DANIEL FERGUSON HAUGHEY--BIOGRAPHY

Dan Haughey (hoy), Teaching-Artist, Member, Illinois Education Association and Illinois Theatre Association (ITA).  Credentialed in Speech and Theatre Arts.

Dan has a BA in Theatre Arts and a minor in English from Eastern Kentucky University, and an MFA in Theatre from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, with an emphasis in playwriting and play production.  He also attended the Florida State University-Asolo Conservatory for Professional Actor Training.  Dan is an Actor, Singer, Director, Playwright and Educator. He has taught for 25 years, thirteen of those at Black Hawk College (BHC) in Moline, Illinois, where he headed the theatre program, served as Cultural Events Chair, and instructed speech and theatre arts classes.  Also he served two years on the BHC Faculty Senate and in 2010 culminated his full-time tenure at BHC with the distinction of Professor Emeritus.  He has six years’ experience as a professional on stage, in TV, and film and is a former member of Actors’ Equity Association (AEA) and currently the Screen Actors’ Guild (SAG).  In addition to his performance resume that features a long list of the more conventional plays and musicals, Dan has toured his one-person show on Ulysses S. Grant, MR. U. S. GRANT, to schools, museums, national parks and service clubs in eight different states since 1981.  Dan has served as a board member for regional Arts councils, state theatre associations in Tennessee and New Mexico, and on the Illinois Theatre Association Board for over five years, primarily as a University/College Co-Chair.  In 2004 he served as ITA Convention Chair, and in 2005-07 represented ITA as a member of the Illinois Arts Alliance/Foundation, Arts Education Committee, while serving as a past ITA President. He has served as a member of the Association for Theatre in Higher Education.  In 2013-14, he was commissioned as a “Road Scholar” by the Illinois Humanities Council for his Avant Guarde one-person show entitled, EA POE: Edgar Alan Poe’s Imagination! Mr. Haughey has also taught children’s theatre classes and high school theatre. Dan is a native of Ohio.

Dan’s environmental background includes serving as an arboretum caretaker as an extension of his high school biology class and working on farms while growing up in Ohio.  His father introduced him to camping, boating and fishing during his elementary school years.  To fulfill one of his liberal arts requirements in college, Dan studied Plant Science, and he developed lawn maintenance and gardening skills during the summers.  During 2013-14, Mr. Haughey served for four seasons as Director of Operations and Exhibits for the Quad City Botanical Center in Rock Island, Illinois and continues to volunteer there on the Railroad Garden Advisory Committee.  He is a member of the Illinois Education Association and the National Education Association.  

Contact Information: 2205 Barnard Court, Moline, Illinois, 61265
(309) 236-2772 c   danfhaughey@gmail.com   www.danact3.com