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DANIELLA IGNACIO

She/her/hers

Writer | Theatre Artist | Musician 

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upcoming/currently: 

  • Music Director for Three Little Birds at Bowie State University, dir. Elena Velasco, adapt. by Michael Bobbitt, music by Bob Marley (3/26-3/28) 

  • Music Director for Mean Girls at KIPP DC, dir. Elena Muzzi (4/2-4/4) 

  • Music Director for Imagination Stage’s Encore Ensemble (5/9), a program I helped launch and have been part of since its inaugural fall 2024 semester

  • Planning an AAPI Night for Dawn at Everyman Theatre and AAPI Heritage Month event series for HEART! 

what i’ve been up to recently:

  • My article on Maybe Happy Ending’s casting controversy last summer was American Theatre's #5 most viewed article of 2025. 

  • I was a script reader for the O’Neill’s 2026 National Playwrights Conference. 

  • I spent a week in NYC covering the National Alliance for Musical Theatre’s Festival of New Musicals on a Critical Minded grant for American Theatre. 

  • I recently closed The Nutcracker at the Puppet Co., directed by Danny Pushkin, and went on for my Clara and Mother tracks 7 times total! 

  • I performed in a D.C.-focused production of Fear and Misery in the Third Reich by Bertolt Brecht, dir. Theo Yu, at Capitol Hill Arts Workshop. The week we went up was the week Trump first sent the National Guard into D.C. 

  • I music assisted Soft Magical Tofu Boy(s) at the O’Neill’s 2024 National Music Theatre Conference in Waterford, CT, and AMDed/ran sound/score prepped for Devil’s Isle Shakespeare Co.’s twist on The Tempest, which toured across Bermuda and brought Shakespeare into schools and communities for free with an actor-musician cast.

Me at piano!.jpg

I am...
A MUSICIAN

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