{"title":"Danya Taymor","role":"Director","image":"https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/roundabout-theatre-company\/image\/upload\/c_fill,f_auto,g_auto,h_880,q_auto,w_880\/v1\/Headshots\/2023-2024\/Jonah\/Danya-Headshot-new.jpg","lede":null,"content":"
DANYA TAYMOR<\/strong> (Director<\/em>) is an Obie-award winning New York based director, writer, and translator. Recent direction includes the World Premiere musical adaptation of S.E. Hinton\u2019s seminal novel The Outsiders <\/em>(La Jolla Playhouse) Broadway: Antoinette Chinonye Nwandu's Pass Over <\/em>at the August Wilson Theater. Off-Broadway\/International\/Regional: Will Arbery's Heroes of the Fourth Turning<\/em> (Playwrights Horizons, Callaway Award for Direction, Pulitzer Prize Finalist, Lortel Outstanding Play) and Evanston Salt Costs Climbing<\/em> (New Group), Samuel Beckett's Endgame<\/em> (Gate, Dublin), Jeremy O. Harris' Daddy<\/em> (Almeida, London + New Group\/Vineyard), Korde Arrington Tuttle's Graveyard Shift <\/em>(Goodman Theater), Pass Over<\/em> (Lincoln Center + Steppenwolf, Lortel Outstanding Play), Danai Gurira's Familiar<\/em> (Steppenwolf), Martyna Majok's Queens<\/em> (Lincoln Center Theater), Justin Kuritzkes\u2019 The Sensuality Party <\/em>(The New Group), Susan Soon-He Stanton\u2019s Cygnus <\/em>(Women\u2019s Project), Brian Watkins\u2019 Wyoming<\/em> (Lesser America) and My Daughter Keeps Our Hammer<\/em> (The Flea), and Sarah Gancher\u2019s The Place We Built <\/em>(The Flea). Translations include Alejandro Rica\u00f1o's We Are Getting Better at Saying Goodbye<\/em>, Luis Enrique Guitierrez Ortiz Monasterio's I Hate Fucking Mexicans<\/em>, and Ettore Scola's Working on a Special Day<\/em>.<\/p> Her production of Antoinette Nwandu's Pass Over<\/em> was filmed in collaboration with Spike Lee and premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. Now streaming on Amazon Prime.<\/p> Awards and fellowships include the Cullman Award for Extraordinary Creativity from Lincoln Center, Time Warner Directing Fellowship at Women's Project, 2050 fellowship at New York Theatre Workshop, Van Lier Directing Fellowship; Gates Foundation Grant, Rough Draft Residency at the Drama League, and the Lincoln Center Directors Lab. She has taught theater in Ecuador and Slovakia.<\/p> BA: Duke University.<\/p>","website":"","alt":"Black and white photo of Danya Taymor, who has dark brown eyes, wavy long dark hair, and light skin. She wears a long dark coat."}