Bio
Daniel P. Wilson är en amerikansk teaterkonstnär, regissör och pedagog—nu baserad i Stockholm. Originally from California, Daniel brings decades of experience in directing, performing, teaching, and producing across the U.S. regional theatre landscape, and is now focused on building meaningful collaborations in Sweden’s evolving arts scene.
Daniel is a graduate of the Pacific Conservatory of the Performing Arts at Alan Hancock College in Santa Maria, California, and holds a BFA in Directing from the Theatre Program/Colle of the Performing Arts at Roosevelt University in Chicago, Illinois.
After relocating with his family in 2025, Daniel has been actively reconnecting with Scandinavian colleagues and exploring new opportunities in performance, education, and cultural exchange. His work blends American stagecraft with Nordic sensibility, and he’s always open to projects that challenge, inspire, and connect.
Whether you found this page in English or stumbled in på svenska—välkommen. Let’s make something together!
Dan Wilson as The Doge in Life of Galileo at PlayMakers Repertory Company.
Acting
Daniel has appeared in more than fifty stage productions, a dozen commercials, and a growing slate of television and film projects. Recent screen credits include HBO Max’s The Staircase and Netflix’s The Hunting Wives—currently the #1 show in the U.S. He also voiced the narrator in Changing Boundaries: The History of San Jose, replacing Peter Coyote.
Favorite stage roles include Don Quixote (Man of La Mancha), Lockstock (Urinetown), Kerchak (Tarzan), Leon Czolgosz (Assassins), and Tom Joad (Grapes of Wrath).
Daniel arbetar både på scen och framför kameran, med erfarenhet från teater, reklamfilm och internationella produktioner. Han är alltid öppen för nya roller och samarbeten—på engelska eller svenska.
Directing
Daniel’s directing work spans regional theatre, youth productions, and academic collaborations across the U.S. and Sweden. Most recently, he directed Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ Gloria at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, working with MFA students in the PATP/Ground Floor Studio series.
Before relocating to Stockholm, Daniel’s final California production was Joseph Heller’s Catch-22 at Los Altos Stage Company, where he had previously directed The Fox on the Fairway and the critically acclaimed Harold & Maude. Other directing credits include: All Shook Up, Grease, Anthem (his own adaptation of Ayn Rand’s novella), Thoroughly Modern Millie, Deus Ex Quanta, and 2 ½ Minute Ride. Associate/Assistant credits: The Fantasticks, Jekyll and Hyde, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, and Play On!
Daniel har också arbetat med svenska teaterinstitutioner som Teater Magnolia, Stockholms Stadsteatern och Riksteatern—och är alltid nyfiken på nya samarbeten över språk- och landsgränser.
The Fox on the Fairway at Los Altos Stage Company.
Business portrait/headshot by Christopher Peoples.
Arts management/PRODUCING
Before relocating to the Carolinas in 2016, Daniel served for four seasons as Associate Artistic Director at Los Altos Stage Company, where he produced 22 plays and musicals—including two co-productions with Los Altos Youth Theatre. Prior to that, he worked as Artistic Manager at Children’s Musical Theater San Jose, as a Casting Session Director for top commercial casting offices in Los Angeles, and as a corporate recruiter.
Daniel is a proud alum of Directors Lab West and a former Steering Committee member of genARTS Silicon Valley, where he received the Joshua Russell Movers & Shakers Award in 2015 for his contributions to emerging arts leadership. He also briefly served as Program Manager for ArtSwell at Triangle ArtWorks, helping to launch a regional initiative for professional development in the arts.
Daniel har lång erfarenhet av konstnärligt ledarskap, produktion och nätverksbyggande inom scenkonstvärlden—och är nu baserad i Stockholm, där han gärna samarbetar med svenska och internationella kulturorganisationer.