Daniel Yurgaitis
Director/Choreographer/SDC
February 2013
Regional Theatres
The Attic Theatre, Detroit (AEA)
The Robber Bridegroom
Working
The Club
March of the Falsettos*
Strider: The Story of a Horse
Marry Me A Little*
Piaf*
Fool For Love*
The 1940's Radio Hour
Holiday Cabaret: Expectations**
Comin' of Age***
Theatre in Old Town, San Diego (AEA Guest Artists)
The Front Page
I Do! I Do!
To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday
The USO Hollywood Christmas Caravan**
Theatre Building, Occhipinti Prod., Chicago (AEA)
March of the Falsettos (Chicago Premiere)
Invisible Theatre, Tucson AZ (AEA)
All in the Timing (Arizona Premiere)
Mercury Theatre Company, Tucson AZ
Pushing the Envelope***
North Coast Repertory Theatre,
Solana Beach CA
Rumors
Marry Me A Little
The 1940's Radio Hour
Eastern Standard (San Diego Premiere)
The Good Doctor
Love Letters on Blue Paper (S.D. Premiere)
Macomb Center for the Performing Arts,
Mt. Clemens MI (AEA)
Nunsense
Civic Light Opera Companies
Musical Theatre Southwest, Albuquerque NM
Sister Amnesia’s Country Western Nunsense Jamboree (New Mexico Premiere)
Anything Goes
The Roar of the Greasepaint- The Smell of the Crowd
The Wizard of Oz
Peter Pan
The Producers
Summer Theatres
Little Theatre-On-The-Square,
Sullivan IL (AEA)
Little Shop of Horrors
A Chorus Line
Fiddler on the Roof
The Sound of Music
Best Little Whorehouse in Texas
Moonlight Amphitheatre, Vista CA (AEA Guest Artists)
Mame
The Musical Comedy Murders of 1940
Straw Hat Players, Moorhead MN
Tartuffe
Timber Lake Playhouse, Mt. Carroll IL
(AEA Guest Artists)
Baby
Big River
The Robber Bridegroom
Nunsense
Nunsense II
Jesus Christ Superstar
Fiddler on the Roof
Steel Magnolias
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
Phantom
Forever Plaid
The Will Rogers Follies
Tibbits Summer Theatre, Coldwater MI
The Robber Bridegroom
Evita
Quilters
Oklahoma!
Nunsense
Funny Girl
South Pacific
The 1940’s Radio Hour
The Miracle Worker
Best Little Whorehouse in Texas
The Diary of Anne Frank
The Rainmaker
My Fair Lady
LaMoure Summer Musical Theatre, LaMoure ND
Something’s Afoot
Dracula- the Musical
Post Playhouse, Ft. Robinson NE
Trapped by a Treacherous Twin
Forever Plaid
Little Shop of Horrors
A Grand Night for Singing
Godspell
They Came From Mars and Landed Outside
the Farndale Avenue Church Hall
in Time for the Townswomen’s
Guild’s Coffee Morning (US Premiere)
Northern Fort Playhouse, Lake City SD
Sylvia
Dames at Sea
Secrets Every Smart Traveler Should Know
You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown
The Fantasticks
The Marvelous Wonderettes
Cole Porter’s You Never Know
Dinner Theatres
True Grist Dinner Theatre, Homer MI
Talley's Folly*
13 Rue De L'Amour
Two by Two
Relatively Speaking
An Almost Perfect Person
Chapter Two
Rodgers and Hart
Angel Street
My! Oh MI!*
The Frogs*
The Rainmaker
Brigadoon
The Learned Ladies
Annie Deathtrap
Tintypes*
California Suite
Grease
Side by Side by Sondheim
Change Partners**
The Sunshine Boys
On Golden Pond*
The Robber Bridegroom
Fiddler on the Roof
South Pacific
Tribute
A Chorus Line
The Norman Conquests*:
Table Manners,
Living Together,
Country Dinner Playhouse, Denver (AEA)
Annie Get Your Gun
New Vic Supper Theatre, Flint MI
She Loves Me
Circa '21 Dinner Theatre, Rock Island IL
The King and I
Oklahoma!
Cornwell’s Dinner Theatre, Marshall MI
Fiddler on the Roof
Gaslight Dinner Theatre, Tulsa OK
The Robber Bridegroom
Round and Round the Garden
University/College
University of Arizona, Tucson
Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean,
Jimmy Dean
Hey There Good Times:
The Music of Cy Coleman
Tintypes
Something Wonderful: 50 Years of
Rodgers and Hammerstein
A Little Hotel On The Side
No Song More Pleasing: The Musical
Theatre of Sheldon Harnick
False Admissions
Sunday in the Park with George
Dragons (Arizona Premiere)
The Molière Comedies:
The School for Husbands/The Imaginary Cuckold
Macomb Community College, Mt. Clemens MI
Kiss Me Kate
Hello, Dolly!
Bernstein on Broadway
The Music Man
Camelot
DePaul University, Chicago
The Roar of the Greasepaint- The Smell of the Crowd
You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown
Company
I Do! I Do!
Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti MI
Change Partners**
Cameron University, Lawton OK
Guys and Dolls
The Miracle Worker
St. Mary's College, Notre Dame IN
West Side Story
Northern State University, Aberdeen SD
Cabaret
An Ideal Husband
Art (South Dakota Premiere)
A Little Night Music
Shakespeare’s R&J (South Dakota Premiere)
Fuddy Meers (South Dakota Premiere)
How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
The Bungler (South Dakota Premiere)
The Laramie Project
110 in the Shade
A Doll’s House
The Guys
The Rocky Horror Show
The Cripple of Inishman
The Syringa Tree
Disney’s Beauty and the Beast
Twentieth Century
Urinetown
Stop Kiss
The Mikado
Miss Saigon
Tick Tick Boom
Fiddler on the Roof
Eurydice
Forbidden Broadway
The Light in the Piazza
The Three Musketeers
Altar Boyz
The Drowsy Chaperone
Love’s Labours Lost
th
The 25 Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
The Phantom of the Opera
The Liar
Xanadu
The Laramie Project- 10 Years Later
Legally Blonde
Spring Awakening
Legler Benbough Theatre, San Diego
Goblin Market (San Diego Premiere)
Note: *Michigan Premieres, **World Premiere (Book Writer), ***World Premiere
Awards
Director of the Year Detroit News Drama Critics Awards (1985-86 season)
Best Director Detroit Free Press for the Attic Theatre productions of
The 1940's Radio Hour (1985-86 season)
Working (1981-82 season)
The Robber Bridegroom (1980-81 season)
Best Choreographer Decatur (IL) Herald and Review Critics Awards for the Little Theatre-on-the-Square
production of: The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (1987)
Best Production Detroit Free Press Ten Best List for the Attic Theatre productions of:
The 1940's Radio Hour (1985-86 season) Strider (1983-84 season)
Working (1981-82 season)
San Diego Union-Tribune Ten Best List for North Coast Repertory Theatre
production of: Rumors (1993)
Arizona Daily Star Ten Best List for Arizona Repertory Theatre productions of:
Sunday in the Park with George (1995) A Little Hotel on the Side (1994)
Arizona Daily Star Ten Best List for Invisible Theatre production of:
All in the Timing (1997)
Training
United States International University, San Diego, M.F.A. Theatre/Directing, 1991