Dani Michaeli

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Person

Credits

Dani Michaeli
General Information
Birth:	December 12, 1969 (age 54) Rochester, New York, U.S.
Gender:	Male
Series Information
Credits:	Writer
Years:	2005 - 2010; 2015; 2016 - 2017

Dani Michaeli (born December 12, 1969; age 54) is a former SpongeBob SquarePants crew member. He revealed on his Twitter that he had left SpongeBob after season 8 to work on the Hub show The Aquabats Super Show as the story editor.

According to a tweet from Vincent Waller, Dani made a brief return to the show during season 10 as a freelance writer; he had only written the episode "Lost and Found."

Trivia

Dani Michaeli's face in SpongeBob SquarePants.

• His face can be seen on a snail named "Dani" in the episode "Sanctuary!"
• His favorite episode to work on was "Picture Day."
• His favorite character to write for is Patrick Star.
• He got his job on SpongeBob after pitching the idea for "Bummer Vacation" at a writer's retreat, which ended up being the first episode he would write for the show.
• He was nominated for an Annie Award along with Sean Charmatz, Nate Cash, Luke Brookshier, and Paul Tibbitt for Patrick's Staycation.
• He revieved multiple Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Animated Program (for Programming Less Than One Hour) for Bummer Vacation and The Inmates of Summer and for Outstanding Short-format Animated Program for "Dear Vikings."

External links

• Dani's LinkedIn page

References

Awards and nominations for SpongeBob SquarePants V • E Annie Awards Outstanding Individual Achievement for Voice Acting by a Female Performer in an Animated Television Production Voice actors: Mary Jo Catlett as Mrs. Puff (in "No Free Rides," 2001) Outstanding Individual Achievement for Voice Acting by a Male Performer in an Animated Television Production Voice actors: Tom Kenny as SpongeBob SquarePants (in "Wormy," 2001) Outstanding Individual Achievement for a Song in an Animated Production Songwriters: Peter Straus and Paul Tibbitt for "The Very First Christmas" (in "Christmas Who?," 2001) Directing in an Animated Feature Production Directors: Stephen Hillenburg (for The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie, 2004) Music in an Animated Feature Production Composers: Gregor F. Narholz (for The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie, 2004) Best Writing in an Animated Television Production Writers: C.H. Greenblatt, Paul Tibbitt, Mike Bell, and Tim Hill (for "Fear of a Krabby Patty," 2005) • Dani Michaeli, Sean Charmatz, Nate Cash, Luke Brookshier, and Paul Tibbitt (for "Patrick's Staycation," 2011) Best Voice Acting in an Animated Television Production Voice actors: Tom Kenny as SpongeBob SquarePants (in "Spy Buddies," 2007) • Tom Kenny as SpongeBob SquarePants (in "Truth or Square," 2009) Direction in an Animated Television Production Directors: Alan Smart (for "Penny Foolish," 2008) • Mark Caballero and Seamus Walsh (for "It's a SpongeBob Christmas!," 2012) Best Home Entertainment Production DVDs: SpongeBob vs. The Big One (2009) Music in a Television Production Composers: Jeremy Wakefield, Sage Guyton, Nicolas Carr, and Tuck Tucker (2010) Character Animation in an Animated Television or other Broadcast Venue Production Animators: Dan Driscoll and Savelen Forrest (for "It's a SpongeBob Christmas!," 2012) Animated Effects in an Animated Production Animators: Brice Mallier, Paul Buckley, Brent Droog, Alex Whyte, and Jonathan Freisler (for The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water, 2015) Voice Acting in an Animated Feature Production Voice Actors: Tom Kenny as SpongeBob SquarePants (for The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water, 2015) Best Animated Special Production Episodes: "SpongeBob's Big Birthday Blowout" (2019) Emmy Awards Primetime Emmy Awards Outstanding Animated Program (for Programming Less Than One Hour) Nominees: Sean Dempsey, Derek Drymon, Juli Murphy Hashiguchi, Sam Henderson, Stephen Hillenburg, Jay Lender, Mark O'Hare, Kent Osborne, Alan Smart, Paul Tibbitt, Tom Yasumi (for "New Student Starfish"/"Clams," 2003) • Derek Drymon, Juli Murphy Hashiguchi, Stephen Hillenburg, Kent Osborne, Andrew Overtoom, Alan Smart, Paul Tibbitt (for "Ugh," 2004) • Mike Bell, C.H. Greenblatt, Stephen Hillenburg, Alan Smart, Paul Tibbitt, Vincent Waller, Tom Yasumi (for "Fear of a Krabby Patty"/"Shell of a Man," 2005) • Casey Alexander, Luke Brookshier, Stephen Hillenburg, Tom King, Dani Michaeli, Chris Mitchell, Andrew Overtoom, Alan Smart, Paul Tibbitt and Tom Yasumi (for "Bummer Vacation"/"Wigstruck," 2007) • Steven Banks, Charlie Bean, Stephen Hillenburg, Dani Michaeli, Chris Reccardi, Alan Smart, Aaron Springer, Paul Tibbitt, Tom Yasumi (for "The Inmates of Summer"/"The Two Faces of Squidward," 2008) Outstanding Short-format Animated Program Nominees: Dina Buteyn, Stephen Hillenburg, Dani Michaeli, Alan Smart, Aaron Springer, Paul Tibbitt and Tom Yasumi (for "Dear Vikings," 2009) • Luke Brookshier, Dina Buteyn, Nate Cash, Stephen Hillenburg, Doug Lawrence, Andrew Overtoom, Alan Smart and Paul Tibbitt (for "That Sinking Feeling," 2011) • Marc Ceccarelli, Stephen Hillenburg, Kyle McCulloch, Jennie Monica, Jack Pendarvis, Alan Smart, Paul Tibbitt, Vincent Waller, Tom Yasumi (for "Company Picnic," 2016) • Luke Brookshier, Marc Ceccarelli, Stephen Hillenburg, Jennie Monica, Adam Paloian, Alan Smart, Vincent Waller, Tom Yasumi (for "Plankton Paranoia," 2019) Daytime Emmy Awards Outstanding Directing in an Animated Program Directors: Andrew Overtoom, Andrea Romano, Alan Smart and Tom Yasumi (2010) • Casey Alexander, Luke Brookshier, Nate Cash, Zeus Cervas, Sean Charmatz, Andrew Overtoom, Andrea Romano, Alan Smart, Aaron Springer, Paul Tibbitt, Vincent Waller and Tom Yasumi (2012) Outstanding Special Class Animated Program Animators: Dina Buteyn, Stephen Hillenburg and Paul Tibbitt (2010) Outstanding Children's Animated Program Nominees: Stephen Hillenburg, Jennie Monica Hammond and Paul Tibbitt (2012) • Stephen Hillenburg, Marc Ceccarelli, Vincent Waller and Jennie Monica (2018) Outstanding Performer in an Animated Program Voice actors: Rodger Bumpass as Squidward Tentacles (2012) • Tom Kenny as SpongeBob SquarePants (2018) • Tom Kenny as SpongeBob SquarePants (2020) • Tom Kenny as SpongeBob SquarePants (2021) Outstanding Sound Editing – Animation Nominees: Todd Brodie, Nicolas Carr, Mishelle Fordham, Chris Gresham, Matt Hall, Jeffrey Hutchins, James Lifton, Paulette Lifton, D.J. Lynch, Aran Tanchum and Kimberlee Vanek (2012) • Mishelle Fordham, Vincent Guisetti, Jeffrey Hutchins, James Lifton, Paulette Lifton, D.J. Lynch, Wes Otis, Monique Reymond and Aran Tanchum (2013) • Devon Bowman, Nicolas Carr, Mishelle Fordham, Jeff Hutchins, Aran Tanchum and Vincent Guisetti (2014) Outstanding Sound Mixing for an Animated Program Nominees: D.J. Lynch, Justin Brinsfield, Ryan Greene, Manny Grijalva, Jeff Hutchins and Aran Tanchum (2020) Outstanding Voice Directing for an Animated Series Nominees: Tom Kenny (2021) Children's and Family Emmy Awards Outstanding Voice Performance in an Animated Program Voice actors: Tom Kenny as SpongeBob SquarePants (2022) • Tom Kenny as SpongeBob SquarePants (2023) Individual Achievement in Animation - Storyboard Nominees: Benjamin Arcand (for "SpongeBob's Road to Christmas," 2022)