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Gender	Male
Industry	Arts
Occupation	Actor/writer/teacher/director
Introduction	Dane cut his improv teeth early,studying at the Fabled Children’s Theatre School of Minneapolis as a kid, improv was used extensively to develop full-length plays, whcih progressed into several teen years doing Commedia del Arte at Renaissance festivals with some of the best of them. A graduate of NYU’s TIsch School of the Arts, Dane studied w/ Olympia Dukakis, and theatre games with Omar Shapli, one of the founding members of Compass theatre and Second City Chicago , becoming a resident company member of Dudley Riggs’s Brave New Workshop, writing sketches and improvising nightly . In addition to over 25 year career as an actor, and playwright, he continues to study, perform and teach improv, yoga, voice and acting.. He was cast leader on the Inaugural improv cruise of “The Disney Magic” Studied in Los Angeles with Avery Schreiber, of Second City and “Burns and Schreiber” fame. (Not to mention the Doritos ad.) He currently performs with “Smokehouse,” an alumni ensemble at Second City Hollywood, and frankly, just about anywhere else he can.