Guest Designer
Over 250 productions, notably: fifteen world-premieres including The Flight (State Theater, Kathmandu, Nepal), Dreaming Glacier Bay (Perseverance Theatre, Juneau, Alaska), Facing the Calm (Knightsbridge Theatre, Los Angeles), and One November Yankee (NoHo Arts Center, Delaware Theatre Co., transferred Off-Broadway to the 59e59st Theaters), other Off-Broadway: The Runner Stumbles (Beckett), The Dining Room (Beckett and Dorset Theatre Festival); Regional credits include Angels In America (Yale Drama), Los Angeles: Elizabeth Rex (Ovation Award, Best Set Design), Mother Courage, Company (LA Weekly Annual Theater Award nominations), Much Ado About Nothing, Godspell (in American Sign Language). Dana loves to come home to his family at SRT, this being a remount of one of eight scenic designs here; others include Forever Plaid, Anna in the Tropics, A Christmas Story, Mamma Mia!, and The Glass Menagerie. Dana is a Professor at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas where he has designed numerous productions including Kiss Me Kate, A Funny Thing… and Legally Blonde. He earned his Bachelor of Arts at Whitman College, and his MFA at NYU/Tisch School of the Arts.
When a die-hard theatre fan plays his favorite cast album, the characters come to life in this hilarious Tony Award-winning musical farce. Hailed by New York Magazine as "The Perfect Broadway Musical," The Drowsy Chaperone is a loving send-up of the Golden Age musical, featuring one show-stopping song and dance number after another.
The greatest fairy tale never told comes to life in Shrek The Musical, the award-winning Broadway musical comedy adventure based on the Oscar-winning film.