Dale Oprandy
At the tender age of 10, Dale became a professional magician and escape artist. Performing was his passion and means which enabled him the financial success to pursue a professional career in the entertainment business.
Turning professional at age 15, he launched his career on such television shows as The NBC Today Show with Tom Brokaw, ABC World News Tonight and The Steve Edwards Show, to name a few. Dale was a dare devil attraction act throughout the United States at race tracks, state fairs, and as an opening act for several recording artists. In 1978, Dale was accepted to the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute in New York City to study acting and theatre, where he would eventually study with Lee Strasberg himself. While living in New York he went to work on many independent film productions, and worked such jobs as grip, scenic artist, producer, and stunt coordinator.
As Dale started raising his own family, he slowly retired from performing and focused his skills on directing, consulting and producing magic productions and segments for television, film, music videos, as well as theatrical productions. Dale has been a long time friend of Director/Producer Joey Travolta, having lived in the old neighborhood in New Jersey together. Joey has been a big inspiration, guiding Dale throughout his career from the time he was 15 years old.
Over the years, Dale has acted as well as co-produced several of Joey's film productions and over the past seven years Dale has also become the Executive Artistic Director for the company Joey Travolta founded entitled "Inclusion Films". Two years ago Dale moved to Bakersfield, California where he now runs the Inclusion Films workshop for adults with developmental disabilities, preparing these young adults for jobs in the motion picture industry both in production as well as acting.
