Dani Michaeli (born December 12, 1969; age 55) 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.
Dani made a brief return to the show during season 10 as a freelance writer; he had only written the episode "Lost and Found."
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.[1]
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."