Danny Burstein is currently playing Luther Billis in the Broadway revival of South Pacific (also Cast recording) at Lincoln Center for which he received a 2008 Outer Critics Circle Award and Tony & 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 (also Cast Recording).
He spent three seasons as an original company member of Tony Randall's National Actors Theater - credits there include: Three Men on a Horse (w/ Jack Klugman & Tony Randall), Saint Joan (w/ Maryann Plunkett & John Neville), (w/ Jon Voight & Tyne Daly), A Little Hotel on the Side (w/ Lynn Redgrave) and The Flowering Peach (w/ Eli Wallach & Anne Jackson). He was also seen on Broadway in A Class Act; Titanic; and Company (also Cast Recording). Off-Broadway: A.R. Gurney's Mrs. Farnsworth opposite Sigourney Weaver and John Lithgow; Psych; All in the Timing; I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change; The Boys From Syracuse; Merrily We Roll Along; Weird Romance; Sail Away; etc. Regional: Harold & Maude, Time & Again, Harmony (Drama-Logue Award). Film/TV: Boardwalk Empire (directed by Martin Scorsese), Transamerica, Duane Incarnate, Deception, Law & Order, Ed, Conviction, Hope & Faith, Absolutely Fabulous, etc. He is the recipient of Inside Broadway's Beacon Award for helping to bring live theater to young audiences and was recently honored with his own Sardi's caricature. Mr. Burstein is on the Artist Committe of the Kennedy Center Honors and received his training at New York's famed 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.
