Danny Duncan, a native of San Francisco’s Fillmore District, is a celebrated director, choreographer, playwright, composer, and educator. At age seventeen, he founded the Duncan Company of Performing Artists, with whom he choreographed and danced in Afro-Haitian ballets that toured the West Coast for seven years. From the late 1960s to early 1990s, Duncan wrote, composed, directed, choreographed, and performed in dozens of musical theatre productions. He found instant success when his first musical, Uhuruh, was picked up for an Off-Broadway run at New York City Center in the Winter of 1970 after a celebrated San Francisco run. Another triumph came with his contemporary opera Billie’s Song, for which he served as composer, lyricist, director, and choreographer. The production won six Bay Area Critic Circle Awards, including Best Musical of 1983. In the Spring of 1991, Theatreworks Silicon Valley premiered his powerful pop opera Go Down Garvey, based on the life of famed Black Nationalist Marcus Garvey. He has also enjoyed an extensive career as a teaching artist and youth theatre director, which has been his priority since the mid-'90s. He held longtime teaching and/or directing positions at Ruth Asawa San Francisco School of the Arts, Oakland School of the Arts, Balboa High School, Glen Park Elementary, the Marsh Youth Theatre, and dozens more. In 2002, Duncan helped found the San Francisco Arts Education Project’s musical theater company, the Players, and he still directs for the company every year.