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Dan

Stay alive no matter what occurs!

About Me

Five tool player with power to all fields...I am a hyphenate. I have been an actor since I was 9 and an improviser since I was 14. I started writing and directing when I moved to Hollywood. Recently I directed episodes of the terrific improv hybrid television show “Campus Ladies” on Oxygen. Currently I am the “Dial for Men” body wash guy. Go figure. I am also writing and producing a pilot presentation with Steve Atinsky, Stephen Kearin and David Steinberg for a yet un-named lucky television network. I am also an actor in it. I am either greedy or delusional.I do continue to rock hard, though now it’s usually at traffic lights.

My Interests

Edi, travel, comedy improv, wine, food and Travel with Edi.

I'd like to meet:

Edi under the boardwalk.

Music:

Radiohead, The Shins, Ben Lee, The Beatles, EWF, Marvin Gaye, Van Morrison, The Doors, Neil Young, Neil Finn, Wilco, Toots and the Maytals, The Killers, Ben Kweller, Modest Mouse, Crowded House again, Richard Thompson, Captain Genius and Elvis Costello

Movies:

Breaker Morant and Baby's Day Out

Television:

The late great "Sons and Daughters" on ABC. "Campus Ladies" on Oxygen. Deadwood, Deadwood, Deadwood. Battlestar Galactica, The Wire, Sopranos, Curb Your Enthusiasm...

Books:

Endurance, anything by Bill Bryson, Stella Duffy, Shakespeare, Chekhov, Dickens, Sedaris, Behan, Carver, Nick Hornby, Joseph O'Connor, Frank McCourt, Frank Herbert, and Lonely Planet.

Heroes:

Edi Patterson, Richard Pryor, Jonathan Winters, Bob Newhart, Bill Cosby, Frank Capra, Ron Howard, Bruce Beresford, Python, Beyond the Fringe, Jimmy Stewart, Carson, Phil Hartman, Clapton, Prince, John Ford, Dave Chapelle, John Adams, JFK, Talking Heads, Neil Young, Seinfeld and Larry David, Steinberg, Lennon/McCartney, J-Rich, Montana/Young, Will Clark, John Hughes, The Steves, Ellen Plummer, Willie Mac, Frank and Dean, The Stones, The Who and Willie Mays.