Dann Saxton is a two-time Emmy® Award-winning director and producer working across documentary, music, and immersive media.

He created and directed the documentary series Life Lessons for Playboy.com and directed the global interview series DISCO Conversations for music industry platform DISCO. Across his career he has conducted hundreds of interviews with artists, executives, and cultural figures, including Lou Adler, Larry King, Lemmy Kilmister, Cheech Marin, Steve Aoki, and Bill Burr. His first Emmy® came in 2014 for his work with CBS, his second came in 2021 for Outstanding Digital Innovation, as producer of holographic interviews during the NBA Finals on TNT and ESPN, a project with AT&T and DNE.

In 2014 he co-founded VRLIVE, creating immersive video and spatial experiences with artists including U2, Coldplay, Radiohead, Justin Bieber, Demi Lovato, and many more. Including the live 360 broadcast of Slash from Guns 'N Roses,  the world's first live-streamed major concert in Virtual Reality in January 2015. VRLIVE also developed Universal Music Group's immersive content distribution platform, VRTGO, and co-produced Hyundai's Super Bowl LI commercial, which Dann discussed on a panel at the Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity with director Peter Berg and Hyundai CMO, Dean Evans. 

His work also extends into fully immersive and explorable digital environments, and directing volumetric video captures of performances that are deployed inside these virtual worlds. This includes producing CYBR, a social platform for virtual music events which was awarded an Epic MegaGrant from Epic Games.

In his earlier days, Dann spent eight years on the management team at The Roxy on the Sunset Strip in Hollywood, producing every technical detail of performances by artists from Selena Gomez and Ariana Grande to U2, Weezer, and Red Hot Chili Peppers. He was also the lead singer and songwriter of Los Angeles rock bands Butane and Kill The Complex, who toured nationally, including Warped Tour and SXSW, with music placed on NBC, ABC, MTV, VH1, Bravo, and in films like Godzilla (2014) and more.