Dan Goldstein

Dan Goldstein embodies the unique combination of a Ph.D. in business decision making with over 10 years of experience teaching improvisational theater. Dan began creating improvisational theater formats in 1994 with Chicago's SITCOM, which went on to be produced over 13 times in cities from San Francisco to Slovenia, and followed its success with COMMEDIA DELL'HIGH SCHOOL, produced in Chicago, Boston, New York, and Seattle. Dan's teaching experience includes giving workshops at The University of Chicago, Stanford University, Harvard University, Columbia University, as well as at festivals in the US, Germany, The Netherlands, Slovenia, and Bosnia-Herzegovina.

As a creator of Sitcom, Dan won Chicago’s Morton-Murphy Award as has been featured on the cover of Chicago Magazine as well as in The Chicago Tribune, The Chicago Reader, and The Boston Globe. Dan studied and performed improvisation at The Second City Conservatory, The Improv Olympic Theater, The Annoyance Theater, The Upright Citizens Brigade Theater, and The University of Chicago.

As a specialist in the field of decision making, Dan has lectured at Columbia University, The Free University of Berlin, and The University of Chicago in addition to speaking at over 25 conferences in more than a dozen countries. Before moving to New York, Dan was worked as a Research Scientist at the Max Planck Institute in Germany, where at age 26, he was one of the youngest people to hold the title of research scientist. In 1996, he was awarded Germany’s Otto Hahn Medal for achievement in science.