Danny Tesla
- Actor
- Producer
- Director
Danny Tesla has starred in over 3000 live stage show performances around the world. 1000 of those shows has been his own one-man variety show that he created called "The Danny Tesla Show" He has been working in the entertainment industry for over 30 years.
Danny Tesla started performing at the age of 7 as the youngest member of "The Sunshine Singers" performing in shopping centers and theme parks like Dream World. He also worked in Productions with the Australian Ballet Company such as Onegin, Romeo & Juliet, Don Quixote, and Swan Lake. Throughout his school years he produced, directed and performed every month for 2000 of his fellow schoolmates. He studied with the best teachers in New York, London and Sydney in all aspects of performing from singing, acting, and dancing. One of his dancing teachers was award-winning choreographer Dein Perry who created "Tap Dogs" which lead to Dan being one of the Tap dancers in the Fox Searchlight movie "Bootmen" starring Sam Worthington and Adam Garcia. Which meant he was invited to perform with Adam as one of the lead tappers at the Opening Ceremonies of 2000 Olympic Games live in front of an audience of 100,000 people and telecast to 4 billion people worldwide.
He also performed in Productions on the finest cruises ships in the world. Whichever ship he was on its showcast always was voted number 1 in the fleet. He worked on Royal Viking Queen, Star Odyssey, Silver Cloud, P&O Fair Princess, P&O's Artemis, Oriana.
A career highlight for Danny was when he was cast as Eugene in "Grease The Arena Spectacular" Which broke all box office records and still holds the record to this day. He worked alongside Australia's biggest stars like Dannii Minogue and Anthony Warlow and John Farnham. Because of his creative contribution to that production he was asked back into two other productions by the same company to reprise his role. Danny has now performed Grease over 300 times to over a million people around Australia and New Zealand.
Danny Tesla was invited to perform at some corporate events in Singapore in 2003 and since then has performed at over 750 events in Singapore. He decided in 2009 to make Singapore his home and became the Creative Director and founder of "Broadway Production Company Pte Ltd" which not only produced more shows for corporate events but also TV commercials and a Musical call "City Gym The Musical" which was staged at Jubilee Hall in January 2013. Danny wrote the script, music and lyrics to City Gym. He also directed and produced the production as well as starred in it. In 2014 Danny moved to Los Angeles and acted in many productions like HBO's "All the way" starring Brian Cranston and ABC's Grey's Anatomy. That same year he was asked to sing for the soundtrack for a new musical "Tesla The Electrical Spectacle" Inspired by Nikola Tesla's story Dan Thompson made his stage name Danny Tesla and continues to work under that name winning awards like Best Actor in the film "Birthday in a Dark room" portraying Professor Ansel Adams and starring in other films such as "Surface Wounds"
Moving back to his roots in live entertainment Danny Tesla moved to Las Vegas and performed in Evil Dead the Musical for 6 months on the famous Las Vegas Strip and as a regular actor in the No. 1 escape room in the Country (the Basement) for 8 months. In 2017 he continued to pass on his experience by teaching Acting classes regularly for LA casting Showcase in Las Vegas and lending his acting skills to readings of "Shark Attack the Musical" at the Space and regularly singing at the Venetian. In 2018 he is set to play a lead role as Dorian Wilde in the Feature Film "Art of the Dead" starring Tara Reid.
Danny Tesla is an accomplished Actor, Singer and Dancer.
Danny Tesla started performing at the age of 7 as the youngest member of "The Sunshine Singers" performing in shopping centers and theme parks like Dream World. He also worked in Productions with the Australian Ballet Company such as Onegin, Romeo & Juliet, Don Quixote, and Swan Lake. Throughout his school years he produced, directed and performed every month for 2000 of his fellow schoolmates. He studied with the best teachers in New York, London and Sydney in all aspects of performing from singing, acting, and dancing. One of his dancing teachers was award-winning choreographer Dein Perry who created "Tap Dogs" which lead to Dan being one of the Tap dancers in the Fox Searchlight movie "Bootmen" starring Sam Worthington and Adam Garcia. Which meant he was invited to perform with Adam as one of the lead tappers at the Opening Ceremonies of 2000 Olympic Games live in front of an audience of 100,000 people and telecast to 4 billion people worldwide.
He also performed in Productions on the finest cruises ships in the world. Whichever ship he was on its showcast always was voted number 1 in the fleet. He worked on Royal Viking Queen, Star Odyssey, Silver Cloud, P&O Fair Princess, P&O's Artemis, Oriana.
A career highlight for Danny was when he was cast as Eugene in "Grease The Arena Spectacular" Which broke all box office records and still holds the record to this day. He worked alongside Australia's biggest stars like Dannii Minogue and Anthony Warlow and John Farnham. Because of his creative contribution to that production he was asked back into two other productions by the same company to reprise his role. Danny has now performed Grease over 300 times to over a million people around Australia and New Zealand.
Danny Tesla was invited to perform at some corporate events in Singapore in 2003 and since then has performed at over 750 events in Singapore. He decided in 2009 to make Singapore his home and became the Creative Director and founder of "Broadway Production Company Pte Ltd" which not only produced more shows for corporate events but also TV commercials and a Musical call "City Gym The Musical" which was staged at Jubilee Hall in January 2013. Danny wrote the script, music and lyrics to City Gym. He also directed and produced the production as well as starred in it. In 2014 Danny moved to Los Angeles and acted in many productions like HBO's "All the way" starring Brian Cranston and ABC's Grey's Anatomy. That same year he was asked to sing for the soundtrack for a new musical "Tesla The Electrical Spectacle" Inspired by Nikola Tesla's story Dan Thompson made his stage name Danny Tesla and continues to work under that name winning awards like Best Actor in the film "Birthday in a Dark room" portraying Professor Ansel Adams and starring in other films such as "Surface Wounds"
Moving back to his roots in live entertainment Danny Tesla moved to Las Vegas and performed in Evil Dead the Musical for 6 months on the famous Las Vegas Strip and as a regular actor in the No. 1 escape room in the Country (the Basement) for 8 months. In 2017 he continued to pass on his experience by teaching Acting classes regularly for LA casting Showcase in Las Vegas and lending his acting skills to readings of "Shark Attack the Musical" at the Space and regularly singing at the Venetian. In 2018 he is set to play a lead role as Dorian Wilde in the Feature Film "Art of the Dead" starring Tara Reid.
Danny Tesla is an accomplished Actor, Singer and Dancer.
