Daniel Egan
Specializations: Musical Theater
About: Daniel Egan is a Lecturer in Music, and Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies at Yale. He coordinates the Shen Curriculum for Musical Theater at Yale and teaches courses in the history of the American Musical Theater and the work of Stephen Sondheim. As Coordinator he develops new courses, recruits a world class faculty, and enhances departmental connections to co- and extra-curricular theater offerings on campus and in the professional world beyond Yale. Egan also shepherds the Fridays @ Five master class series and serves as an advisor to sophomores, senior projects in Music and Theater, and to recent graduates entering the field. At Yale, he has served on Yale’s Ad Hoc Arts Advisory Committee, the honors committee in Music, the Metcalfe Prize committee in Theater Studies, and a Curriculum Revision committee in Theater Studies, among other academic activities. In 2016 he spoke as a representative of a changing arts scene at Yale on the AYA Redpath Seminar in Los Angeles. He has also spoken on Reunion Weekends multiple times. Egan was on the roster of speakers for the Metropolitan Opera’s HD in the Schools program and led sessions for their national conference for several years. He has served on the board of Rhinebeck Writer’s Retreat and The Brearley School in NYC. As a graduate student at Yale, Daniel created the first collegiate seminar on the work of Stephen Sondheim and worked as music coordinator for the Yale Repertory Theater under Lloyd Richards. He is currently Academic Coordinator for Road Scholar/Explore New York, a provider of lifelong learning seminars – and a frequent lecturer on opera, music, and theater on these seminars. As a performer, Egan has appeared in opera, theater, concert, and recording venues in all periods and genres of music. He has sung with the New York Philharmonic, New York City Ballet, Manhattan Theater Club, Mark Morris Dance Group, Musica Sacra, New York Virtuoso Singers, and The Lambs Theater, among many others, in addition to a decade in the resident ensemble at New York City Opera. Egan sang on Grammy nominated recordings of Sweeney Todd with the New York Philharmonic and Patti Page’s 50th Anniversary Concert at Carnegie Hall, as well as NYCO’s Emmy-nominated “Live from Lincoln Center” performances of La bohème and Madama Butterfly. Additional credits include the studio recording of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s 1947 Allegro, a concert performance of the Saint-Saens/Ogden Nash “Carnival of the Animals,” Noye’s Fludde (Britten) at Brearley, and Stephen Sondheim’s 80th and 85th Birthday Concerts with the New York Philharmonic. Egan’s training is in music theory: BM summa cum laude, St. Olaf College, MA Eastman School of Music, MPhil., Yale.