary, and tertiary markets, and each turning profit under her leadership. Show less

New York City

As President of Half Pint Productions, Dani developed shows, content, and training to strengthen and support the business of Broadway. During her tenure, she was the lead Producer for Little Women the musical on Broadway starring Sutton Foster and Maureen McGovern (2 Drama Desk noms, 1 Tony nom). She co-produced Martin McDonagh's The Lonesome West on Broadway (4 Tony nominations). She co-produced large scale Broadway music benefit projects including The Dreams in You for the September 11th… Show more As President of Half Pint Productions, Dani developed shows, content, and training to strengthen and support the business of Broadway. During her tenure, she was the lead Producer for Little Women the musical on Broadway starring Sutton Foster and Maureen McGovern (2 Drama Desk noms, 1 Tony nom). She co-produced Martin McDonagh's The Lonesome West on Broadway (4 Tony nominations). She co-produced large scale Broadway music benefit projects including The Dreams in You for the September 11th fund and Go Girls, for UNICEF. She helmed the profitable Half Pint Studios, a Broadway musical boot camp and consulting space serving hundreds of Broadway and music theater professionals. Clients appeared in all 14 running Broadway musicals, myriad touring productions, and regional theater across the US. Half Pint Studios Outreach worked with college pre-professionals via immersion weekends and master classes. Show less

Dancer/Singer in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat among other shows on Broadway and national tours.