Daniela Varon

director

Daniela Varon is a New York-based director and acting teacher. She is a long-time member of Shakespeare & Company in Lenox, MA, where she has directed 16 productions to date. She was Associate Director and co-founder, with Kristin Linklater, of The Company of Women, and co-producer, director and moderator of the series Conversations with Shakespeare, which played three seasons at Symphony Space.

Her work ranges from large-scale productions both indoors and outdoors to one-person shows, Shakespeare to new plays. Her productions have been seen at some 25 theaters around the country, and she has developed new work with another 25 companies.

A founding faculty member of the Linklater Center for Voice and Language, Daniela has been on the faculty of the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale, and has taught and directed at Barnard, Bennington, Dartmouth, Emerson, Purchase, and Smith Colleges, Columbia University School of the Arts, NYU/Stella Adler, and the University of Connecticut. She has been a Shakespeare specialist with Lincoln Center’s Open Stages program, and teaches  numerous Shakespeare workshops at schools, conservatories, and theater companies around the U.S. and as far afield as Bulgaria.