Dan Froot & Company: Arms Around America

Dan Froot is an award-winning producer, composer, choreographer, writer, saxophonist,

dancer, actor, and director. Froot’s work has toured since 1983 and been presented by leading art centers across the U.S., Europe, Africa, and South America. Awards include a Bessie (New York Dance & Performance Award), a City of Los Angeles Artist Fellowship, and a Foundation for Jewish Culture Playwriting Fellowship. Froot has worked with Dan Hurlin, Yoshiko Chuma, Ping Chong, David Dorfman, Mabou Mines, Ralph Lemon, Cornerstone Theater Company, and Victoria Marks, among others. He is Research Professor at UCLA’s Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance.

Froot is founder of Dan Froot & Company (DF&Co), a theater troupe comprised of award-winning actors, known for their collaborative approach to theater-making, and for engaging deeply with communities and partners, putting art at the center of civic discourse. Selected past DF&Co works include, Pang!, a triptych of audio dramas about hunger in America, Who’s Hungry, a series of adult puppet plays about individuals living with food insecurity in Los Angeles, and Shlammer, a vaudevillian Jewish gangster farce.