Danny Hoskins

Danny Hoskins is an actor, director, teacher and playwright, originally from the Rochester area, who has been working nationally and internationally for the past 10 years.  He has served as Interim Director of Theatre at Elmira College, taught acting and voice at the University of South Carolina, developed and directed original works for young actors at the Alliance Theatre Company, and co-founded the South Carolina-based company, Pineapple Productions (PP).  He has toured nationally with his one-man adaptation of Hamlet and internationally, through England and Romania, with PP's inaugural production of Moose Mating.  His children's play, The Year Santa Forgot Christmas, served as the opening production of the Elmira College Children's Theatre, and his short script, The Saint of Amity, was selected for both Geva Theatre and Writers and Books' Two Pages/Two Voices competition.  As an actor, his regional credits include: Death by Joyce, Hartford Stage Company; Crimes of the Heart, A Christmas Carol and Shakespeare's R & J, The Alliance Theatre Company; Moose Mating, Sibiu International Theatre Festival; King Lear and Hay Fever, Theatre South Carolina; The Hamlet Project, Trustus Theatre; Little Shop of Horrors, St. Croix Festival Theatre; The Fantasticks, Kennesaw Stage Company, and locally at Blackfriars Theatre (Epic Proportions); and CenterStage, (One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest).  Mr. Hoskins holds an MFA from the University of South Carolina.