Daniel Leeman Smith (he/they)

NYC Based Director, Playwright, Producer & Educator

Citizen of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma

“Daniel’s work as a playwright, director, producer, educator, and activist offers an incredible example to our students of the kind of artistic citizenship our curriculum aims to make possible.”
— Tomi Tsunoda, NYU Tisch Drama Chair

Director

Smith is a director whose work is rooted in the spirit of collaboration and radical joy and infused with sass and panache.

Directing Portfolio
“His work is bitingly entertaining and staged with the kind of energy they used to call pizzazz.”
— Jon Sobel, NYC Blog Critics
“Leeman Smith’s world is far from traditional – it transgresses the edges of gender, absurdity, social commentary, and queerness.”
— Dr. Courtney Elkin Mohler (Santa Barbara Chumash), Sal Rubio, & Mauricio Salgado

Writer

Check out Daniel's Plays
“Daniel Leeman Smith is a natural teacher, and as an artist and scholar, he has an impressive and inspiring amount of aesthetic and pedagogical knowledge.”
— Dr. Nancy Smithner, Clinical Professor of Educational Theatre NYU Steinhardt

Educator

Teaching Portfolio

Upcoming Shows

January 23, 2027

Proclamation to the Great White Father and All His People

by Daniel Leeman Smith & Blossom Johnson

PAC NYC

New York, NY

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