Daniella Topol

Daniella Topol first fell in love with NYU's Graduate Musical Theater Writing Program when she was the New Works Program Director at the National Alliance for Musical Theater from 2000-2004.  She was recently the Staging Director for The Shed's Reich/Richter/Part, and her other recent musical productions include: Sarah Schlesinger, Mike Reid and Mindi Dickstein's Wind in the Willows (Two River Theater) and Niko Tsakalakos and Janet Allard's Pool Boy (Barrington Stage).  Other recent productions include:  Martyna Majok’s Ironbound (Rattlestick; Roundhouse; Steppenwolf’s First Look, NY Times Critics’ Pick), Sheila Callaghan/Topol’s WATER,  Jessica Dickney’s Charles Ives Take Me Home (Rattlestick) and Row After Row (Women’s Project), Cori Thomas’ When January Feels Like Summer (Ensemblle Studio Theatre/P73/Women’s Proj; NY Times Critics Pick), Rachel Bonds’ Five Mile Lake (South Coast Rep), Sheila Callaghan’s Dead City (New Georges) and Laviscious Something (Women’s Project), Rajiv Joseph’s Monster at the Door(Alley Theatre), Tony Meneses’ Guadalupe in the Guest Room (Two River), Catherine Treischmann’s How the World Began (South Coast Rep and Women’s Project), Lloyd Suh’s Jesus in India (MaYi and Magic). Daniella is the Artistic Director of Rattlestick Playwrights Theater in the West Village and  lives in Brooklyn with her husband and 6-year old daughter.