WELCOME TO DANIEL'S SITE
Daniel is an Award-Winning Playwright, Screenwriter, Award-Nominated Actor and Voice Over Artist.
As an Actor, he has played a wide variety of lead and character roles in various mediums, and has worked with a range of distinguished theatre companies. As a Playwright, he has had plays produced throughout many areas of the U.S., as well as Sydney and Melbourne, Australia and London, England. He is also Co-Founder/Artistic Director of fandango 4 Art House.
Feel free to browse this page for recent and upcoming projects.
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RECENT PROJECTS
After acclaimed runs in NYC at the PIT Loft, the 2018 Downtown Urban Arts Festival and the East Village Playhouse, and after its most recent acclaimed run this summer in Washington DC, Daniel's American Tranquility returned to NYC and to the East Village Playhouse for a special 3 week engagement, January 31st through February 15th, 2020.
(Click on images for Snippet Theatre Episodes 2 & 6, featuring segments from American Tranquility.)
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OTHER RECENT ACTING/WRITING PROJECTS
Daniel performed the roles of Dr. Campbell and Dr. Benedict in the workshop presentation of William Baer's Three Generations of Imbeciles at the Sheen Center. He also provided VO narration for The Conference Forum, Augmented Reality, RokkitPM.com, Vanity Fair and voiced the role of "Shane" in the podcast drama Heart in a Net for Joshua Kaufman Productions as part of Unchilding, which was presented at the DiMenna Center for Classical Music in NYC. This past spring, his one-act The Lepers received its World Premier in Ensemble Studio Theatre's Marathon of One-Act Plays.
*In April 2020, Daniel's company, fandango 4 Art House, began producing the Snippet Theatre Series in response to our current quarantined times during the Covid pandemic. They've thus far produced 6 episodes, which are available to view at www.fandango4arthouse.weebly.com.
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Daniel's play THE WILD BOAR was a recent Finalist for both the
2019 Woodward/Newman Drama Awardand the 2019 Janet and Bruce Bunch New Play Award.
His play JOHN FREDERICK PARKER LEAVES AT INTERMISSION
was a Semi-Finalist for the 2020 Thomas Wolfe International Play Award.
Daniel's adapted screenplay for The Lepers, from his own play of the same name,
was nominated for Best Screenplay of a Narrative Short in the 2020 Queens World Film Festival,
where it went on to win Outstanding Production of a Narrative Short (see below).
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Daniel's acclaimed play
DAY OF THE DOG is now published
by Broadway Play Publishing.
"A playwright to watch!"
- Theatre is Easy
"Mr. Damiano's play masterfully
disassembles the porous foundation of
this family. - virtually flawless."
-Stage & Cinema
Editor's Pick - "An absorbing play."
- St. Louis Post-Dispatch
"4 1/2 Stars - Highly humorous and suspenseful."
- Ladue News
"Engaging to the end."
- Theatremania
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SCREENWRITING
Daniel adapted his short play, THE LEPERS, to the screen,
which was filmed under the direction of acclaimed director
JD Ganz, starring Eric Percival and Valerie Terranova.
THE LEPERS was selected as part of the 2020 Queens World Film Festival in NYC, and was honored as Outstanding Production-Narrative Short. It has also just been selected
as part of the 2020 Art of Brooklyn Festival, June 5th and June 10th, 2020 at 9pm. (Click on Art of Brooklyn Image)
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Daniel's pilot script for THE OUTLET is available
upon request.
It's 1993 in NYC, and video rental is all the rage. Lou's Outlet, a Hell's Kitchen hub, is the home to the true film aficionado. But amidst the impressive inventory is a cocky staff rife with dysfunction and sordid histories - and yet it will be the most stable thing in the life of an
aimless young cinephile from New Jersey.
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Daniel is a member of the New Play Exchange
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