I trained at the prestigious Academy of Recorded Arts (ALRA) in London, 

achieving a 1st in Acting. 

There I honed skills that have become invaluable in my later work like:

 how to concisely analyse scripts, 

build believable characters,

& look after my body and voice 

It also happened to be where I fell in love with voice & voiceover work. 

I loved the detail of the microphone, how creative you can be with proximity and breath, and even that spacey feeling you got from a (sometimes slightly musty) soundproofed room!

I've since been fortunate to perform on stages all over the world, from the highlands of Scotland to Hong Kong. I even popped up looking pretty sweaty in a Mike Leigh movie.

View my acting cv here.

To be more specific: Live Musician. 

I spent my youth playing various instruments in wind, jazz and rock bands. Teenage Dan wanted to have a go at them all...near enough. And there was a time towards the end of school when I nearly pivoted into Music instead of Acting. 

But the music never went away, it's tenacious like that. I always kept practising, playing in bands, eventually discovering that there was such a mysterious thing as an Actor Musician.

Performing with an audience can be incredibly thrilling, it can also be remarkably tender and intimate. What it does need is absolute commitment and assurance, and the wherewithal to take risks. It requires you to leave everything out there on the stage for a room full of strangers. It's also addictive.

Not every voiceover session is the same, it requires that leap of faith to think out of the box and dare to create something really special. 

Live music never pays to be safe, and neither does voiceover.