Currently living in
New York City,
Dan Fields (Director/Producer) was
Resident Director of Disney’s Broadway production of
The Lion King, where he assisted director
Julie Taymor from its inception.
In
Seattle, as Resident Director at Annex Theatre, he directed the world premières of
A Little Heap of Beckett,
The 20th Century,
This End Up, and
Betty in Bondage.
He assistant directed the original productions of
Conversations With My Father (Seattle Repertory Theater),
Randy Newman’s
Faust (
La Jolla Playhouse and the
Goodman Theater), as well as other productions at
Intiman Playhouse and The Empty Space Theater.
At Williamstown Theater Festival he was Assistant Director for a production of
Chekhov’s
The Seagull featuring
Christopher Walken,
Gwyneth Paltrow, and
Blythe Danner.
He served as Artistic Associate at
Manhattan Theatre Club where he produced the Broadway premieres of
Richard Greenberg's
The Violet Hour and
Donald Margulies'
Sight Unseen.
Fields has been a member of the
Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab since 1996.
He is the founding Artistic Director of Finesilver Shows, a New York-based theatrical production company.
He adapted and directed Finesilver Shows’ inaugural production of
Roald Dahl’s
Tales of the Unexpected, four short stories by Roald Dahl.
He recently directed and produced the acclaimed revival of
Arthur Miller's
The Man Who Had All The Luck in
Los Angeles.