Daniel Irizarry
Daniel Irizarry (he/him) is a Puerto Rican born International Experimental Theatre director, performer and educator based in NYC. His work embraces highly stylized and visceral acting, pataphysics, a profound celebration of GERMS, and communion with the audience through consent. He is the Artistic Director of One-Eighth Theater and Lecturer at MIT Music & Theatre Arts. In his most recent work, he directed and conceptualized ‘Retratos’ with local Chilean and Argentinian actors at Temporales Internacionales de Teatro and Universidad de Los Lagos in Puerto Montt, Chile. This Spring he will direct and perform in the world premiere of “classdismissed.edu” at La MaMa’s Ellen Stewart Theatre (April, ‘25). Next summer his experimental musical project “My Onliness” will perform in the prestigious Sibiu International Theatre Festival in Romania (June, ‘25). He is also a Practical Advisor for artist Dominykas Vaitiekūnas’ PhD Thesis at The Doctoral Department at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre.
Other notable credits; Directed and devised “Plum Box—Strange—Ideal and more than…” 10 poems of South Korean artist Yi Sang, created at MIT Music and Theatre Arts in collaboration with Harvard and Berklee College, composed by Professor Woody Pak. Directed & performed in “Ultra Left Violence” written by Robert Lyons, as the final project for the historic closing of 30 years at the New Ohio Theatre. “The Maids” by acclaimed playwright Jose Rivera (New York Times Critics pick); “UBU” by Adam Symkowicz (Time Out NY Critics pick). Directed the world premiere of “Busu” by Mishima at Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theatre Festival. Directed and performed “YOVO” written by Robert Lyons and produced in NYC, Poland, Cuba and South Korea. Directed and performed “My Onliness” by Robert Lyons at New Ohio Theatre in NYC & selected as one of the best performances Off-Broadway in 2022 by Theatermania. Directed the world premiere of Witkacy’s “The Madman and the Nun” in Ankara, Turkey which toured to Gardzienice International festival in Poland, produced at Pregones Theatre and Bohemian National Hall in NYC.
Over his career he has directed, performed and taught workshops in India, Germany, Japan, Lithuania, Italy, Romania, UK, Colombia, among others. As an educator he has most notably taught as a Guest Professor at Folkwang University (Essen, Germany), Visiting Assistant Professor at Bilkent University Performing Arts (Ankara, Turkey) and Assistant Professor in the Acting Department at Seoul Institute of the Arts (Ansan, South Korea). He holds an MFA in Acting from Columbia University and a BA in Drama at The Universidad de Puerto Rico.
Logan Gabrielle Schulman
Logan Gabrielle Schulman (they/them) is a Brooklyn-based multidisciplinary director and puppeteer, writer and designer, and co-founder of Mirage Auto Depot. Upcoming work: Waco Boy Club by Mack Lawrence, National Queer Theater 2026; and Beyond The Wall/Mas Alla Del Muro, developed by Flying Leap Productions and presented in Ambos Nogales at the US/MX border. Directing credits in New York include: the Guggenheim Museum, Theatre of the Oppressed NY/The Public, Hangar Theatre, The Brick, TheaterWorksUSA, Theaterlab, Recess Gallery, 601Artspace, and in That Show at Index; and regionally with Orlando Rep, Sarasota Orchestra, FSU/Asolo Rep, FringeArts, Melbourne Fringe, Greensboro Contemporary Jewish Museum, Sarasota Art Museum, Arthur Ross Gallery, Old City Jewish Arts Center.
Their work has been presented by theaters, festivals, galleries, and museums nationally and internationally, and commissioned by Walnut Street Theatre (Philadelphia, PA), DopoLavoro Teatrale (Toronto), Greensboro Public Art (North Carolina), and the Galleries at the Chautauqua Institute (New York). Selected dramatic works are held in the permanent collections of the Harry Ransom Center at UT Austin, the Brizdle-Schoenberg Special Collections of the Goldstein Library at Ringling College of Art and Design, the Greensboro Contemporary Jewish Museum, Elsewhere Museum, and on the 2020 Kilroys List. Their work has been supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, the Florida Council for the Humanities, the New College Foundation, and Headlong Dance Theater, among many others.
Logan gabrielle is a Playwrights Horizons/NYU Directing Mentor, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum teaching artist, Swedish Cottage Marionette Theatre puppeteer, producer-director with Flying Leap Productions, programs and producing consultant with The Neighborhood, and an alumna of the Drama League Directors Project.
Logan gabrielle received their acting training at the Stella Adler Studio for Actor Training and the Headlong Performance Institute. They studied Performance and Religion at New College of Florida, where they served as a Mellon Foundation-funded adjunct theatre faculty before Ron DeSantis' hostile takeover of the school in late 2022.