Brooklyn, Calderón and other improbable combinations. Directing Golden Age theater on both sides of the Atlantic. Meeting with Daniel Alonso Piñero within the Alicante Classical Theater Festival 2025.

Daniel Alonso de Santos is a creative director specializing in Classical Theater. He has worked in New York, Washington D.C, London, Budapest, as well as throughout Spanish geography, exhibiting his Golden Age productions at the Festivals of Almagro, Olmedo, Alcalá de Henares, Los Veranos de la Villa de Madrid, Teatros del Canal, etc.

A graduate in Psychology from the Autonomous University of Madrid, his career is defined by an interdisciplinary perspective that has shaped his approach to theater. For four seasons he was part of the National Company of Classical Theater as an actor, an experience that solidified his connection with the great authors of the Baroque.

In 2024 he was awarded the ATI Prize from New York for Best Theater Director and the Talía Prize from New York for Best Theater Director, for his production La Monja Alférez.

He has collaborated as a teacher and speaker with various universities such as Complutense de Madrid, Europea Miguel de Cervantes, UNED, Sagardoy Business&Law School, and in the Performing Arts degree at Rey Juan Carlos University of Madrid. His work advocates for re-reading classical texts with critical sense, creative freedom and a strong connection with the present.

With this meeting he proposes a journey between centuries, languages and stages: from a corral de comedias to the Manhattan subway. Because the theater audiences of New York also know what it is to dream of justice, identity and honor.