Danny Tesla

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About Danny Tesla

Danny Tesla has starred in over live stage show performances around the world. of those shows has been his own one-man variety show that he created called “THE DAN THOMPSON SHOW” ( before his stage name of Danny Tesla) He has been working in the entertainment industry for over 30 years. He started performing at the age of 7 as the youngest member of “The Sunshine Singers” performing in shopping centres and theme parks like Dream World. He also worked in Productions with the Australian Ballet Company such as Onegin, Romeo & Juliet, Don Quixote, and Swan Lake. One of his dancing teachers was award-winning choreographer Dein Perry who created “Tap Dogs” which led to Dan being one of the Tap dancers in the Fox Searchlight movie “BOOTMEN” starring Sam Worthington and Adam Garcia. Which meant he was also invited to perform with Adam as one of the lead tappers at the Opening Ceremonies of Olympic Games live in front of an audience of people and telecast to 4 billion people worldwide. A career highlight for Danny was when he was cast as Eugene in “GREASE The Arena Spectacular”. Which broke all box office records in Australia. And still holds the record to this day. He worked along side Australia’s biggest stars like, Anthony Warlow, John Farnham and Dannii Minogue. Because of his creative contribution to that production he was asked back into two other productions by the same company to reprise his role. He has now performed GREASE over 300 times to over a million people around Australia and New Zealand. Danny was invited to perform at some corporate events in Singapore in 2003, since then has performed at over 750 events. In 2009 he based himself in Singapore and produced a stage show called "CITY GYM The Musical” which was opened at Jubilee Hall in 2013. Danny is planning to shoot a movie he's written in Las Vegas 2019