Daniel Wessels

Script adaptation specialist | Eight years and counting of turning ordinary translations into meaningful, engaging dialogue | Firm believer that dubbing scripts should be given the same care as native-language scripts.

Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

About

For the last six years I've been marrying my love of words and my fascination with music in the form of unflinching music reviews for South Africa's leading independent music website, Texx and the City. The name I've built for myself is based around an honesty others are hesitant to dabble in embellished with flowery language aimed at creating a feel of what I'm writing about. When I'm not humbling musicians I head up a team of script editors at Blended Audio that lie at the forefront of cultural exchange. Taking foreign-language tv shows and movies and adapting them for English speaking audiences we open up new worlds, new insights, that might otherwise have been inaccessible.

Experience

  • Blended Audio (8 yrs 4 mos)
    • Lead script adapter
      Mar 2025 - Present · 1 yr 4 mos

    • Head of Scriptwriting
      Feb 2023 - Present · 3 yrs 5 mos

    • Scriptwriter
      Mar 2018 - Jul 2023 · 5 yrs 5 mos

  • Texx and the City (8 yrs)
    • Music Critic
      Oct 2018 - Present · 7 yrs 9 mos

    • Freelance Contributor
      Jul 2018 - Present · 8 yrs