Danya Taymor

Danya Taymor is a Tony and Obie-award winning New York based director, writer and translator. She became the youngest woman to win the Tony Award for Direction for her work on The Outsiders, which won four Tony Awards including Best Musical and is currently running on Broadway and in the 1st National Tour. She received a second consecutive Tony nomination for Kimberly Belflower's John Proctor is the Villain, which starred Sadie Sink and was nominated for seven Tony Awards including Best Play. In 2021, she made her Broadway debut with Antoinette Nwandu's Pass Overwhich was the first play back on Broadway after the 18 month covid shutdown. Danya's production of Pass Overwas filmed in collaboration with Spike Lee, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and is streaming on Amazon Prime. She directed the world premiere of Will Arbery's Pulitzer finalist Heroes of the Fourth Turningfor which she won the Obie Award and the Callaway Award, and directed the New York premiere of Arbery's Evanston Salt Costs Climbing. She directed the US Premier of Trophy Boysby Emmanuelle Mattana. Other world premiere productions includeDaddyby Jeremy O. Harris, queensby Martyna Majok, Wyomingand My Daughter Keeps Our Hammerby Brian Watkins, The Sensuality Partyby Justin Kuritzkes, and Jonahby Rachel Bonds. International work includes Endgameby Samuel Becket at The Gate Theater in Dublin, “Daddy”at the Almeida, as well as the upcoming Royal Court production of John Proctor is the Villain. Other upcoming work includes the world premiere production of Will Arbery's Spite House.She received the Cullman Award for Extraordinary Creativity from Lincoln Center and received a BA from Duke University.

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Theater
Di Glazer @ CAA
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Film
Christina Chou @ CAA
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PR:
Guido Gotz @ Apex Public Relations
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