DANNY SALLES
writer-director-producer
showrunner

DANNY is a writer/director/producer for television and theater. He directed the holiday movie, “The Christmas Thief" for ION TV and 4 seasons of the ABC hit comedy “The Middle”. He was showrunner and director on various comedic TV reality series: Joan Rivers’ “Joan and Melissa” (WeTV), “Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List” (Bravo, Emmy nomination), “Todrick” (MTV), and co-directed last year’s Emmy-winning “Recipe for Change” (YouTube).  He has worked on a wide range of unscripted series from documentaries ("Prop Culture" on Disney+) to competition ("The Pop Game" on Lifetime and "I Want to Work for Diddy" on VH1) to comedy-hybrid ("The Joe Schmo Show" on Spike and "Faking the Video" which he created for MTV.  He's also served as the show director for Jeffrey Katzenberg's annual WNDRCO multi-media event for the last 4 years.

 

For the stage, Danny co-wrote the book and lyrics and served as the associate director of the hit Off-Broadway musical, "Vape! The Grease Parody," at Theater 555.  Previously the show held a sold-out benefit concert at NY's Town Hall, starring Jackie Hoffman, Kerry Butler, James Carpinello, Ann Harada and Rachel Dratch.  He directed the Off-Broadway musical “The Perfect Game,” and wrote book and lyrics and directed the musical comedy satire “The First Annual Trump Family Special” in LA and Off-Broadway starring Gina Gershon, and recently directed a reading of a new play, "Yesterday's Bread" with Mary Testa and Annie Golden, and the comedy "David and Goliath!" starring Laura Bell Bundy. Danny currently serves as Director of Creative Development at production and theater management company Visceral Entertainment in Manhattan.

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