Daniel Jáquez is a director, theater-maker and translator of plays who recently relocated from New York to San Diego. He is originally from Cd. Juárez, Chihuahua, México—traditional territory of the Manso, Apache, Jumanos, and Rarámuri people.
Jáquez serves as a member of the Advisory Committee for The Lark's México/U.S. Playwright Exchange Program. He has translated plays by award-winning Mexican playwrights and his translations have been published by NoPassport Press, The Mercurian, and Asymptote. In 2017 and 2019, Jáquez was commissioned by The Old Globe’s Arts Engagement to devise two plays for the City Heights’ community celebration of Día de Muertos.
Jáquez is a member of the Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab, The Latinx Theatre Commons Steering Committee, The Fence, and NoPassport, a Pan-American theatre coalition. He worked as Director and Co-Founder of Unit52 (Intar), Director of INTAR/Jerome Foundation NewWorks Lab, Co-Founder of Calpulli Mexican Dance Company, and Interim Artistic Director of Milagro Theatre (Portland, OR). Jáquez earned an MFA in Directing from the American Repertory Theater/Moscow Art Theater Institute at Harvard University and a BS in Mathematics from the University of Texas.