Dan Fauci is the creator of the following workshops: Mastery of Self Expression, Leadership and Creativity, the Abyss, and Samurai.
Dan founded The Actors Institute, a school for professional actors, in 1975. Within ten years, the Institute grew to include branches in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Seattle,
Vancouver, Austin, Montreal, Toronto, London, Bristol, Paris and several cities in Israel. Dan left the Institute in 1987, branching off into producing. His first productionwas Looking Glass, an Off Broadway production about Lewis Carroll. Dan then partnered with Ted Danson and in two years produced three movies for television: When the Bough Breaks (NBC), We Are The Children (ABC), and Follow Your Heart (which Dan co-wrote for NBC), and created and produced the series Down Home (NBC) starring Judith Ivey.
After four years as an independent producer, he went to work for Paramount Pictures, heading comedy development. Over the next twelve years as Senior Vice President, he produced over 100 comedy pilots, half of which went to series. The most successful was Frasier, which won five Emmys for best comedy. Other shows he developed were Becker, Clueless, Girlfriends, Lateline, and Sister, Sister.
Dan is also an artist who has shown his photographs at Paramount Studios and had his collages displayed at the Gallery Luisotti in Los Angeles. He is currently in a group show at the Shoshana Wayne Gallery in Los Angeles and his work has been seen in group shows all over the world. He is currently working on a book on creativity, a novel, and continues to lead his workshops in Los Angeles and New York. Dan recently Executive Produced and acted in the web series, Whole Day Down, which is screening at the International Television Festival on August 11 at 2pm at the Laemmle Sunset 5.
Dan has been married to his wife, Jeanne, for 30 years and has two daughters: Tai, who is a writer, editor and designer, and Francesca who is an actress living in Nashville.
