Danielle Tarento

Producer/General Manager/Casting Director

Danielle is a freelance producer and casting director. She won Best Producer at the Off West End Awards 2012, was nominated Producer of the Year at the Stage Awards 2015 and was listed as one of the top ten producers of Musical Theatre in 2016 in The Stage. She is co-founder of the Menier Chocolate Factory.

Theatre includes: Benjamin Scheuer’s The Lion (Southwark Playhouse & Arizona Theatre Company); West Side Story, Chicago, Evita, Grease (Ljubljana Festival, Slovenia); the UK première of Dave Malloy’s Preludes (live-stream & Southwark Playhouse – nominated, WhatsOnStage Award for Best Off West End Production 2020); Titanic The Musical (UK & international tours); the UK professional première of Michel Legrand’s Amour (Charing Cross Theatre – winner, Off West End Award for Best New Musical 2020); Vincent River, Le Grand Mort, Songs And Solidarity – A Concert For Those Affected By The Grenfell Tower Fire (Trafalgar Studios); The Grift (Town Hall Hotel, Bethnal Green); the world première of The Elf Who Was Scared Of Christmas, the UK première of Death Takes A Holiday (Charing Cross Theatre); The Woods by David Mamet, Mother Courage And Her Children, Rodger’s & Hammerstein’s Allegro, Gods And Monsters, Three Sisters, Victor/Victoria, Company (Southwark Playhouse); The Color Purple In Concert, Grateful (Cadogan Hall); Ragtime (Charing Cross Theatre – winner, Off West End Award for Best Musical Revival 2017; nominated, WhatsOnStage Awards for Best Musical Revival and Best Off West End Production); Grey Gardens (Southwark Playhouse – winner, Off West End Award for Best New Musical 2017; nominated, WhatsOnStage Award for Best Off West End Production); Titanic (Charing Cross Theatre – winner, West End Wilma Award for Best Off West End Production 2016); Pure Imagination (St James Theatre); Grand Hotel (Southwark Playhouse – winner, Broadway World Award for Best Musical Revival 2015; nominated, WhatsOnStage Award for Best Off West End Production and 6 Off West End Awards including Best Musical Production); The Grand Tour (Finborough Theatre); Man To Man (Park Theatre); My Lifelong Love - An Evening With Georgia Stitt And Friends (Garrick Theatre); Frances Ruffelle - Paris Original (St James Studio); Dogfight (Southwark Playhouse - shortlisted, Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Musical 2014); Titanic (Southwark Playhouse - longlisted, Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Musical 2013; winner, Broadway World UK Award for Best Fringe/Regional Musical, WhatsOnStage Award for Best Off West End Production and 4 Off West End Awards including Best Musical Production); Taboo (Brixton Club House - winner, WhatsOnStage Award for Best Off West End Production 2013); Mack & Mabel (Southwark Playhouse - longlisted, Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Musical 2012; nominated for 13 Broadway World UK Awards and 6 Off West End Awards); The Pitchfork Disney (Arcola Theatre); Burlesque (Jermyn Street Theatre - winner, Off West End Award for Best New Musical 2012); Noël And Gertie (Cockpit Theatre); Parade (Southwark Playhouse - longlisted, Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Musical 2011; nominated, WhatsOnStage Award for Best Musical Revival 2012, Off West End Award for Best Musical Production); Spring Awakening (Rose Theatre, Kingston); Drowning On Dry Land (Jermyn Street Theatre); Legacy Falls (New Players Theatre); Frances Ruffelle: Beneath The Dress (Madame JoJo’s, Edinburgh Festival, Wroclaw Stage Song Review, Poland, Menier Chocolate Factory & Crazy Coqs); Happy Savages (Edinburgh Festival).

As Associate Producer: Smokey Joe’s Café (Landor Theatre); Kurt And Sid (Trafalgar Studios – nominated, WhatsOnStage Award for Best Off West End Production 2009); Side By Side By Sondheim (The Venue); Tamburlaine The Great (Rose Theatre, Bankside).

Alongside her work as a producer and casting director, Danielle also regularly runs Acting Through Song, Repertoire and Audition Technique masterclasses and teaches and directs at several drama schools including ArtsEd, Mountview, Associated Studios, Drama Studio and LAMDA.

Danielle is proud to be a trustee of the National Youth Music Theatre (vice chair) and Mercury Musical Developments.

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