Parrish Danesh
Parrish Danesh plays Billy Flynn in Chicago for Gypsy Playhouse. His previous credits include Brad Majors for Fort Myers Theatre in The Rocky Horror Show, director and choreographer Zack in A Chorus Line, Gomez Addams in The Addams Family musical, Teen Angel & Johnny Casino in Grease (March 2022), Ghost of Christmas Past in A Christmas Carol the Musical (December 2021) and Reverend Shaw Moore in Footloose the Musical (September 2021). At Gulfshore Ballet, he was a Party Scene Guest in The Nutcracker for four COVID-interrupted years (December 2017, 2018, 2019 & 2021) and again in 2022.
Robin Dawn 
directed Danesh in Footloose, and recalls his audition. “[W]hen Parrish came in, he’d never auditioned for a show. Totally blew us away. We’re like, ‘Where have you been hiding? You kept this voice and this acting all to yourself?’ So he might be new but he has a great future ahead in this business of theater.
Originally from Chicago, Illinois, Danesh grew up loving musical theater and watched as many productions as he could over the years. He moved to Florida and married his college sweetheart. They now have two awesome kids, Nikita and Parrish Jr., who are “also big into the 
performing arts.”
Danesh has a strong dance background. He trained with Bruce Akioka at Aki’s Dance Studio and has been featured in various ballroom dance showcases and spotlight events between 2018 and the present. For Addams Family, he teamed with his co-star Paola Cifuentes (Morticia) to choreograph the Tango de Amor sequence that closes the show.
His vocal training comes compliments of Billy Gollner at Billy Gollner Vocal Academy (bgvocals.com).
April 26, 2022; revised April 4, 2023.
About the Author
Tom Hall is both an amateur artist and aspiring novelist who writes art quest thrillers. He is in the final stages of completing his debut novel titled "Art Detective," a story that fictionalizes the discovery of the fabled billion-dollar Impressionist collection of Parisian art dealer Josse Bernheim-Jeune, thought by many to have perished during World War II when the collection's hiding place, Castle de Rastignac in southern France, was destroyed by the Wehrmacht in reprisal for attacks made by members of the Resistance operating in the area. A former tax attorney, Tom holds a bachelor's degree as well as both a juris doctorate and masters of laws in taxation from the University of Florida. Tom lives in Estero, Florida with his fiancee, Connie, and their four cats.