Daniel Rover Singer

Daniel Rover Singer

DANIEL ROVER SINGER has been a theatrical impresario from the moment he looked up the word ‘impresario’ in the dictionary (it took a few more years for him to spell it correctly). He co-founded his first company, General Amazement Theater in Santa Rosa, California, when he was just 17. Upon his return from studying at the Guildford School of Acting in the U.K., he became a director at the original Renaissance...
DANIEL ROVER SINGER has been a theatrical impresario from the moment he looked up the word ‘impresario’ in the dictionary (it took a few more years for him to spell it correctly). He co-founded his first company, General Amazement Theater in Santa Rosa, California, when he was just 17. Upon his return from studying at the Guildford School of Acting in the U.K., he became a director at the original Renaissance Pleasure Faire, where he founded the subversive Reduced Shakespeare Company, whose three-man farce "The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged)" enjoyed a record-breaking run in London’s West End and has since become one of the world’s most popular comedy shows. In 1989 Daniel hung up his doublet-and-hose to design theme park attractions at Walt Disney Imagineering, where he also co-founded the Flower Street Players, an in-house theater company for Disney employees. Since 2000, Daniel has been a freelance designer, writer and event producer in Los Angeles. He also directs and sings with the pirate band QuarterMaster.

Plays

  • LOUISA@FRUITLANDS: The True Story of Louisa May Alcott's "Transcendental Wild Oats"
    1862: 29-year-old Louisa May Alcott has successfully published some lurid adventure stories. But when challenged to write something more personal, she resists. Recalling how her quirky family had made the optimistic mistake of joining an experimental farm commune when she was an imaginative but rather feral ten-year-old, Louisa reflects on how much she matured, as a person and a writer, as a result of that...
    1862: 29-year-old Louisa May Alcott has successfully published some lurid adventure stories. But when challenged to write something more personal, she resists. Recalling how her quirky family had made the optimistic mistake of joining an experimental farm commune when she was an imaginative but rather feral ten-year-old, Louisa reflects on how much she matured, as a person and a writer, as a result of that traumatic but empowering summer among the philosophers at Fruitlands.
  • STEAMBOAT MICKEY
    In spite of daunting obstacles, a bankrupt but ambitious young artist moves from Kansas City to 1920s Hollywood determined to find success making animated cartoons. Based on real events in the life of Walt Disney.
  • GET A ROOM
    To save money, two couples—one straight, one gay—share a hotel room at a fantasy convention weekend. Everyone’s boundaries get tested—and stretched—in this hilarious, intimate, bedroom-farce-style exploration of open relationships and polyamory. A romantic comedy for modern adults; includes sexual situations and brief nudity.
  • MODERN MAN: A Prehistoric Fable
    Meet Dig, a caveman with motivational issues. He’d rather chill out with some ceremonial herb than hunt for meat, frustrating his super-intelligent adoptive family. But after rebellious Sparky rejects him at her coming-of-age ceremony in favor of a suspicious stranger, Dig realizes he must radically evolve to earn the trust of his tribe and save them from disaster. A visceral, playful look at the evolution...
    Meet Dig, a caveman with motivational issues. He’d rather chill out with some ceremonial herb than hunt for meat, frustrating his super-intelligent adoptive family. But after rebellious Sparky rejects him at her coming-of-age ceremony in favor of a suspicious stranger, Dig realizes he must radically evolve to earn the trust of his tribe and save them from disaster. A visceral, playful look at the evolution of language, spirituality, and morality, “Modern Man” depicts a prehistoric family on the brink of the modern era. (Some sexual content.)
  • DIZGRUNTLED
    Fantasy and reality clash when a movie director, hired to helm a documentary about how cartoons are made, finds himself at the world’s most famous animation studio in the midst of a polarizing labor strike. Suggested by real events at the Disney Studio in 1941, DIZGRUNTLED takes a hard look at the growing pains of creative companies.
  • A PERFECT LIKENESS: CARROLL PHOTOGRAPHS DICKENS
    Reclusive photographer Lewis Carroll invites his hero, celebrity novelist Charles Dickens, to sit for a portrait, tumbling two very different Victorians into a baring of souls beneath a harsh, revealing spotlight.

    "Intelligent and imaginative... the playwright's ability to offer an enormous amount of information in a light and humorous manner...keeps the audience blissfully entertained...
    Reclusive photographer Lewis Carroll invites his hero, celebrity novelist Charles Dickens, to sit for a portrait, tumbling two very different Victorians into a baring of souls beneath a harsh, revealing spotlight.

    "Intelligent and imaginative... the playwright's ability to offer an enormous amount of information in a light and humorous manner...keeps the audience blissfully entertained while they're actually learning plenty... If you are a fan of Carroll and Dickens you will certainly love this play. If you are not, you will be a fan thereafter."
    --Dena Burroughs, Examiner.com

    "You don't have to be interested in 19th century British literature to appreciate the play's odd-couple jousting and emotional poignancy."
    --Deborah Klugman, LA Weekly

    "Beautifully appointed two-hander about the authors of Great Expectations and Alice's Adventures in Wonderland... Perfectly scrumptious."
    --David C. Nichols, LA Times

    "Whether you're a fan of these two literary legends or are entirely new to their work, you'll find A Perfect Likeness to be suffused with the joy, laughter, love of language and the spirit of fun that the characters inspire."
    --South Pasadena Review

    "So lovely and entertaining that you want it to be true."
    --Lynn Felder, Winston-Salem Journal
  • It's Chattin' With Mr. G!
    The Covid-19 Pandemic hasn’t affected the life of Danny Garland, a retired, bohemian artist who’s possessed of a devastatingly wicked wit. But when his blissful day of watching TCM with martinis and joints is shattered by an intrusive neighbor, a wise weed-delivery-guy comes to his rescue. This hilarious one-act is a tribute to the Art Director of the Renaissance Pleasure Faires, whose unbroadcast chat-shows...
    The Covid-19 Pandemic hasn’t affected the life of Danny Garland, a retired, bohemian artist who’s possessed of a devastatingly wicked wit. But when his blissful day of watching TCM with martinis and joints is shattered by an intrusive neighbor, a wise weed-delivery-guy comes to his rescue. This hilarious one-act is a tribute to the Art Director of the Renaissance Pleasure Faires, whose unbroadcast chat-shows were only experienced by a lucky few.