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Danny Scheie

Professor Emeritus, Theater Arts
Acting, directing, dramatic literature, theater history, Shakespeare, Wagner, gay studies
Teaching Interests: 

Acting, Directing, Shakespeare, Queer Theater, Wagner, Musicals, Baseball

Honors and Awards: 
  • Three Bay Area Critics Circle awards for Leading Actor: Nero in Amy Freed's You Nero at South Coast Rep; Berkeley Rep; Arena Stage (Washington DC) Adam in Last Fall at San Jose Rep Guy Voss in Doug Holsclaw's The Last Hairdresser at Theater Rhinoceros (SF); The Zephyr Theater (LA)
  • Two BACC Awards for Supporting Actor: Pieces of the Quilt at the Magic Theater (SF), Walter in Shaw's You Never Can Tell at California Shakespeare Theater
  • Two BACC Awards for Ensemble:Apollo in Chuck Mee's Orestes at the Nourse Auditorium (SF) Mr. Mantalini in Nicholas Nickleby at California Shakespeare Theater
  • BACC Award for Directing: Comedy of Errors at Aurora Theater (Berkeley)
  • The Inaugural Theater Bay Area Award for Leading Actor as Dromio of Ephesus and Syracuse in The Comedy of Errors at California Shakespeare Theater
  • The New Jersey Tony for Bottom in Midsummer Night's Dream (Two River Theater)
  • Robbie Nomination for Best Supporting Actor in the American premiere of Noël Coward's Star Quality at Pasadena Playhouse
  • Helen Hayes Nomination for Best Supporting Actor as Grumio in Taming of the Shrew at the Folger Theater in Washington DC
  • Backstage West Garland Award for Director: The Tempest at Shakespeare Santa Cruz
Selected Presentations: 

Directed the west coast premiere of Colman Domingo’s Wild With Happy and the world premiere of Jessica Hagedorn’s Fe in the Desert. His direction has also been seen at Here in Soho, The Pleasance in Edinburgh, London’s Battersea Arts Centre, and as a member of the Stage Direction staff at New York’s Metropolitan Opera’s Meistersinger von Nürnberg which is still appearing in the repertory after twenty-five years.