Dan Davies | Media Workshops
and Television Production
Dan has a varied background to say the least. His educational background includes a B.A. in Political Science and English from the University of Wisconsin at La Crosse where he received Political Science Highest Honors.
He has starred in four straight to video films, and produced and hosted five television pilots for national syndication. He has hosted and co-produced over 80 episodes of television seen throughout the Midwest (NBC 26, Fox 11, UPN 32, WB 14, NBC 13, and Pax 55) including a cooking show called, "Sports' Cooking". This unique cooking show was hosted by the late Reggie White's wife Sara White and Dan Davies.
It featured nationally renown sports stars cooking in the kitchen. Guests have included 2-time US Open winner and ESPN golf analyst Andy North, 7-time Olympic Gold Medalist Bonnie Blair, NFL Hall of Famer and member of the NFL's 75th Anniversary Team, Reggie White just to name a few.
Dan's latest cooking show "Now We're Cooking" will be televised nationally on America One Broadcast Network and Ovation TV starting this October. It will also be simultaneously webcast on viddler.com and vmix.com. In 2005 Dan won the Platinum Remi (aka the Spielberg) at the 38th Annual Houston International Film Festival (aka Worldfest).
Past winners at WorldFest have included Steven Spielberg, Oliver Stone, George Lucas, Ang Lee, The Coen Brothers, Robert Rodriguez, Ridley Scott, Spike Lee etc. With over 4300 entries from 37 countries WorldFest is the largest and arguably the most prestigious in independent film.
In 2006 he followed that up with a Silver Remi at WorldFest and won Best Comedy at the 20th Annual Videomaker Magazine Video Contest. This past November 2nd he was featured on the CBS Evening News. Katie Couric and Steve Bassett, creator of the Geico ads, did an almost three minute segment on funny political ads.
Only six funny commercials were featured and two of those six were created by Dan Davies, Robert Lorge and Video Trend Associates. These accolades, awards and their latest TV show "Now We're Cooking" have sparked serious interest from both coasts.
As a matter of fact this past September, Dan hosted a TV segment in NYC. This segment called "I'm Eating My Way Through Manhattan" was featured on "Now We're Cooking" and was filmed and edited by the Associate Producer of ABC's "All My Children".
Last summer he finished his first book, "The 90% Solution" a health and fitness treatise. This book is the first in a series of ten that tackles a different aspect of the truly holistic person.
One of his videos that he scripted and starred in, The Games We Used to Play teaches kids how to be healthy by inspiring them to play the physically active games we used to play. It was critiqued in a very positive fashion in over 250 newspapers nationwide by syndicated columnist and author Bob Greene.
He also won the 1996 American Dream Festival World Comedy Contest sponsored by HBO and English Leather Cologne in Nassau, Bahamas. He has been featured in national commercials for True Value Hardware and ITT Technical Colleges and he has done print modeling for Shopko, Kohl's, Fleet Farm, Tombstone Pizza, Kraft Foods, etc.
He hosted his own syndicated radio show "The Swami" where he played Achmed Benaben (The Swami) from 1998-2001 and he will play the lead role in the movie Seed (in production 2008) and The Mushroom Man (Hombre de Hongo) that will be filmed this late fall/winter in Oaxaca, Mexico. Dan takes great joy in the three F's... his faith, his family, and food. He just wishes beer started with an F!
"Now We're Cooking"
6 Original Weekly Episodes
America One Television Network
www.americaone.com
Broadcast in 38 states & Puerto Rico on 160 major
network and independent television stations
National Broadcast, Cable, & Digital Satellite
30,200,000 Total TV Households
79,200,000 Total Persons
Fridays @ 8:00 AM EST
&
Fridays @ 7:30 PM EST
&
Saturdays @ 11:00 AM EST
Ovation TV
"The Arts Network"
National Cable Distribution
13,500,000 Total TV Households
35,400,000 Total Persons
Fridays @ 7:30 AM EST
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