Daniel Jáquez is an award-winning director. He has directed and produced shows Off and Off-Off Broadway, across the United States, and internationally. Jáquez has premiered work by renowned playwrights Karen Zacarías, Marisela Treviño, Migdalia Cruz, Magdalena Gómez, Mariana Carreño, and Carmen Rivera. He has developed plays by Andrea Thome, Quiara Hudes, Virginia Grise among others. He has also collaborated with composers Arturo O’Farrill, Sinuhé Padilla, and Ernesto Villalobos on new performance theatre pieces. Jáquez is Co-Founder of TuYo Theatre, a San Diego company that creates and produces theatre from a diverse Latinx perspective. He is an Associate Artist with Bocón Arts, for which recently directed a dual language production of Mía by Award-wining Mexican playwright, Amaranta Leyva in Barrio Logan. Jáquez directed the Globe for All tour of The Winter’s Tale and devised La Muerte Descansa en Paz (Death Rests in Peace) and Hermanas (Sisters) for The Old Globe’s Arts Engagement program. He was a participant in Barry Edelstein’s first Classical Directing Fellowship and has directed at The Old Globe’s Powers New Voices Festival and at Cygnet’s Bill and Judy Garrett Finish Line Commission. Jáquez served for over 10 years as a member of The Lark’s México/U.S. Playwright Exchange Program and has translated plays by award-winning Mexican playwrights. His translations are published in NoPassport Press, The Mercurian, and Asymptote and have been produced in New York City. His most recent, Rarámuri Dreams, was selected for the 2020 Columbia University School of the Arts International Play Festival. Jáquez is a Trustee of Diversionary Theatre, a member of the Latinx Theatre Commons Steering Committee, the Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab, The Fence, and NoPassport: a Pan-American theatre coalition. In New York City, he worked as Director and Co-Founder of Unit52 (Intar), Director of INTAR/Jerome Foundation NewWorks Lab, Co-Founder of Calpulli Mexican Dance Company, and Interim Artistic Director of Milagro Theatre (Portland, OR). Jáquez earned an MFA in Directing from the American Repertory Theater/Moscow Art Theater Institute at Harvard University and a BS in Mathematics from the University of Texas.