Dan hails from Old Hickory, Tennessee (just outside Nashville). He began playing piano and composing music at an early age and went on to study composition and jazz piano at Oberlin Conservatory. After moving to New York in 2003 to play jazz, he began writing for music theater as well. He spent four years in the BMI Lehman Engels Musical Theater Workshop.  

Dan is founder of Brooklyn Tavern Theater, which puts on original musicals in taverns in Brooklyn and beyond:  

www.brooklyntaverntheater.com  

He is composer/lyricist/bookwriter of "Impossible But True,"  and composer and lyricist for "Ybor City" (with Anita Gonzalez, bookwriter) and "Sign In the Six O'Clock Sky" (with bookwriter Arnold Schulman).  He is currently developing “Walls and Windows,” an immersive musical based on the work of Edward Hopper.  Another upcoming project is a collaboration with bookwriter/lyricist Lawrence Herman on "The Treasurer Has Absconded With The Money."  

He lives in Brooklyn with neuroscientist Kim Allen, two bunnies and a dove and works as a jazz pianist and vocal accompanist at clubs and acting schools in Manhattan.