NEWS & UPCOMING
March 15 and 27 - 2024
O TIME
written and performed by David Zellnik
At the United Solo Theatre Festival 2024 at Theatre Row
PAST EVENTS
February 17 and 18 - 2024
THE RAKE’S PROGRESS
by Igor Stravinsky
Yale Opera at the Shubert Theatre New Haven
Yale Opera presents a new production of Stravinsky’s masterpiece The Rake’s Progress with the Yale Philharmonia, under the baton of Metropolitan Opera conductor Daniela Candillari with staging by Danilo Gambini.
October 26 to November 19 - 2023
AGRESTE
by Newton Moreno
Translated and Directed by Danilo Gambini
September 2023
THIS IS HOW WE COME ALIVE
Reading at the Vineyard Theater
By Laurie Lathem, with Alicia Pilgrim, Calvin Leon Smith, and Jessica Hecht
June 2023
PUBLIC THEATER
EWG - Spotlight Series
Workshop Reading of Bartolomé De Las Casas Ruins My Pool by Julián Mesri
March 2023
Danilo Gambini was announced as the new Associate Artistic Director at Studio Theatre
January 15, 2023
7:30PM
Powers New Voices Festival
Staged Reading of
Uncle Remus, His Life and Times | As told to Aaron Coleman
By Aaron Coleman
Directed by Danilo Gambini
January 20, 2023
3PM and 7:30PM
THEBES - A New Musical
Concert Reading at Rattlestick Theater
Music and Lyrics by Katie Hathaway, Solon Snider Sway, and Emma H. Sway
Book by Katie Hathaway and Emma H. Sway
Directed by and Developed with Danilo Gambini
Music Direction by Andrea Grody
January 30, 9:30PM
JOE’S PUB - THE PUBLIC THEATER
Michelle J. "Micha" Rodriguez's newest musical RAIMUNDA tells the story of a Young Puerto Rican musician who moves to New York on a quest to find her people, her sound, and healthy queer love in this celebration of the agonies and ecstasies of the musician’s life in New York City.
With a book by Noelle Viñas and Rodriguez-penned songs featuring the genre-defying sounds of the Latin diaspora, RAIMUNDA will speak and sing in Spanish and English, full of salsa, boleros, ranchera and joy. RAIMUNDA is the joyous queer salsa musical of all of our wildest dreams!!
Photo credit: Ella Pennington
October 2022
26 Miles
by Quiara Alegría Hudes
Danilo is directing 26 Miles at Gulfshore Playhouse, in Naples FL.
*Production Cancelled due to Hurricane Ian
May 2022
Danilo was announced as the new Associate Artistic Director at Rattlestick Theater.
May 4-22, 2021
Sabina - a New Musical
By Willy Holtzman, with Music by Louise Beach, and lyrics by Darrah Cloud
Co-Directed by Danilo Gambini and Daniella Topol
March 4-6, 2021
Thebes - a New Musical
In development with composers Emma Hathaway, Katie Hathaway and Solon Snider.
First Workshop Production to happen at Quinnipiac University
August 14 to September 19 2021
RATTLESTICK PLAYWRIGHTS THEATER | WORLD PREMIERE
NI MI MADRE
Written by Arturo Luís Soria
Directed by Danilo Gambini
August 14 to September 19, 2021 - Presented Both in-person and live-streamed
Inspirited with the tradition of Umbanda ritual, the music of Gloria Estefan, Cher, and Maria Bethânia, Ni Mi Madre invites audiences into the tumultuous relationship between a larger-than-life Brazilian woman, Bete, and her queer son. Ni Mi Madre explores the intersection between queerness and Latinidad, while laying bare the secrets, memories, fears, and celebrations of being an immigrant and first-generation American. Directed by Rattlestick’s Directing Fellow, Danilo Gambini and partnering with community organizations Sol Project and Group. BR, this is a world-premiere production of this solo show for this accomplished actor and first-time writer, and the director’s first professional production in the U.S.
February 2021
International Theatermakers Award
Danilo Gambini is one of the recipients of the 2021 International Theatermakers Award given by The Playwrights Realm and Dyer Harris LLC
March 2021
AN ILIAD
By Denis O’Hare and Lisa Peterson
Based on Homer’s The Iliad, Translated by Robert Fagles
July 2020 - September 2022
Danilo is a Member of the 2020- 2022 Roundabout Directors Group.
Founding member of Midnight Oil Collective, an artist-centric mixed production company, focused on financially sustainable cross-media art-making.