Selected credits*
WEST END/NATIONAL TOURS, REGIONAL & INTERNATIONAL THEATRE
Dane has coached principal performers in:
Frozen (West End & Int’l Tour), Wicked (West End, UK, US & Int’l Tours), Newsies (West End), Waitress (West End & UK Tour), Hamilton (West End & UK Tour), Everybody’s Talking About Jamie (West End, UK Tour & Los Angeles), Mandela (West End), &Juliet (Manchester, West End & Broadway), Six (West End, UK Tour & Int’l), Jesus Christ Superstar (UK Tours), The Producers (Manchester), Cabaret (West End), Book of Mormon (West End & UK Tour), Dreamgirls (UK Tour), The Drifters Girl (West End), Mamma Mia (West End, UK & Int’l Tour), Matilda (West End), Sunny Afternoon (West End), Shout (UK Tour), Wuthering Heights (National Theatre & US Tour), Little Women (London & Film), Tell Me On a Sunday (UK Tour), Motown (West End), Rock of Ages (West End), Moulin Rouge (West End & Australia), The Wind in the Willows (West End & Film), Saturday Night Fever (UK Tour), Lift (London), The Lion (London), Les Miserables (West End & UK Tour), Phantom of the Opera (West End), Tina the Musical (West End & Australia), Heathers (West End & UK Tour), Mary Poppins (West End), Fiddler on the Roof (Menier), Get Up Stand Up (West End), The Third Man (Menier), Kinky Boots (West End & Off-Broadway), The Addams Family (UK Tour), The Cher Show (UK Tour), Chess in Concert (London), Hex (National Theatre), Legally Blonde (Regents Park), 42 Balloons (London), Miss Saigon (Crucible & Australia), Dirty Dancing (West End), Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (UK Tour), Pretty Woman (UK Tour & Madrid), The Last Five Years (Int’l Tour), The Seagull (National Theatre), Blues for an Alabama Sky (National Theatre), Sister Act (UK Tour & Australia), Ain’t Too Proud (West End), MJ the Musical (West End), Grease (UK Tour), The Baker’s Wife (Menier), Oliver (Chichester & West End), Starlight Express (Germany), Mean Girls (West End), The Devil Wears Prada (West End), Come from Away (UK Tour), Your Lie in April (West End), Hercules (West End), Titanique (West End), The Last Five Years (Barn Theatre), 13 Going on 30 (Manchester), Freaky Friday (Manchester), Operation Mincemeat (West End)
TV/FILM
One Love (Paramount), Matilda (Netflix), The Woman King (Entertainment One/TriStar), Rupaul’s Drag Race UK Series 2 ,4 & 5 (World of Wonder), The Voice UK (ITV), The One Show (BBC), The Eurovision Song Contest, Wind in the Willows (Riverbank Pictures), Little Women the Musical (Aria Entertainment & Broadway HD), The National Lottery’s Big Night at the Musicals (BBC), Hazbin Hotel (Amazon)
MUSIC INDUSTRY
Becky Hill, Ella Eyre, Hurts, Lola Young, Everything Everything, JP Cooper, Incognito, Sigala, Delphic, The Whip, Embrace, Busted, Laurel, Tigress, Twisted Wheel, Jonny Brown, Baiana, Fizzy Blood, The Mend, Beth Orton, Roachford, John Parr, Courtney Love, WuLyf, Salt Ashes, Izo Fitzroy, Cskts,, Barb Jungr, Goldfrapp, Kaeto, Bar Italia, Remember Monday, Kae Tempest, Claire Uchima, Hinako Omori, Nina Cristante, Bar Italia, Amber Van Day
Dane has also been an advisor for TC-Helicon products including live vocal processing modules, pedals, monitors and microphones.
ACTORS & COMICS
Lashana Lynch, Emelia Clarke, Samira Whiley, Peter Kay, Ben Radcliffe, Lena Hall, Amber Davies, Sooz Kempner, Amir Talai, Jason Manford, Claire Sweeney, Joanne Clifton, Denise Welch, Lucie Jones, David Hunter, Oliver Tompsett, Lauren Drew, Emma Williams, Liam Tamne, Melanie LaBarrie, Melissa Jaques, Aisha Jawando, Samantha Barks, Emily Lane, Lauren Samuels, Davina DeCampo, Danny Beard, Kelly Agbowu, Rhianne Louise-McClausky, Matt Blaker, Rhys Whitfield, Lily De-La-Hay, Laura Harrison, Tanisha Spring, Lauren Byrne, Holly-Anne Hull, Adam Davidson, Iz Hesketh, Andy Nyman, Preston Nyman, Michael Ahomka-Lindsay, Eve Shanu-Wilson, Chelsea Halfpenny, Jessica Lee, Seann Miley Moore, Zheng Xi Yong, Michelle Visage, Jena Pandya, Rebecca Lock, Simbi Akande, Billy Luke Nevers, Martha Kirby, Holly Sumpton, Madeline Mantock, Georgina Onuorah, Shona White, Sally Frith, Natalie Dunne, Emily Langham, Rhiannon Chesterman, Suzie McAdam, Steph Parry, Guy Woolf, Lulu Mae-Peers, Sara Poyzer, Tsemaye Bob-Egbe, Matthew Jeans, Sean Carey, Casey Donovan, Alinta Chidzey, Georgina Castle, Hayden Tee, Jessica Daley, Brandon Lee Sears, Jenna Lee James, Niamh Perry, Sophie Simnett, Tasha Barnes, Ian McIntosh, Lucy May Barker, Michael O’Reilly, Grace Galloway, Harriet Watson, Luke Street, Antony Lawrence, Honey Joseph, Sandra Marvin, Daisy Wood Davis, Nic Myers, Caitlin Tipping, Emma Mullen, Tegan Bannister, Ruva Ngwenya, Declan Bennett, Oli Higginson, Tommy Dorfman, Harry Giubileo, Victoria Ward, Gabriel Vick, Milly Zero, Kibong Tanji, Char Burnett, Kelly O’Brien, Hannah Lowther, Roshani Abbey
PUBLICATIONS & AWARDS
Dane has written chapters for TC Helicon’s Ultimate Guide to Singing (2016), Bloomsbury’s The Singer-Songwriter Handbook (2017), Training Contemporary Commercial Singers (Compton 2020), the 2nd edition of Compton Publishing's seminal The Voice Clinic Handbook (2018), and Troubadour's Sound Advice: The Ultimate Guide to a Healthy and Successful Career in Music (2021)
Dane has also contributed to magazines and newspapers including The Stage, Men’s Fitness, Zest, The Telegraph, DJ Booth, Voice Council Magazine, City Life.
In 2021 Dane received the Angel Award from WhatsOnStage for his services to the theatre industry during the COVID-19 Pandemic.
CHARITY & CLINICAL WORK
Dane is a past President (2015-16) and Director (2005-2014) of the British Voice Association. He was Vocal Advisor (2016-2019) to the Medical Committee of the British Association of Performing Arts Medicine (BAPAM) where he pioneered the creation of competencies for Vocal Rehabilitation Coaches working in multidisciplinary voice clinics in the UK. He was also a member of the Musicians Health and Wellbeing group for Help Musicians UK. Dane was Vocal Rehabilitation Coach at University Hospital South Manchester (2006-2018) where he helped create the first NHS Elite Vocal Performer Clinic in northern England. He was also Vocal Rehabilitation Coach in the Performer Clinic at Guys Hospital, London.
EDUCATIONAL APPOINTMENTS
Academic appointments include Associate Professor of Vocal Coaching and Rehabilitation at Leeds College of Music (now Leeds Conservatoire), where he was also Principal Lecturer of Artistry and Performance (2007-17), both posts were newly created for Dane’s unique skill-sets. Other academic posts include Teaching Fellow in Pop Voice at Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts (2003-6), Senior Lecturer in Pop Voice at the Royal Northern College of Music (2008-10), and Lecturer in Voice and Acting at University of Salford (2001-03). Dane now works exclusively in private practice but is happy to present workshops and masterclasses at reputable institutions internationally.
*client confidentiality is assured in medical cases and elsewhere when requested
