Daniel Pettrow

About Daniel

Daniel Pettrow is the Director of Performance and Communication Training for Heifetz International Music Institute. He is a Brooklyn-based actor, director, and interdisciplinary artist, and teacher. He frequently focuses on new and experimental creations while fostering collaborations with artists from different disciplines.

Recently, he created and performed the ritual dance-theater creation A Respectable Death at Théâtre National de Bretagne in Rennes, France, and at Center for Performance Research in New York. From January – March 2025, he performed the role of Mark Antony in Julius Caesar at the French National Theaters in Rennes, Lyon, and Paris, France. Daniel created the film and art show Let Us Believe in the Beginning of the Hot Season (in collaboration with Afghan artist Kubra Khademi) which premiered at Fondation Fiminco in Paris, and Collection Lambert in Avignon, France.

In January 2021, Daniel created the short film Wolf and Duck as part of the Guggenheim’s Work and Process Artist Virtual Commissions. For the last twenty years, Daniel has worked closely with renowned French director Arthur Nauzyciel: Mark Antony in Julius Caesar, Bob in Splendid’s, Cal in Black Battles with Dogs, Roberto Zucco in Roberto Zucco, and staged readings of Hetero and Jan Karski: My Name Is Fiction. In 2016, Daniel worked with legendary Italian director Romeo Castellucci, performing in Julius Caesar: Spared Parts. In 2019, Daniel co-created an original dance-theater production Herz Schmerz with Mikhail Baryshnikov, and choreographer John Heginbotham, which had its premiere at Baryshnikov Arts Center.

He is a frequent collaborator with Dance Heginbotham: You Look Like a Fun Guy, Herz Schmerz, The Principles of Uncertainty, and One-Man Show. Daniel also dances the role of “The Wolf” in Isaac Mizrahi’s production of Peter & The Wolf for Guggenheim Works & Process (2012 – present). Daniel is an associate actor with New York City-based experimental theater company The Wooster Group: Hamlet, Vieux Carré, and Who’s Your Dada?. He is a frequent collaborator/director with choreographer Anabella Lenzu: No More Beautiful Dances, The Night That You Stopped Acting, In Pursuit of Happiness, Pacamama, and Sangre & Arena. Film: In Stereo, Sweet Parents, The Cult of Sincerity, The Last Adam, Psychopathia Sexualis, Kathy T, My Uncle Sidney. TV: Red Band Society, Good Eats, Don’t Know Jack, Road Trip.