Brian Daniels is an established and award-winning playwright and theatre practicioner
His recent work includes Where’s Your Mama Gone?, a play based on the experiences of two children whose mother fell victim to a serial killer. A Heritage Lottery Funded exhibition was created around the play looking at heritage loss in looked after children. The play has been widely performed – six weeks at the Carriageworks Theatre, Leeds, four weeks at the New End Theatre, London, four weeks at the Hen & Chickens Theatre, London.
A Big Day for the Goldbergs, a comedy looking at provincial Jewish life premiered at the Leeds Jewish Performing Arts Festival in 2011 with subsequent productions at Leeds Carriageworks Theatre, the New End Theatre, Hampstead, Edinburgh Festival and toured throughout the UK. The Good and the True was adapted from the original play produced by Svandovo Divadlo (Prague’s leading repertory theatre), and collaborating with Prague City Hall,this play toured the UK and ran in New York – off-Broadway for 8 weeks in the Summer of 2012. It was also performed for the United Nations, New York. Brian has gone on to write many acclaimed plays dealing with health and social issues, including Howard Bound, which was the recipient of a Patient First Award 2017 and shortlisted for the Health Service Journal National Awards.
Between 1997 and 2011 Brian was Artistic Director of the New End Theatre, Hampstead where he produced more than 200 new plays, musicals and cultural events. He was concurrently Artistic Director of the Shaw Theatre, Euston where he produced larger scale theatrical events and concerts with artists including Eartha Kitt, Elaine Stritch, Alison Moyet, Michel LeGrand,Michael Feinstein, Elaine Paige, Gloria Gaynor, Boy George, Dionne Warwick,Chita Rivera and numerous others. Many of these concerts toured the UK. He was also Artistic Director of the New Players Theatre, London and the Grace Theatre, Battersea. He is currently Artistic Director of the New End Theatre Beyond.
He is a Board member of the Royal Victoria Hall Foundation and a BoardMember of Phoenix Dance Theatre, Leeds.