ABOUT

Daniel is a very busy man.  So busy in fact that this website is in great need of updating and completing!

Daniel is the Creative Producer/CEO of Theatre Works in St Kilda.  In October he will work as Assistant Director to Simon Phillips on The Importance of Being Earnest, starring Geoffrey Rush at Melbourne Theatre Company. In  2012, Daniel will direct Pornography by Simon Stephens at the State Theatre Company of South Australia.  Daniel has worked as producer for New York’s The Wau Wau Sisters, producing The Wau Wau Sisters’ Last Supper throughout Australia (including the Sydney Opera House), Edinburgh and the UK.  He was also producer on their Adelaide Fringe Season, Naked as The Day they Were Born Again.

Daniel has worked as a producer, director and artistic director both in Australia and overseas.  His most recent work as a director includes The Helpmann Academy Maestros and Apprentices Glamour on The High Seas event, My Name is Rachel Corrie (Adelaide and Melbourne), The Event by John Clancy (Adelaide, Melbourne and Sydney), David Ives’ and Its All In The Timing (Adelaide College of the Arts).  Other work includes Journeys’ Made and Like It Is for Adelaide’s Feast Festival and Conflict Under an Australian Quilt for Brink Productions’ Gorge at the Adelaide Festival Centre.  Daniel also directed Adelaide Fringe hit, After the End by Dennis Kelly.

Daniel successfully artistically directed the 2007 and 2008 Feast Festival  (Adelaide’s Festival of Queer Arts and Culture) winning the Ruby Award in 2007 for Community Impact.

He has worked for Leicester Haymarket Theatre Company producing the Australian, UK and New York tour of The Bogus Woman, and directing 2 new pieces of theatre; Contaminated Candy and Excavate

As Director of Youth Theatre and Drama Development at The Point, Eastleigh, he directed Mark Ravenhill’s Citizenship which toured Southern England and was produced in the West End at the Jermyn Street Theatre as part of London Pride. He also directed Mark Wheeller’s Blackout, Richard Nelson’s Where I come From and a new piece of theatre, And Then I Opened the Window. For the Nuffield Theatre, Southampton, Daniel produced a series of moved queer play readings, including The Fat Boy, by Tony Ayers, which he also directed.

Daniel was a founding member of Zip Antics Theatre. In the UK he co-produced the national tour of Go Fish, adapted from the cult film of the same name. In Australia, for Zip Antics, he directed Jonathan Harvey’s Beautiful Thing, Tamsin Oglesby’s Two Lips Indifferent Red , Josh Tyler’s First Time Out , and Adelaide Fringe project Lucky Dip. For The Bakehouse Theatre he directed Chekhov’s, The Seagull and Dina Ross’s Waiting. Daniel has also worked as a Director with Splash Theatre Company and directed Antigone and Atlanta, by Joanna Murray Smith for the Centre For Performing Arts (AC Arts).

He has worked as Assistant Director with State Theatre Company of South Australia, Playbox Theatre (Australia) and Brink Productions. He has worked at D Faces of youth Arts (Artistic Director), Urban Myth Theatre of Youth, Carclew Youth Arts and Jumbuck Youth Theatre. Daniel was awarded the prestigious Dame Ruby Litchfield Scholarship for Performing Arts in 2002, which enabled him to work as Assistant Director to Mike Bradwell on Catherine Johnson’s Little Baby Nothing at The Bush, London. He has also been awarded a Centenary Medal for services to the community through theatre and his production of First Time Out, won Best Community Show (Professional) in the Adelaide Light year awards.