Dan Marshall
Member, Advisory Board
Dan Marshall works as a media production, engineering, non-profit development, finance, and commercial/arts/mixed-use redevelopment consultant, and volunteers as a synagogue cantor & with seniors. He serves as the Executive Artistic Director of the Brookline/Cambridge Community Center for the Arts and his part-time dance company FreEMotion/LibrEMoción Repertory Company, and is the leader of a community real estate development group, working to provide affordable housing to all income levels, and to create permanent arts facilities and maker spaces, in conjunction with his non-profit.
Dan heads the development of BCCA's ground-breaking education web and institution, artist, educator, and student management software and website technology, for artist gainful employment and student reach.
A life-long student, performer, choreographer, and teacher of numerous styles of dance and martial arts, Dan has produced, directed, choreographed, and performed for theatre, film, and TV, and has taught for 5 years in the Performing Arts Division of UMass Amherst. His many choreography & dance credits include a Café Latino premiere with his Latin-Jazz FreEMotion/LibreEMoción Repertory Company in collaboration with acclaimed artists from Tango Fever & OPED/Tango Mundo; original choreography (in collaboration with his wife Shira Price) for Acton (Theatre III), Cambridge (MIT Theatre Guild), and Colorado productions of Fiddler on the Roof; Folkloric Waltz choreography & dancing (in collaboration with Shira Price) for Disney's feature film The Finest Hours; Polka choreography & dancing for Netflix's feature film The Polka King; Funk, Freestyle, & Ballroom Fusion choreography for Netflix's TV show The Society (in collaboration with Shira Price); and Hora (traditional Jewish/Israeli) choreography, singing, & dancing for HBO's The Plot Against America.
Dan has has produced, co-produced, and/or directed over 1,000 live events and shows and 11 independent films and TV projects; has appeared in various roles in over 100 major motion pictures and TV shows; and has worked in many different capacities in Film and TV beyond acting, dancing, and choreography, including editor, special effects artist, videographer, writer, musician, and stuntman (to name a few). His 32-year diverse martial arts training extends from traditional and modern styles of Chinese Kung Fu (Wu Shu) to Japanese Judo and Karate. Dan has taught Kung Fu and Cardio Kickboxing to all ages since 1993. In 1998 he joined the Boston Kung Fu Tai Chi Institute, and studied, taught, and competed under the guidance of Sifu Yao Li, earning multiple national and local titles.