La Jolla Playhouse
Danniel Ureña is an experienced arts professional currently serving as the Learning and Engagement Coordinator and Associate Producer for the Latinx New Play Festival at La Jolla Playhouse. Responsibilities include processing checks, evaluating new plays and proposals for the WOW festival, and providing administrative support for Common Ground Theater. An Artistic Fellow at Diversionary Theatre, Ureña has also mentored first-generation students at UC San Diego as a Senior Peer Coach. Previous internships include roles at San Diego Repertory Theatre, Kaiser Permanente, and work in various associate positions at Amazon, Regal, and Rubio's. Ureña holds a Bachelor of Arts in Theater and Dance, with a double major and a minor in Chicanx & Latinx Studies from UC San Diego.
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La Jolla Playhouse
The Tony Award-winning La Jolla Playhouse is internationally-renowned for creating some of the most exciting and adventurous work in American theatre, through its new play development initiatives, its innovative Without Walls series, artist commissions and residencies. Currently led by The Rich Family Artistic Director of La Jolla Playhouse and 2017 Tony Award winner Christopher Ashley and Managing Director Debby Buchholz, the Playhouse was founded in 1947 by Gregory Peck, Dorothy McGuire and Mel Ferrer, and reborn in 1983 under the artistic leadership of Des McAnuff. La Jolla Playhouse has had 33 productions transfer to Broadway, garnering 38 Tony Awards, among them the currently-running, Tony Award-Winning COME FROM AWAY and SUMMER: The Donna Summer Musical, along with JERSEY BOYS, MEMPHIS, THE WHO'S TOMMY, BIG RIVER, as well as Billy Crystal’s 700 SUNDAYS and the Pulitzer Prize-winning I AM MY OWN WIFE, both fostered as part of the Playhouse’s Page To Stage Program. Visit LaJollaPlayhouse.org.