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’s “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’s published by Dramatists Play Service and will have a regional premiere at Rec Room Arts in Houston in Spring 2025.
Danny has received fellowships from MacDowell, Djerassi, 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 is developing a TV project with Secuoya Studios and is working on his debut feature film.
He has taught with The National Theater Institute, UT-Austin, New York Theater Workshop, PEN America, National Queer Theater, The Bushwick Starr, Colt Coeur, Saint Ann’s School, The School of the New York Times, and Columbia University’s Double Discovery Center, among other institutions. He received a BA from Columbia University and a Playwriting MFA at UT–Austin, where he was mentored by Annie Baker and Branden Jacobs-Jenkins. He’s represented by WME and 2AM.