Daniel Talbott
Artistic Director
Daniel Talbott has most recently worked as an actor on The Merry Wives of Windsor (Shakespeare Festival of St. Louis), Master Builder (Irish Repertory Theatre), Rocket City (Alabama Shakespeare Festival), Tartuffe (McCarter Theatre and Yale Repertory Theatre), Marat/Sade (The Classical Theatre of Harlem), Progress (Ian Morgan and Immigrants’ Theatre Project), Passion Play workshop (The Goodman Theatre), The Beginning of the And (Audax Theater Group), The Revenger’s Tragedy (Red Bull Theater), Manic Flight Reaction (New York Stage and Film), 3F, 4F (The Magic Theatre – Dean Goodman Choice Award), Learning Curve (Besch Solinger Productions), Eurydice (Berkeley Rep – Dean Goodman Choice Award), Erin Go Bra-Less (The O’Neill Playwrights Conference), Venice in Vegas (HB Playwrights), Now That’s What I Call a Storm (Edge Theater Company), and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (The American Repertory Theatre). His most recent film and television work includes Pretty Bird, Buffalo Girls, Missionary Position, and Law and Order. His work as a director and playwright has been seen at Red Elevator Productions, HERE, Red Fern Theatre, The Side Project, Singularity, Synapse Productions, Six Figures, Expanded Arts, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, Soho Rep, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s Sitelines Festival, New York International Fringe Festival, and the Royal Court. He is the recipient of a Drama-Logue Award for acting and a 2007 NYIT Award for directing, and was named one of 15 People of the Year 2006 by nytheatre.com. He is a graduate of Juilliard and of Solano College Theatre’s ATP, and is a literary associate of Rattlestick Playwrights Theater and the founding artistic director of Rising Phoenix Rep (recipient of the 2007 NYIT Caffe Cino Fellowship Award).

