Danny Mydlack comes to Towson University after more than fifteen years as an independent media producer in New York and Hollywood. His credits include writing, graphic and content development for the first Windows and Apple Macintosh platforms, both in the education and business software markets (Danny was one of the first 50 people to work with the then-secret first Macintosh – 128k of RAM!) In the daytime Danny developed presentation and promotional video for Nickelodeon TV as well as Scholastic Publishing and Goldman Sachs. At night, Danny wrote and performed/produced Off Broadway winning a number of grants and awards, touring this country and Europe, opening at Radio City Music Hall and was featured on an MTV pilot. Web searches still bring up long-lost references to his accordion-playing, multimedia antics.
Danny returned to graduate school, earning his MFA at the University of California San Diego while serving in U.S./ Mexican border relief efforts culminating in hosting a blue ribbon U.S. Congressional visit including then-House Majority Leader Dick Gephardt, and congressman David Bonior among others as well as appearing before an investigative panel of the U.S. Government Accountability Office. Danny’s project and film “A Town Sign for Maclovio Rojas” was cited in the Wall Street Journal that made the town and its story an international news item.
While at Towson, Danny has completed a feature length documentary “Voices from the New American Schoolhouse” that has received international recognition, has won festival awards in the U.S. and Canada and has been screened widely on four continents as well as receiving over 59,000 views on the web. His more recent documentary on revolutionary blind children’s mobility trainer, “Little Long Canes” has served as a centerpiece for efforts by the National Federation for the Blind and their campaign to change public perceptions about the capabilities of blind children in the world.
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