Dan owns and manages Beechmast Wood, a 10acre parcel of SSCI woodland in Goudhurst Kent.  He is currently Co-Directing and Co-Producing Understorey-- a site-specific performance installation in the woodland, expected to preview this May before it’s official 2008 launch.

From 1981-1983, Dan directed the Golden Valley Farm Project, which he also Co-Founded. A founding member and Co-Director of The Rose Theatre Company International from 1991 to 2003, Dan also acted in several productions including King Lear, As You Like it, Pericles, I Hamlet, Hard Times, 13 Mirrors, Faustuslite.  As Director, his 13 Mirrors, Faustuslite, and Beauty and the Beast all received 4 and 5 star reviews at the Edinburgh festival.  From 2000-2004 he directed the Rose Theatre Training Academy, a rural theatre training-programme at the Penquoit Centre in Wales. 

Additional acting credits include Rudolf Steiner’s four Mystery Plays (1992-1996), which toured London, Rotterdam, Bonn, Stockholm, Helsinki, Vancouver, Chicago, Toronto and New York, and Pandora’s Box (Pantheatre, 2001-2002). Most recently, he acted in Shift (2006), a short film directed by James Harvey.

Dan’s teaching experience includes his role as Garden and Workshop Supervisor for People with Learning Difficulties at the Camphill Village Trust Community in North Yorkshire (1979-81).  He also taught voice at the London International School for Performing Arts (2004), and drama as part of the Leighton Project for people with Learning Difficulties (2006).