Dan Wessels Email & Phone Number

Los Angeles, California, United States

- Manage the workflow of the audio team and composers- Ensure audio deliverables remain on time and on track- Serve as a liaison between the audio team, creative team, the production pipeline, and any external or internal stakeholders.- Provide all notes with stakeholders to ensure next steps and actionables are completed by the necessary audio team.

Los Angeles, California, United States

Teach weekly private piano lessons to students ages 5-40Customized lessons to each students’ needs and musical taste

Greater Los Angeles Area

Produce and mix music for theatrical shows and filmed material, edit solo video footage to create virtual choir videos for online showsFacilitate remote classes and rehearsals over Zoom. Create all digital assets for remote shows and classes. Assets include: tempo-mapped backing accompaniment tracks, digital recordings that teach students their melodies.

Greater Los Angeles Area

Teach weekly private piano lessons to students ages 5-40Emphasis on teaching the basics of melody, harmony, rhythm, and ear training through original examples and pieces, supplemented by solo piano arrangements I make of songs that each student wants to learn.

Greater Los Angeles Area

Play piano with an acting troupe that tours to schools performing plays that were adapted from stories written by kids. Responsibilities include: composing and performing original underscore for each play, writing and performing original songs based on stories submitted to us, rehearsal, vocal health of the cast.

Greater Los Angeles Area

Teach musical improvisation classes to kids, teens and adultsCollaborate with directors and writers, compose music that best tells the story for original theatrical shows. Co-write lyrics with writers, then compose, arrange and teach songs for productionsImprovise underscore on the piano for live improv shows. Learn genres well enough to improvise in them.

Washington, District Of Columbia, United States

Composed and produced all original music, taught original songs to the actors, designed/edited/mixed all sound effects and voice overs on-site, and programmed all music to loop and transition dynamically, based on the action onstageThe Kennedy Center’s 2018 holiday comedy, a co-production with The Second City. Revived for the 2019 holiday season.

Greater Los Angeles Area, New York City

Co-composer, co-lyricist, and co-author of the hit off-Broadway musical "50 Shades! The Musical Parody". The show ran off-Broadway, and has played at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Chicago, Los Angeles, Germany, Amsterdam, Paris, and around the US on tour. Orchestrator of the US touring production. http://www.50shadesthemusical.com/

Los Angeles, Chicago, Edinburgh Fringe Festival

Collaborated remotely with a team of comedy writers, composing the original score to a parody musical lampooning “Game of Thrones”. Sold out productions in Los Angeles, the Sydney Opera House, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and Adelaide Fringe FestivalProduced backing tracks and sheet music, shared worldwide with different productions, while updating the show.

Los Angeles, New York City, Chicago

Composed, arranged, and performed the dynamic score live for the LA productionWorked remotely with the New York music team on the new songs for the Off-Broadway production. Produced backing tracks with click track for the music director to play along with live

Composed all music to script, and performed live on-set on both synthesizer and a upright pianoAn original 10-episode sci-fi web series produced by Geek & Sundry and Pilgrim Media Group. Performed in the style of a radio play

Greater Chicago Area

Freelance music director. I compose and improvise scores on the piano to various sketch comedy, improv, and children's theatre performances.

Greater Chicago Area

Responsibilities included: freelance web design, web programming, data entry, and database management.