Dan Pacheco

Mr. Dan Pacheco is the Director of Performing Arts at St. Margaret’s. He joined the Tartan community in 2018 as a Middle School and Upper School Theatre teacher and director. Some of his past professional acting credits include playing Boq in the Broadway musical, Wicked and playing Aladdin in Disney's Aladdin for many years. He has toured internationally, and his experience in the entertainment industry spans theatre, film, TV, radio and print.

Dan is passionate about arts education and the role that the Arts play in educating hearts and minds. Before coming to St. Margaret’s, he worked in the educational theater department for Kaiser Permanente. In this role, he developed programming for at-risk students to use drama and music as tools for social-emotional learning. As an adjunct educator at NYU, he specialized in integrating arts into public school curriculum. He also developed arts programming for The Dalton School and LeAp (Learning through Expanded Arts Programs) and served as Director of Creative Arts and Athletics, a summer program at the Convent of the Sacred Heart. His recent work with Dramatic Results, an arts education agency in Los Angeles, was awarded a grant from the U.S. Department of Education which would provide visual and performing arts education to 9,000 students by combining the efforts of underutilized community organizations to provide a scaffolded STEAM program for at-risk gifted and talented students from Title I schools in Long Beach, California.

He holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts and a Master of Business Administration from California State University, Monterey Bay. He oversees all aspects of performing arts—theater, choral music, band, orchestra, dance, and cinematic arts. He also teaches Upper School theater classes and directs Upper School plays and musicals.