Daniel Kuttner

Dan Kuttner was born of German immigrants. His father was a musician, a Cantor in a Jewish Temple and an orchestra conductor. His mother gave lectures about the Holocaust. When Dan was 14, his family moved from Johnstown, Pennsylvania to Omaha, Nebraska. When he graduated from Westside High School, he went to Austin, Texas, to get his bachelor's degree at the school where his distant uncle, Siegfried Kuttner, had taught theater. Dan was involved in still photography until his Navy career, where he took cinematography classes at the Navy's photo/cinema school in Pensacola, Florida. After his Navy stint, he continued photography and moved to Los Angeles, where he did actor/actress headshots. He teamed up with actress Billie Perkins, who encouraged him to write several screenplays and TV episodes. To date the only one adopted was an episode of "WKRP in Cincinnati" - "WKRP Gets a Computer". The show was cancelled soon after, so the episode never aired. Dan moved to Texas, where he got into computers, mostly the TV-friendly Amiga. He combined computers and TV by producing a TV series "Virtual Theater" which used live action and animation to produce "Twilight Zone" type stories. He was noticed by some independent producers, and edited some feature films and TV shows, directed a philosophy show called "The Free Mind", directed two Libertarian political TV shows, and was invovled in other video and film projects and scripts. He moved back to San Diego after several failed ventures, and lives there now, working on a way to revive "Virtual Theater" on the internet. He remains single, but is keeping his options open.