Dan Dion

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Daniel James Dion (born December 11, 1970) is an American photographer and comedy producer. He is best known for his location portraiture of comedians, and was the house photographer of the legendary San Francisco venue The Fillmore for twenty years.

Early life

Dion grew up in Kenwood, California. He attended Santa Clara University, where he was the campus comedy director, producing shows such as The Second City, P. J. O'Rourke, and Greg Proops. Upon graduation, he moved to San Francisco to work for political satirist Will Durst at his comedy club, the Holy City Zoo.

Career

In 1993 he was an assistant photographer for the

Crackle, a division of Sony Entertainment. In 2012 he produced the final show at the Purple Onion, when the entire building was sold to a restaurant concern. From there he became a comedy producer for Audible.com, bringing such talents as Lewis Black, Jonathan Katz, and Maria Bamford to the platform and producing live shows for the SF SketchFest. In 2019 he moved to Nashville, TN to become Head of A&R at 800 Pound Gorilla Records, the country's biggest comedy record label. In 2022 he opened an art gallery and photo studio next door to Third Man Records
in Nashville.

Author

In May 2010, Dion's book

satirists
.

He was the photographer for the book Tuesday Tucks Me In, written by Luis Carlos Montalván and Bret Witter and published by

Roaring Brook Press
. It was voted by the editors at Amazon as the "Best Children's Nonfiction Book of 2016". He and Montalván published a sequel, "Tuesday Takes Me There" in 2018.

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