About Daniella

DANIELLA CAGGIANO is a director and intimacy director committed to radically centering queer voices and women’s voices on stage. Her work challenges traditional power structures and explores taboo topics, inviting audiences to sit with discomfort and welcome empathetic vulnerability. 

​Daniella is a current member of Roundabout's Directors Group and a former MTC Directing Fellow, Drama League Resident, and alum of the Lincoln Center Directors Lab. Named one of The Interval’s “Women to Watch”, Daniella has directed or developed work at NYTW, Joe’s Pub, The Tank, MTF, WOW Cafe, HERE, and 54 Below among others. Favorite directing projects include a site-appropriate Fun Home in a funeral home (starring Tony nominee Jenn Colella), Next To Normal, Glass Town, Vinegar Tom (performed with an original Riot Grrrl score), Macbeth, Tumacho (Assistant, dir. Leigh Silverman) and School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play (Associate, dir. Rebecca Taichman). Recent intimacy directing credits include That Pretty Pretty; or, The Rape Play (Brooklyn College) and Zoetrope (Exquisite Corpse, NYTimes Critics Pick).
MFA: The New School, BA: Sarah Lawrence College
​www.daniellacaggiano.com @dfcaggiano