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 faculty member of the Linklater Center for Voice and Language, Daniela has taught and directed on faculty or as a guest artist at Barnard, Bennington, Dartmouth, Emerson, Purchase, and Smith Colleges, Columbia University, the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale, NYU/Stella Adler, the 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.

She was a 2025-2026 Artistic Research Fellow at the Folger Shakespeare Library.