Daniel Egan
Daniel Egan is a Senior Lecturer in Music, and Theater, Dance, & Performance Studies at Yale, where he teaches courses in the history of the American Musical Theater and the work of Stephen Sondheim. As Coordinator of the Shen Curriculum for Musical Theater, 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 with luminaries from Broadway and serves as an advisor to senior thesis projects in Music and TDPS, and to recent graduates entering the field.
At Yale, Egan serves on the Sudler Prize Selection Committee, and the honors committee in Music, and has served on the Ad Hoc Arts Advisory Committee, the Metcalfe Prize committee, and a Curriculum Revision committee in TDPS, among other academic activities.
As a graduate student at Yale, Daniel created the first collegiate seminar on the work of Stephen Sondheim and served as Music Coordinator for the Yale Repertory Theater under Lloyd Richards. At YRT he collaborated on projects by August Wilson, Athol Fugard, and Dario Fo, among many others.
Egan is a much sought-after speaker on arts topics, with engagements ranging from the Yale Alumni Association Redpath Seminar in Los Angeles to Yale College Reunions and the Metropolitan Opera’s HD in the Schools program and their yearly national conference. Egan has served on the boards of Rhinebeck Writer’s Retreat, The Brearley School in NYC, and currently, the Kurt Weill Foundation. He is 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, Musica Sacra, New York Virtuoso Singers, The Pet Shop Boys, Mark Morris Dance Group, the Shubertiade at the 92nd Street Y, Tanglewood, New York City Ballet, Manhattan Theater Club, 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 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.