DANIEL PASSER
Performer/Sound Designer
Danny creates work as a performer, writer and director. For over a decade, Daniel has been a clown and comedy conceptor for Cirque du Soleil and Dragone Entertainment. Credits include plays on Broadway and across the globe, at venues such as Radio City Music Hall, The Beacon Theater, Lookingglass Ensemble, The Goodman, The American Repertory Theatre, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Madrid Stadium, Moscow Art Theatre and The Kremlin. He is a founding member of the international clown companies Your New Best Friends, Gods of Sex and The Rotten Plantains. Most recently, Daniel performed with David Shiner in Juliette Dunn’s The Puzzle at The Hedgerow in Philadelphia, he’s in pre-production with collaborators Bianca Sapetto and Veronika Krausas on their latest spectacle My Birthday Party for Sprung. Daniel is currently the associate director of performance and faculty of the Theater School at CalArts, and has taught commedia/clown/ improvisation at Moscow Art Theatre, Cirque du Soleil, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Brown, Harvard, Cornell, Pace University and the Actors Studio. For more, please visit danielpasser.com.