Dan Pardo is a NYC-based music director, pianist, arranger, and educator, having made his Broadway debut as assistant conductor and keyboardist for Amazing Grace at the Nederlander Theatre. He also music-directed the acclaimed Netflix special, John Mulaney and the Sack Lunch Bunch.
Off-Broadway credits include I Spy a Spy (St. Clements), The Office! A Musical Parody (Jerry Orbach), Found (Atlantic), Rothschild and Sons (York), Soot and Spit (New Ohio) and Skippyjon Jones: Snow What? with TheatreworksUSA at the Lucille Lortel. Other NYC credits include workshop productions of Come From Away, Mythic (as Persephone Unplugged), How to Write Dirty Books for Fun and Profit, Discovery, On Rosen Street, Marco Polo, Never Grimm, Stepchild, and The Oliver Experiment, along with numerous concerts at the Laurie Beechman Theater, 54 Below, Chelsea Table + Stage, and The Green Room 42. Regional favorites include Company (starring Aaron Tveit) at Barrington Stage, Little Shop of Horrors at Ogunquit, How to Succeed at The 5th Avenue, Fun Home at Weston Playhouse, The Fantasticks at the Cape Playhouse, and A Connecticut Christmas Carol at Goodspeed Musicals, where Dan was on staff for three seasons. Dan is active in the NYC piano bar scene, playing regularly at Marie's Crisis, The Townhouse, Brandy's, and the historic Stonewall Inn. When he's not working, Dan enjoys playing games, watching movies, and singing sea chanteys with his 30-Button Anglo Concertina. Since 2014, he has been happily married to the talented Chrissy Pardo. They have a weekly residency at the Edison Hotel and in 2025, they debuted their first cabaret together, Dreams Don't Come True in Pennsylvania Dan authored political limericks during the first Trump Administration, and produced a limited web series; please find them at the links, below. |