Daniela Varon

Daniela Varon is a New York-based theater director and acting teacher. She is a long-time member of Shakespeare & Company in Lenox, MA, where she has directed 17 productions to date. With Kristin Linklater and Carol Gilligan, she was co-founder and Associate Director of The Company of Women, which produced Shakespeare plays and outreach programs for women and girls. She was also co-producer, director and moderator of the series Conversations with Shakespeare, which played three seasons at Symphony Space.

Her work ranges from large-scale productions both indoors and outdoors to one-person shows, Shakespeare to new plays. Her productions have been seen at some 25 theaters around the country, and she has developed new work with another 25 companies.

A founding member of the Linklater Center for Voice and Language, Daniela has been on the faculty of the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale, and has taught and directed at Barnard, Bennington, Dartmouth, Emerson, Purchase, and Smith Colleges, Columbia University, NYU/Stella Adler, University of Connecticut, and Yale University. She has been a Shakespeare specialist with Lincoln Center’s Open Stages program, and teaches Shakespeare workshops at schools, conservatories, and theater companies around the U.S. and as far afield as Bulgaria.

Daniela Varon is also a 2025-26 Folger Institute Artistic Research Fellow. Her project, in partnership with John Douglas Thompson, is Shakespeare in Sable.