Sheila Daniels

Biography

Sheila Daniels Based in Seattle since 1994, Sheila served as Associate Director of Seattle’s Intiman Theatre, co-founded and served as Co-Artistic Director of both Theater Under Ground and Baba Yaga Productions, and has held positions as Associate Artistic Director at Capitol Hill Arts Center (CHAC) and Artistic Director of Theater Schmeater. Her directing credits include According to Coyote (Children’s Theatre Company, Minneapolis), Abe Lincoln in Illinois, Crime and Punishment, A Streetcar Named Desire (Intiman Theatre), Electra, Pericles (Seattle Shakespeare Company), Rubble Women (UMO Ensemble), According to Coyote (Seattle Children’s Theatre), Crime and Punishment (Theater Under Ground/CHAC), Waiting for Lefty, God’s Country, Arcadia (CHAC), Rhoda: A Life in Stories (Book-It), The Bridge of San Luis Rey (Strawberry Theatre Workshop), Burning Bridget Cleary (Ladykiller Productions), Macbeth (Wooden O), The Last State (On the Boards), Vaya con Lola, Shock Brigades: Women in Combat (Baba Yaga), Anaphylaxis (Throwing Bones), and Trojan Women: A Love Story, Dream of a Common Language, Language of Angels, Transformations and Other Tales, The Trestle at Pope Lick Creek (Theater Schmeater). She has also worked as an actor and adapted numerous texts for the stage, including a commission from the Tacoma Museum of Glass to adapt and direct A.S. Byatt’s short story COLD. She taught Acting and Cross-Disciplinary Collaboration from 1998-2008 at Cornish College of the Arts, while serving as a Resident Director there. Upcoming productions include Much Ado About Nothing and a new, devised piece based on Virginia Woolf’s The Waves.