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Danny was on Broadway in Bartlett Sher’s
Golden
Boy and in 2012 revival of Follies
playing Buddy Plummer (Grammy Award
nomination,
Astaire Award nomination, Tony Award nomination
and won both the Drama Desk and Outer Critics
Circle Awards). Other Broadway credits: the Taxi
Driver in the musical adaptation of Pedro
Almodovar’s Women on the Verge of a Nervous
Breakdown; Luther Billis in South Pacific
(2008 Outer Critics Circle Award and Tony and
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. Three seasons as an
original company member of Tony Randall’s
National
Actors Theater: Three Men on a Horse,
Saint Joan,The Seagull, A Little Hotel on the Side
and Broadway:
A Class Act; Titanic; and Company.
Off-Broadway: Matt Friedman in Talley’s Folly
(Lortel Award nomination); A.R. Gurney’s
Mrs. Farnsworth ; Psych; I Love You…
;
the revival of Sondheim's Merrily We Roll Along;
All in the Timing; Alan Menken & David
Spencer’s Weird Romance; The Rothschilds
and Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh;The United
Way; A Class Act; the Ira Gershwin
Centennial and Sail Away; and
Du
Barry Was a Lady, Li’l Abner and Other credits: Follies;
The National Tour of Grease; Showboat; The
Music Man and Funny Girl; Our Country’s
Good; The Homecoming; The Drowsy Chaperone
(Ovation Award nomination); Barry Manilow’s
Harmony (Drama-Logue Award) and
Macbeth; Henry Kreiger and Bill Russell’s
Everything’s Ducky; The Mission Home;
Shenandoah;
Fiddler…; Peter Pan; Harold & Maude ; narrator
for Mendelssohn’s A Midsummer Night’s
Dream;
Time and Again. Sang at: Good Morning
America, the Rainbow Room, Shea Stadium. TV:
Lolly
Steinman in HBO’s “Boardwalk Empire;” Martin on
“Absolutely Fabulous;” guest starred on “Law &
Order;” “Louie;” “Conviction;” “Third Watch;” “Law &
Order: Special Victims Unit;” “Ed;” “Law & Order:
Criminal Intent;” “Hope & Faith;” “Another World;”
“All
My Children;” “As the World Turns” and
performances
at the 2006, 2008 & 2012 Tony Awards. Voiceover:
Grand Theft Auto 4; Neverwinter Knights II,
Manhunt II and the voice of Darius Fontaine in
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas; voice of
the Latin chameleon, Fernando, in Santa Baby!;
Hunchback of Notre Dame: Deux; and the
Robert Smigel cartoon, Torboto, for
“Saturday Night Live.” Film: Trust, Greed, Bullets
and Bourbon; Affluenza; Mikshake (Sundance);
Construction; Nor’Easter; Duane Incarnate
(Tribeca, Boston & Deauville Film Festivals);
Transamerica; Deception. Recordings:
Dear
Edwina; Sweet Little Devil; Sweet Bye and Bye;
Allegro; Kitty’s Kisses; Jerome Kern’s
Leave
it to Jane; Sondheim at the Movies, Lost in Boston
IV,
Unsung Musicals III and more. Wrote and
directed concerts for soprano, Rebecca Luker. He
proudly served as emcee for the New Voices
Collective at Symphony Space for ten 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 proudly serves on the Artists
Committe for the Kennedy Center Honors and
received his training at New York's 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.
Updated: April 2013
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