Daniel Kramer has steadily established himself as one of the leading visionary artists of his generation.  His iconoclastic work marries craft, contemporary political, cultural and metaphysical questions, with audacious sometimes arresting Queer-pop aesthetics.  His work strives to ignite inter-community dialogue.  His work is noted with honors and a generous array of international press in Asia, Europe, Australia and America.  As a leading opera and theatre director, he is also well known for his collaborations with leading visual and conceptual artists. His vocabulary celebrates song, dance, circus, ballet, mime, opera, cabaret, theatre, poetry, visual arts, plastiques, bruitism, cruelty and absurdity and classical and contemporary philosophy above all else. 
Daniel has also developed a career in leadership, education and private consulting for fundraising, community arts engagement, recruitment and restructuring arts organizations.  Daniel was Artistic Director of the English National Opera, Creative Associate at the Royal Shakespeare Company, and Associate at the Young Vic and Gate Theatre, London.  He holds masterclasses regularly at universities such as Harvard, Brown, NYU, Guildhall School of Music & Drama, and The Lir at Trinity, Dublin. 

His directing credits include Frank Zappa's 200 Motels (upcoming at Grand Theatre Geneva). Prima la Mamma,  Die Tote Stadt (Deutsche Oper am Rhein). Satyagraha, Nixon in China (Hannover State Opera);  Turandot (Grand Theatre Geneva & Nikikai Opera, Tokyo, designed by TeamLab); Mask of Orpheus (ENO with costumes by Daniel Lismore). Punch & Judy (Grand Theatre Geneva & Young Vic/ENO – South Bank Award Outstanding Opera). War Requiem (ENO, Taiwan and Barcelona, designed by Wolfgang Tillmans and Nasir Mazhar).  La traviata and La Boheme (Theatre Basel). Sadko (Vlaamse & Bratislava Opera). Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare’s Globe). Tristan and Isolde designed by Anish Kapoor (ENO), Pe?lleas et Me?lisande (Mariinsky & Bolshoi Theatre, Golden Mask Awards).  Carmen (Vlaamse Opera & Opera North). Bluebeard’s Castle (ENO, Mariinsky & Bolshoi Theatre – Golden Mask Awards). Pictures from an Exhibition (Sadlers Wells & Young Vic). Tosca (Wermland Opera, Sweden). Angles in America (Headlong National Tour, Glasgow Citizens Theatre, Northern Stage, Lowry Manchester, Cambridge, Lyric Hammersmith, TMA Awards).  Woyzeck (St. Ann’s Warehouse NY and Gate Theatre London). Bent starring Alan Cumming (West End). Hair (Gate Theatre London). Through the Leaves (Southwark Playhouse & West End). Kaspar, Angels in America and Pelleas et Melisande, Burg Theatre, Vienna.

As a playwright/librettist, Daniel he has two NYC world premieres soon to open in 2026: "Square-Off" at Carnegie Hall for voice, interactive kinetic sculpture and orchestra; and the full length opera, "The Riddle" - an end of America fantasy that retraces the myth of Hagar, Sarah and Isaac into the future.  Both world premieres are composed by the American-Israeli composer Tamar Muskal.