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"Glenn is an energetic, expressive performer, [and] funny as hell."
--NYTheatre.com Bio Daniel is an educator and theater artist who received his MFA in Theatre from Sarah Lawrence College, where he won The Stanley and Evelyn Lipkin Prize for Playwriting. He received his bachelor's in Dramatic Literature summa cum laude from NYU. Daniel has taught high school English, including both AP courses, and Drama, winning awards both for his teaching and his stage productions. His play Romeo and Juliet Revised is available from YouthPLAYS. |
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In Georgia he worked for years with Performing Arts North, the non-profit educational theater company he co-founded in his hometown. Daniel broadened the company's mission to include pieces like The Vagina Monologues (a premiere in that particular suburb) as well as experimental plays from local writers. He has also taught for multiple summers at the Georgia Governor's Honors Program and assisted acting classes at SUNY - Westchester Community College.
In 2011, he was an associate artist in residence at Atlantic Center for the Arts, studying solo performance with Heather Woodbury. He performed his full length solo play, My Date With Troy Davis, at the 2012 New York International Fringe Festival, earning glowing reviews from Backstage and NYTheatre.com.
Daniel's one act and full length plays have been performed in various theaters around the country. His play There Was and There Wasn't (an old Iraqi folktale), was a main stage production at Tisch School of the Arts. His play swingset/moon was featured at the 2012 Telluride Playwrights Festival, and the ongoing series No More Plays About White People was twice featured at Sarah Lawrence.
His play White Kwanzaa has received multiple productions, and a second solo, HOW TO NOT GET TURNED INTO A TREE, is featured in the 2013 Contemporary Performance Almanac and has played several festivals. Daniel's latest solo, Portraits of People I've Never Slept With, made the rounds among Brooklyn hipsters before a hit run at the Atlanta Fringe Festival.
Along with poet/performer Jamie Agnello, Daniel created the theatrical genre of tragedy game show. The first episode, I’ve Got a Secret, premiered at Dixon Place, while Those Krazy Kennedys was first performed at Douglass Street Music Collective. The latest episode, Woody vs. Mia vs. Gwyneth vs. Coldplay, had a showing at Dixon Place and a run in Atlanta.
Daniel has written theater reviews for Show Business Weekly, and wrote film reviews for years at film-forward.com.
As a performer, Daniel has been seen at La MaMa, Dixon Place, The Brick, American Dance Institute, Theatre Row, Theatre for the New City, and The New Ohio, among other venues.
Education
M.F.A. in Theater, 2013
Sarah Lawrence College
B.A. in Dramatic Literature, summa cum laude, 2007
College of Arts and Science
New York University, New York, NY
Director:
For a sample, here are photos of Othello, produced in August 2009 by The Shakespeare Studio. The photos are by Corky Yarbro, Red Clay Photography
In 2011, he was an associate artist in residence at Atlantic Center for the Arts, studying solo performance with Heather Woodbury. He performed his full length solo play, My Date With Troy Davis, at the 2012 New York International Fringe Festival, earning glowing reviews from Backstage and NYTheatre.com.
Daniel's one act and full length plays have been performed in various theaters around the country. His play There Was and There Wasn't (an old Iraqi folktale), was a main stage production at Tisch School of the Arts. His play swingset/moon was featured at the 2012 Telluride Playwrights Festival, and the ongoing series No More Plays About White People was twice featured at Sarah Lawrence.
His play White Kwanzaa has received multiple productions, and a second solo, HOW TO NOT GET TURNED INTO A TREE, is featured in the 2013 Contemporary Performance Almanac and has played several festivals. Daniel's latest solo, Portraits of People I've Never Slept With, made the rounds among Brooklyn hipsters before a hit run at the Atlanta Fringe Festival.
Along with poet/performer Jamie Agnello, Daniel created the theatrical genre of tragedy game show. The first episode, I’ve Got a Secret, premiered at Dixon Place, while Those Krazy Kennedys was first performed at Douglass Street Music Collective. The latest episode, Woody vs. Mia vs. Gwyneth vs. Coldplay, had a showing at Dixon Place and a run in Atlanta.
Daniel has written theater reviews for Show Business Weekly, and wrote film reviews for years at film-forward.com.
As a performer, Daniel has been seen at La MaMa, Dixon Place, The Brick, American Dance Institute, Theatre Row, Theatre for the New City, and The New Ohio, among other venues.
Education
M.F.A. in Theater, 2013
Sarah Lawrence College
B.A. in Dramatic Literature, summa cum laude, 2007
College of Arts and Science
New York University, New York, NY
Director:
For a sample, here are photos of Othello, produced in August 2009 by The Shakespeare Studio. The photos are by Corky Yarbro, Red Clay Photography
Playwright:
Commissions
"The Mother"
for Krusher Does Krusher
Ensemble Studio Theatre: Los Angeles
February 2015
The Hudson River Experience
for The Hudson River Museum
Produced February - May 2013
Selected Productions
June 1-4, 2016 Woody vs. Mia vs. Gwyneth vs. Coldplay
Cincy Fringe, Cincinnati, OH
February 25-27, 2016 The Junior Janeites
MPCS Drama, Johns Creek, GA
June 4-6, 2015 Woody vs. Mia vs. Gwyneth vs. Coldplay
Atlanta Fringe Festival, Atlanta, GA
February 26-28, 2015 What You Will: A Shakespearience
MPCS Drama, Johns Creek, GA
November 13-15, 2014 Alex in Wonderland
(an original play devised with middle schoolers)
MPCS Drama, Johns Creek, GA
June 10-15, 2014 HOW TO NOT GET TURNED INTO A TREE (solo)
Pan Asian Repertory NuWorks Festival, New York, NY
June 5-8, 2014 Portraits of People I've Never Slept With
Atlanta Fringe Festival, Atlanta, GA
March 16, 2014 HOW TO NOT GET TURNED INTO A TREE (solo)
Emerging Artists Theatre, New York, NY
March 7, 2014 Those Krazy Kennedys
Douglass Street Music Collective, Brooklyn, NY
March 6-8, 2014 Katzenjammer
Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY
February 13-16, 2014 A Jimmy Carter Valentine
Short Play Festival, New York, NY
November 21, 2013 I’ve Got a Secret
Dixon Place, New York, NY
November 1-2, 2013 Portraits of People I’ve Never Slept With (solo)
Tiny Theater, The Brick, Brooklyn, NY
February 15-17, 2013 swingset/moon
Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY
December 6-16, 2012 White Kwanzaa
Quannapowitt Players, Reading, MA
August 10-26, 2012 My Date With Troy Davis
The New York International Fringe Festival, New York, NY
March 18, 2012 The Princess and Her Peas
Occupy Wall Street Performance Collective, New York, NY
December 15-17, 2011 It’s the Economy, Santa and White Kwanzaa
Performing Arts North, Johns Creek, GA
December 1-4, 2011 It’s the Economy, Santa!
Unity Stage Company, Queens, NY
September 30, 2011 Awake Anonymous
Theatre in the Dark, Williamsburg, VA
July 7, 2011 Yes! More Plays About White People
Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna Beach, FL
January 31, 2011 Variations on the Deaths of Two Teens
2nd Johns Creek Shakespeare Festival, Johns Creek, GA
June 21-24, 2010 Treasures of the Faith
Mary Our Queen VBS, Comayagua, Honduras
October 24, 2009 iShakespeare
The Shakespeare Studio, Johns Creek, GA
November 8, 2008 A Very Palpable Hit: A Hamlet Whodunit
The Shakespeare Studio, Johns Creek, GA
June 23-26, 2008 Turnabouts: The Catholic Mass
Mary Our Queen VBS, Comayagua, Honduras
April 24-27, 2007 There Was and There Wasn’t (an old Iraqi folktale)
Tisch Drama Mainstage, New York, NY
Readings
March 15, 2014 Doris Lessing's Happy Ending
TLW Lexicon Literary Festival, Faversham, England
March 10, 2014 No More Plays About White People
The Flea, New York, NY
August 3, 2013 THE LAKES
Performing Arts North, Johns Creek, GA
April 16, 2013 No More Plays About White People 2
Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY
November 17, 2012 No More Plays About White People
Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY
July 15, 2012 swingset/moon
Telluride Playwrights Festival, Telluride, CO
February 21, 2012 My Date With Troy Davis
Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY
May 7, 2011 swingset/moon Part 1
Performing Arts North, Johns Creek, GA
November 10, 2007 There Was and There Wasn’t
NYU Tisch Community Days, New York, NY
Residencies & Training
June 17-22, 2012 Amherst College
Ping Chong Summer Institute
June 27-July 17, 2011
Atlantic Center for the Arts
Associate Artist in Residence with Heather Woodbury
Honors
STAR Teacher of the Year, Connected Academy (2008 and 2009)
Stanley and Evelyn Lipkin Prize for Playwriting
Dean Archibald L. Bouton Award for Outstanding Thesis in English and Dramatic Literature
NYU CAS Alumni Association Award
Phi Beta Kappa
Experience
Middle and Upper School drama teacher at Mount Pisgah Christian School. Devises original productions with students.
First drama teacher at Johns Creek High School; won 2nd place and other awards at 5-AAA One Act Competition; 4 major productions.
Two years as Language Arts and Drama Dept. Chair at Connected Academy, a charter school in metro Atlanta for 11th and 12th graders.
Co-founder and former director of Performing Arts North, a not for profit educational theater company in metro Atlanta.
Assistant Director and Educational Associate for Classic Stage Company’s 2007 Young Company production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream; NYC.
Artistic Director for NYU English and Dramatic Literature Organization theater from 2004-2006; directed Waiting for Godot, Agnes of God, No Exit
