CURRENT PROJECTS
“Once upon a time, there was a little ogre named Shrek….” Yes, your favorite ogre is back in the hilarious stage spectacle based on the Oscar®-winning, smash hit, DreamWorks animated film. Tony Award-winning duo Jeanine Tesori (music) and David Lindsay-Abaire (book) revisit their first collaboration to deliver a more intimate and engaging experience – a joyful, colorful SHREK that leans into the humanity in all of us that celebrates our differences. With all-new original direction and choreography by Danny Mefford (Choreographer, Dear Evan Hansen) filled with lush orchestrations, this reimagined production brings the show back to its roots – giving it a new kind of love emphasizing the importance of loving ourselves and one another.
The live experience and film, directed by Emmy award winner Dani Davis, is an assembly of short plays by diverse playwrights in an evocative immersive setting, offering a distinctive lens on grief as a natural experience born out of love. From heart-wrenching moments to humor and even a twist on a ghost story, the plays are crafted to provoke thought, emotion, and reflection.
This original immersive experience gives audiences agency as they move through the worlds of the plays with the characters - choosing their own path, engaging with the space and the stories of the experience, to touch in on their own relationship with grief..
Everyday Dreams and Ordeal Music present Cindy of Arc, a comedy and rock music extravaganza about the problem men have with lying and where that's gotten the rest of us.
Think American Utopia but with expletives, politics, religion, dogs, Nazis, twelve songs, no David Byrne, and no Utopia. And no choreographer. And no money. And it’s a comedy. And we wear our shoes. But otherwise, very similar.
PODCASTS AND INTERVIEWS
Dani Interviews with Nick Demos talking about
Returning to your Inner Child
Learning to say No
The Unwritten contracts and how you break them
The internal shifts that are required for alignment
Interview for “In the Balance” Podcast
“If you mentor women, you can take care of a whole society.”
How do Broadway artists think about leading and connecting with the audience in storytelling?
Sanyin Siang (Executive Director of the Coach K Leadership School, Duke University) speaks with Dani about “Ratcheting up the stakes”
Meet Dani Davis, Executive Producer of SHREK: The Musical
Broadway Theatre League of Utica Interviews Dani as she prepares to open the Shrek Tour!