Daniel’s original musicals include The Trouble With Doug, Hansel & Gretl & Heidi and & Günter, and The Longing and the Short of It. Projects in development include a noir musical for pre-teens called Middle School Mysteries and an adaptation of Russell Banks’s novel The Sweet Hereafter. Daniel’s work has been produced and/or presented at the Kennedy Center for the Arts (DC), Lincoln Center (NYC), and in locations from California to Florida, Vancouver to Prince Edward Island, and Paris to Denmark. He is the recipient of the prestigious Edward Kleban Prize for Lyrics, a $100,000 award given annually to the “most promising lyricist in American musical theatre”, as well as a Jonathan Larson Grant and the ASCAP Foundation’s Cole Porter Award for Excellence in Music and Lyrics.
With Dr. Gabor Maté, Daniel is the co-author of The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture, out this Fall from Knopf Canada. The father-son pair have collaborated on the Hello Again workshop since 2016, leading programs in Vancouver, Toronto & New York; a book version is currently in progress. Daniel also runs the world’s only “mental chiropractic” service, Take A Walk With Daniel, and is the host of the YouTube program “Lyrics To Go”.
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