Dan Maurer, Vice President & Director of Marketing

Dan Maurer serves as the Vice President and Marketing Director for Maurer Productions OnStage. For nearly 30 years, he has worked in the performing arts in many different capacities including musician, theatre critic, stage manager, marketing director, sound designer, director, co-producer, and actor. Dan is a three-time Perry Award-winner, having been honored with awards from the New Jersey Assocition of Community Theatre for Outstanding Direction of a Play, Oustanding Sound Design, and Outstanding Production of a Play.

While helping the company as a producer and marketing professional, Dan especially likes to mix writing, directing and acting. In 2007, he took part in the Arts YOUniversity Short Play Festival, where he appeared as Harvey, the umpire crew chief, in Judgement Call. He also wrote and directed a short play of his own for the festival called The Road Not Taken. Dan has also appeared on stage in the featured role of Mike Francisco in Like 40’s production of Breaking Legs, and co-starred in the role of David in the award-winning short film Falling Off.

Dan joined Maurer Productions OnStage shortly after it was founded and has co-produced productions of Singin’ in the Rain, The Emperor’s New Clothes, Winnie the Pooh, It’s a Wonderful Life, Lucky Stiff, You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown, The Foreigner, Brighton Beach Memoirs and the award-winning Driving Miss Daisy.

Dan is a member of the New Jersey Association of Community Theatre and travels around the state reviewing community theatre productions for NJACT's Perry Awards. He also serves as member of the Kelsey Theatre Advisory Committee, a cooperative of community theatre companies that produce shows at the Kelsey Theatre on the campus of Mercer County Community College in West Windsor.