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“Helmer Danny Schmitz directs his cast to begin over the top and rocket skywards from there….”
  	VARIETY                                                       http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117934249.html?categoryid=1265&cs=1

SCREEN

Unfamiliar Territory (Director, Producer, Writer) Independent Short Film. Copyright 2007 by Danny Schmitz, Wayne Wilderson & Judy Heneghan (14 min.)

Rags (Director,

Producer, Writer) Independent Short Film. Copyright 2006 by Danny Schmitz (10 Minutes)

I’m Sure (Writer) Novel Copyright 2007 by Danny Schmitz

COOK-OFF! (Associate Producer) Feature Film, Cameron Productions

YOU! (Associate Producer)TelevIsion Pilot, FOX

PROFESSIONAL

THEATER &

PERFORMANCE

Bryant Lake Theater(Founder, Artistic Director) Minneapolis

Bad Seed (Director) Buzzworks Theater Company; Lounge Theatre, Hollywood

Bad Seed (Director, Producer) Theater 911; Hudson, Tamarind, St. Genesius, HBO Workspace, Hollywood; Bryant Lake, Theater Garage, Cedar Riverside, Minneapolis

Come Back Little Sheba (Sheba-Valley Porn Edition)(Director) Buzzworks Theater Company; Whitefire, North Hollywood

Martini & Olive (Director)Hudson, Hollywood

Oh Well (Director, Producer, writer) 52nd St. Theater, New York, NY; Tamarind, The Blank Living Room Series, Hollywood. Copyright 2001 by Danny Schmitz, Steve Alden & Michael Sottile

The Children’s Hour (Director) The Blank Living Room Series, Hollywood

The Bryant Lake Amateur Hour (Director, Host) Bryant Lake Theater, Minneapolis

Temp Trilogy (Director, Writer, Producer) Bryant Lake Theater, Minneapolis

SKETCH & IMPROV

Peterson Park (Director, Writer, Producer) Bryant Lake Theater, Minneapolis

Fazor 1000 (Director, Writer, Producer) Bryant Lake Theater, Minneapolis

New World Odor (Director, Writer) Every Mother’s Nightmare; Paramount, Minneapolis

The Unusual Activity Tour (Director, Writer)Every Mother’s Nightmare; Cape Cod

ComedySportz (Director) Various Clubs & Colleges, Minnesota

TheaterSportz (Director, Producer) Various Clubs & College

The Riot Act (Director, Writer, Producer) Ha Ha Club, Minneapolis

City Champs Comedy Theater (Director, Writer, Producer) City Parks, Minneapolis

THEME PARK

Animal Planet Live (Director, Writer, Producer) Universal Studios Hollywood

Chipmunk Adventure, Chipmunks Meet Frankenstein,Chipmunk’s Christmas (Director, Writer, Producer) Universal Studios Hollywood

Blues Clues(Director, Writer, Producer) Universal Studios Hollywood

Charlie’s Angels Street Show (Director, Writer, Producer) Universal Studios Hollywood

Undercover Brother Street Show (Director, Writer, Producer) Universal Studios Hollywood

Hot Set (Director, Writer, Producer) Universal Studios Hollywood

Denver Street Stunt Show(Director, Producer) Universal Studios Hollywood

Holiday Christmas Parade (Director, Producer) Universal Studios Hollywood

Street Entertainment (Director, Producer) Universal Studios Hollywood

Large Scale Marquee Events (Director, Producer) Universal Studios Hollywood

Halloween Horror Nights (Director, Producer) Universal Studios Hollywood

Atmosphere Entertainment (Head of Program, Head of Casting) Universal Studios Hollywood

“...Danny Schmitz, the directorial mastermind behind the production… Pedal to the metal camp…a giddy showcase...”
 	LA TIMES - RECOMMENDED                         http://www.calendarlive.com/stage/cl-et-badseed27jul27,0,1140375.story?coll=cl-stage
“Schmitz’s ensemble leaves sanity in the dust…the audience is kept laughing to the risk of asphyxiation.”
LAWEEKLY – GO!                                           http://www.laweekly.com/stage/theater/theater-reviews-zorro-in-hell-the-idiot-box-bad-seed-and-more/16862/
“You imagine these scenes played straight, and you're sort of grateful for the parody, and for Schmitz's freewheeling direction.”
	LAWEEKLY - GO!                   http://www.dannyschmitz.comDirector_files/ShebaWeekly.jpgshapeimage_15_link_0
“Schmitz turns Anderson’s play into comic madness…”
HOLLYWOOD INDEPENDENT                       Director_files/LAIndependent.jpg
“Schmitz displays a knack for inventive irreverence and mischievous surprises…”
DRAMALOGUE                                               Director_files/Dramalogue.jpg
“I can’t remember when saw such a delightfully godawful lounge act. And that’s exactly how creators Grant Richey and Judy Heneghan, and Director, Danny Schmitz would have it...you just haven’t seen it this riotously over the top.”
LA WEEKLY - GO!                                  Director_files/mando.jpg
“Hilarious camp revival…”
LA TIMES – BEST OF THE WEEKEND          Director_files/LATimes3.tif
“A pretty darn riotous campfest of major proportions… It’s hard to recall an unabashed romp so full of slaughtered sacred cows… enough coming out of left field to keep audiences on their toes or falling off their seats…what a nice and nasty treat…”
 	BACKSTAGE – CRITIC’S PICK                      http://www.backstage.com/bso/news_reviews/la/review_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003617047
“A six-foot man playing the title 8-year-old murderess is just the start of the campy reversals perpetrated by Theater 911 to turn Maxwell Anderson’s stilted, psychobabble-laden1957 script into nonstop hilarity.”                                          
	LA TIMES – CRITIC’S CHOICE                      Director_files/LATimes2.jpg
“This is high camp at its best…”
	LA READER – CRITIC’S CHOICE                  Director_files/LAReader1.tif
“The entire cast finds moments of uproarious humor…”
	LAWEEKLY – PICK OF THE WEEK               Director_files/LAWeekly4.tif
“Each one of the actors has the soul of the character. They are the character. Their approach is real. And the guy who plays me — he got me.” 
PATTY McCORMACK                                     http://lastheplace.com/2007/07/25/buzzwork-theater-companys-bad-seed-cultivates-good-time/
“I have never--ever--heard so much hysterical, uncontrolled laughing and guffawing. Until last night, I assumed “rolling in the aisles” was merely a turn of phrase. Apparently not.”
HOLLYWOODPSYCHOTHERAPIST.COM     http://www.hollywoodpsychotherapist.com/JULY2007.html
“…Within five minutes of the play’s opening I was giggling. By the show’s end, my sides hurt…”
GAY AND LESBIAN TIMES                            Director_files/Gay%26LesbianTimes.jpg
“You’ll never see a funnier ‘Bad Seed’ than this.”
	DRAMALOGUE                                               Director_files/Dramalogue_1.jpg
“One of the most riotous plays to hit local stages…”
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“A hysterical sendup of a wonderfully bad play”
GAZE MAGAZINE                                           Director_files/Gaze2.jpg
AWARD: BEST COMEDY ENSEMBLE
         LAWEEKLY            Director_files/LAWeekly3.jpg
“The term ‘underground comedy’ barely scratches the surface of the outrageous going-on in Peterson Park.”
	TWIN CITIES READER                            Director_files/petersonpark.jpg
“Bold and wildly original...”
	THE MINNESOTA DAILY    Director_files/mndaily.jpg

DIRECTOR, WRITER & PRODUCER CREDITS

SEE IT!Director_files/Rags.mov
SEE IT!Director_files/unfamiliarterritoy_300kbps.mov
READ IT!Writer.html