About Dan
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Born in a log cabin on the Western Frontier (of Hollywood) Dan Donnelly grew up among the orange groves of the scenic San Fernando Valley, but hauled up stakes and moved North of the Wall for a shot at the glitz and glamour of Canadian show business.
He is the creator and executive producer of Comedy Game Showdown, a live pop-culture panel show and podcast, as well as other shows under the banner of his production company, And a Scotch Egg.
Otherwise you can catch him at shows all over Toronto, because he is not very fast.
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Festivals:
Burbank Comedy Festival (Best of the Fest)
San Diego Comedy Festival
HUMOUR Fest (Québec City)
Finger Lakes Comedy Festival
Clubs:
Absolute Comedy (Toronto)
YukYuks (Toronto)
Flappers Comedy (Burbank)
Jokers Comedy (Toronto)
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Dan produces the following shows through his production company And a Scotch Egg:
Comedy Game Showdown - A live monthly pop-culture panel show and podcast inspired by the many classic panel shows of British television.
Shooting to Kill - A monthly taped standup showcase in which Toronto’s best young comics show off their best material for the camera.
For more info, show recordings, and more, check out the AASE website at www.andascotchegg.com!
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Dan is available for voice work in various media. For inquiries please check the booking page.
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Dan streams classic JRPGs and other fun things on Twitch as ContraryMotion.
Current streaming schedule:
Wednesdays 11pm - 3am EST
Sundays 11pm - 3am EST -
Dan is a professional Italian-English translator and enthusiastic Japanese learner.
He has produced English translations of scholarship, concert programme notes, Italian poetry, and historic/primary sources for clients including academic journals, research grant projects, performing ensembles, and concert venues such as Carnegie Hall.
He also contributed as an English script editor for the Bahamut Lagoon 25th Anniversary Edition and occasionally (badly) translates Japanese games live on Twitch.
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Dan holds a PhD in Historical Musicology from McGill University, where he worked with Julie Cumming and Peter Schubert.
He worked as an instructor at McGill from 2007-2012, teaching courses in music history, appreciation, and basic musicianship.
His dissertation (2015) was entitled Cantar à la venessiana: Venetian-language Polyphony in the Secondo Cinquecento and is available here.
Dan has presented widely on music in the Italian Renaissance at conferences including the Annual Medieval and Renaissance Music Conference, the annual conferences of the American Musicological Society and Renaissance Society of America, and elsewhere.
He is currently retired from academia.
