Dani Fecko is a first-generation Canadian settler of Czech and Slovak descent who lives on the traditional, unceded territories of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.

She is owner of Fascinator Management, an agency and consultancy whose clients contemporary performance practices are informed by their diverse lived experiences. Fascinator consults and coaches internationally and nationally, providing curated connections, network program design, tour and producing guidance and strategic planning.

Dani loves work that challenges her ideas of what is possible, her areas of focus being theater, dance, cabaret and anything that happens in non-traditional ways or spaces. She was a Leadership Fellow with the Association of Performing Arts Professionals from 2016 – 2018 and a Fellow with ISPA from 2012 – 2014.

Dani has served on juries for Creative Scotland, the Canada Council for the Arts, the BC Arts Council and New York’s Creative Capital and she has served on panels in Sweden, Darwin, Montreal, Scotland, Ireland, Vancouver, and Ottawa; she has hosted workshops in Vancouver, Victoria and Calgary.

Dani is a term-lecturer on Creative Entrepreneurship at Simon Fraser University. She trained as a stage manager and worked for multiple companies locally including Theatre Replacement and Neworld Theatre, as well as others across Canada and Europe. She tour-managed across North America, Mexico, and Europe with Rimini Protokoll and in Europe and across Canada with Company 605. She was Managing Producer of Boca del Lupo, and spent four years as Associate Curator at the PuSh Festival. She lives with her piano-playing husband, Angus Kellett, and their fish, Hyfinn as well as many pandemic plants.