2022 Professional Theatre SCP & GPS Level 1 & 2

• Development Director, Westcoast Black Theatre Troupe, Sarasota
• Coordinator, High Desert Partnership
• Owner, DFG Appraisals, LLC
• Board Member, University of Florida College of Design Construction and Planning Historic Preservation, VP Membership, Association of Fundraising Professionals SW Florida Chapter, Board Member Sarasota Tiger Bay Club

• Member, Board of Directors of the Sarasota Tiger Bay Club
• Member of Association of Fundraising Professionals, AFP FL, Southwest Chapter
• Chair of the Sarasota County Historic Preservation Board, a quasi-judicial advisory board appointed by the Sarasota Board of County Commissioner

• Director of the Center for Fine & Performing Arts, University of West Florida; 
• Director of the Interdisciplinary Humanities/Arts Administration program at University of West Florida
• 25 years of Arts Administration Experience including serving as the Managing Director of Pig Iron Theatre Company, an international touring company based in Philadelphia, PA; Marketing Director of Dad's Garage Theatre Company in Atlanta, GA & 7 years as a Talent Agent in New York City.  
• M.S. Administration (Public Administration), University of West Florida; B.F.A., Theatre (Production Management), Auburn University

• President, Players by the Sea, Jacksonville, Florida
• He serves as the Vice President of Operations for the Rhythm of Gospel Awards, the nations’ largest independent Gospel Award show.
• He has directed and produced several large-scale shows. He made his directorial debut with Players by the Sea’s critically acclaimed production of “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.”

Daniel Eilola is the Producing Artistic Director of Lake Worth Playhouse, a nonprofit theater in Palm Beach County, Florida. Since joining the organization in 2012, he has served in Development and as Black Box Series Producing Director before assuming his current role in 2019. He oversees artistic programming, production planning, and the hiring and coordination of creative teams across mainstage productions, the Stonzek Studio’s Black Box series, as well as special events and new works initiatives. 

His experience encompasses season selection, budgeting, casting, artist development, and the practical demands of producing theater within a nonprofit organization. He also supports new-work development through the Playhouse’s Square One program.

Eilola’s artistic approach emphasizes curiosity, a breadth of perspectives, and theater’s capacity to engage actors and audiences with relevant issues. He brings to grant review a working producer’s understanding of artistic ambition, organizational capacity, and service to the community.

• Founder/Executive Producer/Artistic Director - Herman LeVern Jones TheatreSouth, Inc., Miami, FL Resident Theatre Company 2020-2022
• Founder/Executive Producer/Artistic Director -TheatreSouth Atlanta, Inc., Atlanta, GA 
• Adjunct Professor, Florida Memorial University, Miami Gardens, FL - Presently
• Co-Creator, Special Assistant to the Producer, and National Board member (1989) - National Black Theatre Festival, NC  
• Previously, Artistic Director, Madam C.J. Walker Urban Life Center (Indianapolis, IN), the Grant Avenue Community Center’s Kean-Brown Center Stage (Plainfield, NJ), and Co-Founder and Artistic Director Cary Players, Inc. (Cary, NC)
• He has taught at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, The Ohio State University, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, University of Rochester, NY, Yale University, Morris Brown College and Georgia State University (Atlanta, GA).
• Board Member, New Federal Theatre, NYC and has served on the Ohio Arts Council, Massachusetts Cultural Arts Council, City of Atlanta Cultural Arts Council and as a panelist for the South Carolina Arts Council
• B.A. in English and African American Theatre (1981), North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 
• M.F.A. in Acting (1983), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill