Daniel Kramer

Daniel Kramer is a freelance theater and opera director.  His credits include Pelleas und Melisande at the Burg Theater, Vienna, Mask of Orpheus, Jack the Ripper, War Requiem and La traviata (Artistic Director of English National Opera from 2016 to 2019).  La Boheme and La Traviata (Theatre Basel, ENO), Sadko (Vlaamse & Bratislava Opera), Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare’s Globe), Dream Play (Harvard University), Tristan and Isolde (ENO), The Serpent (Brown University), Pélleas et Mélisande (Mariinsky and Bolshoi Theatre, Golden Mask Awards), Carmen (Vlaamse Opera and Opera North), Punch & Judy (Grand Theatre Geneva and ENO – Outstanding Achievement in Opera, South Bank Award), Bluebeard’s Castle (ENO, Mariinsky and Bolshoi Theatre – Golden Mask Awards), Pictures from an Exhibition (Sadlers Wells and Young Vic), King Kong (Regent Theatre, Australia), Angles in America (Headlong, Glasgow Citizens Theatre, Lyric Hammersmith), Woyzeck (St. Ann’s Warehouse NYC); Bent (Trafalgar Studios London), Prick Up Your Ears (Comedy Theatre London), Hair, Woyzeck (Gate Theatre, Notting Hill), Through the Leaves (Southwark Playhouse & Duchess Theatre, West End).  Daniel is a NYC Drama League Fellow.  Education: Northwestern University, Ecole de Mime Corporeal Dramatique, International School of commedia dell’arte and Circus Space.  Daniel has been Artistic Director of English National Opera, an associate at the Gate Theatre, Notting Hill, Associate at the Young Vic Theatre, London, and a Creative Associate at the Royal Shakespeare Company. He has also been a guest artist and professor at Harvard University, Brown University, New York University, Northwestern and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.