Biography - Daniel A. Doss

Daniel Doss is a native of Kansas City, Missouri
and graduated from the UMKC Conservatory of
Music with a degree in Music Composition. Daniel
has been studying and performing at the piano since
the second grade.

In addition to performing and teaching piano,
Daniel has been involved with professional musical
theatre in Kansas City since 2002 as musical
director / conductor / band leader / rehearsal pianist
and keyboardist.

Daniel has performed with and/or conducted for
every major theater in Kansas City, including:

- Kansas City Repertory Theatre
- New Theatre Restaurant
- American Heartland Theatre
- The Coterie Theatre
- Starlight Theatre
- The Unicorn Theatre
- Egads Theatre Company / Eubank Productions
- Musical Theatre Heritage
- Metropolitan Ensemble Theatre
- Theater League

From 2006-2008, Daniel started his own theatre
production company, Thin Air Theatrics,
performing at the Just Off Broadway Theatre,
Union Station's H&R Block City Stage, and Quality
Hill Playhouse. As producer, director, and musical
director, Daniel produced five critically acclaimed
productions on a non-union professional theatre
level, including Jason Robert Brown's Songs For A
New World, I Love You, You're Perfect, Now
Change!, and a sold out run of Jekyll & Hyde: The
Musical.

As composer, Daniel has been commissioned 4
times to write original musical scores for Kansas
City theatre productions, including Brecht's Mother
Courage and Aeschylus' Oresteia Trilogy. In 2006,
Daniel completed his first full length original
musical Pulling It Off with collaborator Dan
DeMott. Currently, Daniel is collaborating with
local talent on several new musical theatre projects
in the works.

Daniel spends his days as the accompanist for F.L.
Schlagle High School in Kansas City, Kansas where
his choir won a national Gospel Music competition
in 2007 and continues to perform across the nation.