Danny Burstein
Danny Burstein recently played Luther Billis in the Broadway revival of South Pacific (also Cast recording) at Lincoln Center for which he received a 2008 Outer Critics Circle Award and Tony Drama Desk Award nominations. Danny was nominated for a 2006 Tony Award for the role of Aldolpho in the original Broadway production of The Drowsy Chaperone (also Cast Recording). He spent three seasons as an original company member of Tony Randall's National Actors Theater - credits there include: Three Men On A Horse (w/ Jack Klugman Tony Randall), Saint Joan (w/ Maryann Plunkett John Neville), THE SEAGULL (w/ Jon Voight Tyne Daly), A Little Hotel On The Side (w/ Lynn Redgrave) and The Flowering Peach (w/ Eli Wallach Anne Jackson). He was also seen on Broadway in A Class Act ; Titanic ; and Company (also Cast Recording). Off-Broadway: the world premiere of A.R. Gurney's Mrs. Farnsworth (opposite Sigourney Weaver John Lithgow) at the Flea; the world premiere of Psych at Playwrights Horizons; I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change (also Cast Recording) at the Westside; and the revival of Sondheim's Merrily We Roll Along (also Cast Recording) at the York.
Singing engagements have taken him from Good Morning America, to the Rainbow Room, to Shea Stadium. Television appearances include playing Lolly Steinman in HBO's Boardwalk pire (Martin Scorsese, dir.); Martin on the BBC-TV's hit series Absolutely Fabulous ; Law Order ; Conviction ; Third Watch ; Law Order: Special Victims Unit; Ed ; Law Order: Criminal Intent ; Hope Faith ; Another World ; All My Children; As The World Turns as well as performing on the 2006 and 2008 Tony Awards and countless television radio commercials.
He can be heard on several hit video games including Grand Theft Auto 4 ; Neverwinter Knights Ii, Manhunt Ii and he is the voice of Darius Fontaine in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. He is the voice of the Latin chameleon, Fernando, in the Rankin/Bass animated holiday film, Santa Baby! (also Soundtrack). He can be heard singing in the Disney animated film, Hunchback Of Notre Dame: Deux and the Robert Smigel cartoon, Torboto, for Satrurday Night Live.
He can be seen in the feature film, Duane Incarnate opposite Kristin Johnston (Tribeca, Boston Deauville Film Festivals); Transamerica, opposite Felicity Huffman (Tribeca, Berlin Cannes Film Festivals) and opposite Ewan McGregor in Deception. Other recordings: Dear Edwina (Studio Cast Recording); Allegro (Studio Cast Recording); Jerome Kern's Leave It To Jane (recorded in London at Abbey Road Studios); Sondheim At The Movies, Lost In Boston Iv, Unsung Musicals III and many others. He has written directed numerous concerts for soprano, Rebecca Luker, around the country and, most notably, at both Lincoln Center and the Kennedy Center. He proudly served as emcee for the highly-regarded New Voices Collective at Symphony Space for three years. He is the proud recipient of Inside Broadway's Beacon Award for helping to bring live theater to young audiences and was honored with his own Sardi's caricature in 2009. Mr. Burstein is on the Artist Committe of the Kennedy Center Honors and received his training at New York's famed H.S. of Performing Arts, the Moscow Art Theater, Queens College (BA) and the University of California, San Diego (MFA). He has two sons, Alexander and Zachary, and lives in NYC with his wife, actress, Rebecca Luker.