Here's what some of the critics have said about Dan Bianchi's past productions...
"His productions are clearly thought out and good natured in their approach, making them both timely and absorbing at a juncture in our history when political trends make it easy to simply fall into apathetic retreat..."
THE LONDON TIMES
"Great fun! Crack-brained humor! Unending drive!" NY TIMES
"A munificence of soul!" FIGARO
"Audiences will find his work surprisingly in tune with today's disenchanted feeling for government and the people who run it. The humor is broad, the satire obvious and the targets are always in sight and easily reached." NY TIMES
"Mr.Bianchi is, perhaps, the only American director who truly seems to have a grasp of how Brecht's 'Alienation Effect' works. Yet, he knows the difference between dialectic and polemic demagoguery. He understands the audience he has chosen and allows them to reach their own conclusions without haranguing them. That is central to a theater that seeks to stimulate its audience through intellectual channels." VILLAGER
"An intellectual tour-de-force..." VILLAGE VOICE
"Dan Bianchi can both write and direct in the complex, often ironic, epic theater style. His productions are executed with literary intelligence, theatrical sophistication and entertaining flourish. His characters yearn to place their faith in religion, justice, and man's potential humanity to man."
THEATER REVIEW MAGAZINE
"His work shows the guts and brains of a company that ought to last!" NEWSDAY
"As Renaissance man behind the entire operation, Artistic Director Dan Bianchi is also the Director, Author, Lyricist and Set Designer. For his company to have attempted and pulled off a work of this scope, this complexity and length is alone worth commendation...but, on many levels his work can stand against more commercial and better-funded productions, especially, technically." NY STAGE
"I have watched his work grow over the years with considerable delight at Bianchi's sensitivity and talent for using the Epic Style of production. His works are ambitious, literate, intelligent and entertaining. Bianchi has joined Beckett at the periphery of existence to contemplate the future of mankind. I am sure that he has the makings of a major artist." HISTORY OF AMERICAN THEATER, Editor, S. Hart, Phd.
DAN BIANCHI has spent over 30 years in theater and film as an Independent Theatre artist which includes writing, directing, producing, set and lighting design, music and sound design, graphics, PR and whatever else is necessary to keep the ball rolling. He founded RADIOTHEATRE in 2004 and has since produced/ written/directed MADHOUSE; HARDBOILED 1; HARDBOILED 2; WAR OF THE WORLDS 2004 (Nominated 2005 NYIT Award) ; KING KONG 2005; THE PIGMAN OF DELANCEY STREET (Nominated for two 2006 NYIT Awards); THE HAUNTING OF 85 EAST 4th STREET (Nominated for two 2007 NYIT Awards;) THE ISLAND OF DR.MOREAU 2006, KING KONG 2007, THE TIME MACHINE, THE WAR OF THE WORLDS 2007, THE INVISIBLE MAN (Nominated for three 2008 NYIT Awards,) THE ISLAND OF DR.MOREAU 2007 (WINNER of 2008 BEST MUSIC and BEST SOUND DESIGN NYIT AWARDS), KING KONG 2008, THE MOLE PEOPLE, DRACULA'S GUEST, DRACULA,
SUNDAYS WITH POE (ran 12 months Off Broadway, 20 different POE plays), FRANKENSTEIN (Nominated for 2010 DRAMA DESK AWARD Best Sound Design, ran 4 months Off Broadway), THE HAUNTING OF 85 EAST 4th STREET 2010.
He's been founder/Artistic Director of four international theater companies, written and directed over 50 plays and musicals, worked as screenwriter in Hollywood, directed 7 motion pictures with members of the Royal Shakespeare Co., won three-times Best Director Off Broadway, twice The Beckett Prize, the ASCAP Musical Theater Award, Billy Rose Theater Award, the National Writers Guild Screenwriting Award, a MacDowell Fellowship, and a National Humanities Grant. He recently directed a feature THE EVIL KILLERS. He founded and ran VIDEOTHEATRE, NYC's only year round DV-dedicated indie theater. He is also a visual artist whose works have been shown in galleries and museums around the world, including Museum of Modern Art, NYC, MOMA Australia, Brazil, Germany, Museum of Non -Conformism, Russia, etc.
