Danny Tejera is a playwright, film/TV writer and teacher from Madrid. His play Toros (Second Stage Theater) was a New York Times “Critic’s Pick,” Theatrely “Best Off-Broadway Theater of 2023,” HOLA Award Winner for Outstanding Achievement in Playwriting, and Lucille Lortel Award Nominee (Frank Wood, Best Featured Performer in a Play). It’s published by DPS and had a regional premiere at Rec Room Arts in Houston. His play Tatiana was a finalist for the National Playwrights Conference.
Danny has received fellowships from MacDowell, Djerassi, Millay Arts, Stillwright, and Tofte Lake Center. He’s a member of EST/Youngblood, Colt Coeur, Roundabout Space Jam, The Motor Company Writer’s Lab, and an alum of the Sun Valley Playwrights Fellowship/MTC workshop. He is a recipient of a Peter Jay Sharp Foundation Commission from Second Stage, an EST/Sloan Commission, and a Lucille Lortel Alcove Commission. He has taught at UT-Austin, The National Theater Institute, New York Theater Workshop, PEN America, National Queer Theater, The Bushwick Starr, PlayPenn, Colt Coeur, Saint Ann’s, The School of the New York Times, and Columbia University’s Double Discovery Center, among other institutions. He received a B.A. from Columbia University and a Playwriting M.F.A. at UT-Austin, where he was mentored by Annie Baker and Branden Jacobs-Jenkins. He’s represented by WME and 2AM.