Daniel Passer creates work as a performer, writer and director.
For over a decade, Daniel has been a Clown and Comedy Conceptor for Cirque du Soleil and Dragone Entertainment. Credits include plays on Broadway and across the globe at venues such as Radio City Music Hall, The Beacon Theater, The Goodman, The American Repertory Theatre, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Madrid Stadium, Moscow Art Theatre and The Kremlin. He is a founding member of the international clown companies Your New Best Friends, Gods of Sex and The Rotten Plantains. Most recently, Daniel performed with David Shiner in Juliette Dunn’s “The Puzzle” at The Hedgerow in Philadelphia and is touring Heading into Night, an interactive clown ode to loss and remembrance, with long-time collaborator Beth Milles, which premiered this year at The Cherry Arts in Ithaca, NY. Daniel is currently on the faculty of the Theater School at CalArts and has taught Commedia/Clown/Improvisation at Moscow Art Theatre, Cirque du Soleil, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Brown, Harvard, Cornell and Trinity College.