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,” 2024 HOLA Award Winner for Outstanding Achievement in Playwriting, and Lucille Lortel Award Nominee (Frank Wood, Best Featured Performer in a Play). It is published by Dramatists Play Service.

Danny has received fellowships from MacDowell, Millay Arts, Stillwright (Erik Ehn’s Silent Retreat), and Tofte Lake Center. He’s a member or alum of Youngblood, Ensemble Studio Theater’s Obie Award-winning collective for emerging playwrights, Colt Coeur, Roundabout Space Jam, and the Sun Valley Playwrights Fellowship/MTC workshop. He is a recipient of a Peter Jay Sharp Foundation Commission from Second Stage, EST/Sloan Commission, and a Lucille Lortel Alcove Commission. 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.